The Nasdaq 100 fell 6.4% in one day. Here is what drove it
Two days after the midterms, investors sold the companies building AI data centers, and chip stocks took the hardest hit.
Wednesday, November 11, 2026
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Two days after the midterms, investors sold the companies building AI data centers, and chip stocks took the hardest hit.
The reported round would roughly triple the value of Thinking Machines Lab, with Nvidia in talks to invest about half.
An October 2026 release let code written for Nvidia hardware run on Google's processors with a one-line change.
The September 2026 agreement was the AI company's third large infrastructure contract of the year, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The August 2026 agreement paid an AI coding startup for its technology without buying the company.
The Vera CPU, shown in June 2026, extended the chipmaker from graphics processors into the other half of the server.
The multiyear deal was announced in February 2026, the same day Meta broke ground on a $10 billion data center in Indiana.
The chipmaker beat Wall Street's expectations in May 2025, extending the run that made it the market's AI bellwether.
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