AI computing stock panic over Meta cloud rumour ‘erroneous’, analysts say

A panic over excess computing capacity for artificial intelligence was “erroneous”, according to a report by research firm SemiAnalysis, after a global sell-off erased billions of dollars in value from semiconductor stocks on Thursday. Spooked investors interpreted a potential pivot by Meta Platforms into cloud services as a sign of an AI hardware glut, as they feared the US tech giant was preparing to flood the market with unused graphics processing units. Shares of alternative cloud companies.