Slumping AI stocks drag down markets around the world

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Slumping AI stocks drag down markets around the world AP News

Why slumping matters

This development in slumping, stocks, drag, markets, world matters because it alters the baseline assumptions that AP News and others have been working from.

What led here

Earlier reporting from AP News and comparable outlets sketched the conditions that would eventually produce an event like this.

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