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Equities closed in the red Tuesday as a broad selloff in chipmakers and artificial intelligence names dragged the major indices lower. The Nasdaq one hundred led the decline, falling nearly one point seven percent, while the S and P five hundred shed roughly seven tenths of a percent and the Dow gave back just over two tenths. The move reflects persistent anxiety around AI valuations and rate-sensitive growth stocks.
Speaking of AI hardware, Cerebras is fighting for relevance after a disappointing post-IPO stretch. The company is now staking its recovery on a new chip architecture it believes will outperform traditional graphics processing units as AI agents scale up. Whether that thesis holds depends on enterprise adoption cycles that remain early and unpredictable.
On the earnings front, Baidu reported second-quarter two thousand twenty six results, with investors watching closely for signals on the company's AI Cloud momentum and advertising revenue trends in a still-uneven Chinese consumer environment. Baidu's performance carries weight as a bellwether for both domestic Chinese tech demand and the broader competitive landscape in large language model deployment.
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