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Tesla posted a miss that rattled even the bulls — earnings came in thirty-eight percent below expectations, with weak automotive margins doing the damage. Musk shrugged it off, but investors are left weighing whether the growth story justifies a valuation that's increasingly disconnected from the core business.
Zooming out, that miss lands against a broader backdrop of tech pressure. The Nasdaq-one hundred has fallen roughly eleven percent from its recent highs, officially entering correction territory. Historically, corrections of this magnitude have resolved higher within six to twelve months, though the path there is rarely clean, and macro headwinds aren't cooperating right now.
On the security front, Anthropic told Congress that a Chinese artificial intelligence firm systematically extracted knowledge from its Claude model using millions of targeted prompts — essentially reverse-engineering proprietary AI through the front door. It's a stark reminder that in the AI race, the vulnerabilities aren't always in the code, they're in the interface.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
