Tech stocks decline as AI spending concerns grow

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Tech stocks decline as AI spending concerns grow

Oct 30, 6 AM ET to Oct 31, 7 AM ET

25outlets carried it
🫏13 · 6 · 6🐘left · center · right
1 dayon the front pages
24front pages at once, at its peak
20 minof TV captions
26radio newscasts
54people retold it online
2 of 2parts of a saga

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Oct 30, 6 AM ETfirst on a front page: Reuters
Oct 30, 7 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 30, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 30, 5 PM ETpeak: on 24 front pages
Oct 31, 5 AM ETretold online by 54 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 30, 6 AM to Oct 31, 7 AM ET (peak 24), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

2 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word

HuffPost, The Washington Times

💬 Quoted

“monster AI splurge”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 12 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (3 wordings): “US futures fall as Amazon, Intel and Alphabet weigh on Wall Street” → “Wall Street drops to its worst day since June after the sell-off for tech stocks deepens”
BBC (3 wordings): “Google value plunges by $500bn as AI fears rattle Wall Street” → “US tech stocks see sharp falls as AI spending nears $1tn”
Bloomberg (3 wordings): “Nasdaq Futures Fall as Tech Struggles on Earnings: Markets Wrap” → “Nasdaq 100 Falls 2.5% as Earnings Deepen Tech Rout: Markets Wrap”
CNBC (10 wordings): “Nasdaq-100 futures fall 2% as Amazon and Intel tumble after earnings” → “Stock market rocked as investors dump tech shares; Nasdaq suffers worst day since June: Live updates”
CNN (3 wordings): “Wall Street sell-off deepens as investors question returns on ‘monster AI splurge’ The latest earnings from Big Tech reignited concerns that the massive spending on AI may not deliver the returns that investors expect” → “Analysis Nasdaq’s worst month in over a year comes with a message to AI companies The stock market is turning its back on Big Tech. But the stock market doesn't get the final say.”
Financial Times (2 wordings): “US tech stocks tumble as earnings stoke AI spending fears” → “US tech stocks tumble as concerns over AI spending intensify”
Fortune (2 wordings): “Amazon shares sink as spending on AI overshadows growth in cloud unit” → “Fears over $828 billion AI capex spending spree help erase $1 trillion in market value”
NBC News (4 wordings): “Tech stocks set to wipe out over $1 trillion in value as concerns about AI boom deepen” → “Investors worry about when AI spending will pay off”
New York Post (2 wordings): “Nasdaq plummets 2% as Amazon, Intel and Reddit become latest victims of AI fears” → “Nasdaq plummets 3% as Amazon, Intel and Reddit become latest victims of AI fears”
New York Times (2 wordings): “Tech Stocks Tumble, Putting Pressure on Broader Market” → “Tech Stocks See Worst Day Since June, Pressuring Broader Market”
Reuters (8 wordings): “Nasdaq futures tumble as Amazon, Intel results deepen AI spending woes” → “Nasdaq faces $2 trillion wipeout in October as AI spending fears deepen - Reuters”
The Epoch Times (2 wordings): “Nasdaq Falls More Than 2 Percent as Amazon, Intel Earnings Weigh on Markets” → “Nasdaq Logs Worst Month in More than a Year as Amazon, Intel Earnings Deepen Tech Sell-Off”

Every outlet's first headline (25), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Wall Street Drops To Its Worst Day Since June After The Sell-Off For Tech Stocks Deepens Oct 30, 5 PM ET
The Guardian Investors turn on Google owner Alphabet after profit miss, ad slowdown and high spending Oct 28, 8 PM ET
AP US futures fall as Amazon, Intel and Alphabet weigh on Wall Street Oct 30, 9 AM ET
Axios Amazon shares sink as it spends heavily on AI Oct 29, 5 PM ET
CBS News Tech stocks crushed as Nasdaq tumbles nearly 1,000 points Oct 30, 3 PM ET
CNBC Nasdaq-100 futures fall 2% as Amazon and Intel tumble after earnings Oct 30, 5 AM ET
CNN Wall Street sell-off deepens as investors question returns on ‘monster AI splurge’ The latest earnings from Big Tech reignited concerns that the massive spending on AI may not deliver the returns that investors expect Oct 30, 2 PM ET
Los Angeles Times A historic drop for Alphabet’s stock drags market lower Oct 29, 6 PM ET
NBC News Tech stocks set to wipe out over $1 trillion in value as concerns about AI boom deepen Oct 30, 1 PM ET
New York Times Tech Stocks Tumble, Putting Pressure on Broader Market Oct 30, 2 PM ET
Semafor Amazon and Intel post worse-than-expected results Oct 30, 7 AM ET
The Independent $2 trillion wiped from tech stocks amid artificial intelligence spending fears Oct 30, 1 PM ET
Yahoo News Stocks plunge as Amazon, Intel and Alphabet fuel a broad tech sell-off Oct 30, 3 PM ET
BBC Google value plunges by $500bn as AI fears rattle Wall Street Oct 29, 6 PM ET
Bloomberg Nasdaq Futures Fall as Tech Struggles on Earnings: Markets Wrap Oct 29, 8 PM ET
Financial Times US tech stocks tumble as earnings stoke AI spending fears Oct 30, 11 AM ET
Fortune Amazon shares sink as spending on AI overshadows growth in cloud unit Oct 29, 6 PM ET
MarketWatch The selloff in tech stocks is shifting into overdrive Oct 30, 5 PM ET
Reuters Nasdaq futures tumble as Amazon, Intel results deepen AI spending woes Oct 30, 6 AM ET
Just the News Tech stocks set to lose $1 trillion in value as skepticism of AI investement returns grows Oct 30, 10 AM ET
The Epoch Times Nasdaq Falls More Than 2 Percent as Amazon, Intel Earnings Weigh on Markets Oct 30, 12 PM ET
The Washington Times U.S. futures fall as Amazon, Intel and Alphabet weigh on Wall Street Oct 30, 10 AM ET
IJR Alphabet Plunge Weighs on US Stocks Oct 30, 1 PM ET
New York Post Nasdaq plummets 2% as Amazon, Intel and Reddit become latest victims of AI fears Oct 30, 11 AM ET
Newsmax Futures Sink as Amazon, Intel Weigh on Wall Street Oct 30, 10 AM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

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what the fact-checkers looked into

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the running story it belongs to

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