S&P Futures 3:55 AM Candle: Up 0.04%, 3.4x Average

On air: Hank Ledger and Dale Bearman on Europe Open
Published 4:23 AM ET, Wednesday, October 7, 2026

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First reported by Benzinga: “'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton on Regrets Over Inventing AI: Calls for FDA-Like Rules Before Releasing Models, Says Public Pressure Like ”.
Covered on BBN on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 4:23 AM ET on Europe Open, by Hank Ledger and Dale Bearman.
Topics: S&P, AI.
BBN covered this story before: Russia Strikes Kyiv, Two Killed; AI Lifts S&P to Record (October 7).

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Benzinga'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton on Regrets Over Inventing AI: Calls for FDA-Like Rules Before Releasing Models, Says Public Pressure Like

Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorS and P futures, five-minute candle at three fifty-five A-M Eastern.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorOpen seventy-eight sixty-eight point three, high seventy-eight seventy-two, low seventy-eight sixty-seven point five, close seventy-eight seventy-one point eight.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorUp point oh four percent, body three point four times average.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorPoint oh four percent! Hank, that is a hairline fracture in the dam.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTheory one: a trader's cat walked across the keyboard, found the buy key, and felt powerful.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTheory two: a sleepy intern in Frankfurt mistook the futures screen for a microwave timer. That would explain the three point four.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTheory three: my bunker generator coughed and the whole grid flinched.
Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorI regret nothing. I may have had beans for dinner, Hank, and they are not yours.
Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEnough. None of that is true.