AI-linked stocks slide as rising borrowing costs squeeze indebted firms

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Rising interest rates slam AI-linked stocks, intensifying financial strain on indebted companies such as CoreWeave and Oracle.

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Reuters highlights a sharp drop in AI-linked stocks after rising borrowing costs put pressure on highly indebted firms, calling out CoreWeave and Oracle as examples. The clip focuses on how higher interest rates make debt servicing more expensive for companies that ramped spending to chase AI demand, and it links those financing strains directly to recent share-price weakness. The visual emphasis on balance-sheet risk, not product weakness, is the striking thread: markets are punishing leverage amid uncertainty about how quickly AI spending will convert to free cash flow.