The three major U.S. stock indices opened lower, with the Dow Jones down 0.27%

According to Gate market data, at the opening of the US stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 0.27%, the S&P 500 index fell by 0.39%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index fell by 0.5%. Microsoft rose by 1.1%, with news that Anthropic is in talks with it to use artificial intelligence chips. US Rare Earths rose by 2.7%, as the company was selected for the US Department of Energy's pilot rare earth processing project. IBM rose by 3%, as the company will receive $1 billion in US government funding to promote the development of quantum computing. NIO rose by 5%, with first-quarter revenue increasing by 112.2% year-on-year.