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• Democrats sweep the midterms and take both chambers of Congress• Bomb threats divert at least 19 passenger flights across Europe• Wall Street reverses as AI chip stocks sink the Nasdaq• Vance blames the Iran war for the Republican wipeout• OpenAI rolls out faster image model that also makes GIFs• Pungent gas over Mars fissures hints the planet is still volcanically active• Democrats sweep the midterms and take both chambers of Congress• Bomb threats divert at least 19 passenger flights across Europe• Wall Street reverses as AI chip stocks sink the Nasdaq• Vance blames the Iran war for the Republican wipeout• OpenAI rolls out faster image model that also makes GIFs• Pungent gas over Mars fissures hints the planet is still volcanically active

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AI stocks slide as Nasdaq 100 falls about 4.5% in late morning

NBC’s noon update reports a rebound from steeper losses, but US technology stocks remain sharply lower.

  • ■Nasdaq 100 fell as much as 6.2% before trading about 4.5% lower
  • ■The S&P 500 was down 3.1% in the cited late-morning snapshot
  • ■Investors are questioning returns on large AI investments

7h ago · 1 min brief