OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the best companies and investment opportunities "are almost never the ones that look really popular," adding that following the trend can yield okay results, but to "do spectacularly well," one must do things that not everybody else is doing, and such contrarian bets can ultimately prove transformative. In other news, the last photo of mountaineer Nirmal "Nims" Purja and his team surfaced online, showing them moments before a deadly avalanche on Broad Peak; the photo was taken from the base camp on July 30 and showed the team climbing toward the 8,051-metre summit before all 10 members were killed. Sun Pharma issued a confidential letter to distributors asking them to recall multiple eye drop products in India amid a contamination scare, including Depopred2ML, Brinolar (BKC Free) and Brinzotim Eye Drops 5ML, and to discontinue distribution and "immediately cease billing" as it withdraws all existing stocks "on priority." A stock rout worth trillions of dollars in South Korea's KOSPI rattled traders, with one trader who began in May saying, "I've engraved two rules...Don't invest in Korean stock market [and] follow the first rule," while another referred to President Lee Jae-myung's market reform, saying, "The government put fuel into the fire." Hackers exploiting a bug in crypto wallet Coldcard launched a third wave of attack on