$80B AI Stock Crash: Why the Market Turned on the AI Boom
📉 $80 Billion Vanished in One Day — Is the AI Boom in Trouble? Co-produced by Daniel Aharonoff and DigitalDan Imagine waking up to discover that $80 billion — more money than most countries' entire economies — just vanished overnight. Not in a heist. Not in a hack. In the stock market, in a single trading session. That's exactly what happened on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. As the chief editor of mindburst.ai, I've watched the AI boom inflate for years — and this week, I watched it spring its first serious leak. AI stocks just suffered their worst day since July, and some of the market's biggest darlings fell off a cliff. So what actually happened? And should the rest of us — the people who just use AI, not trade it — care? Short answer: yes. Let me walk you through it in plain English. What's the Big Deal? The $80B AI Stock Crash, Explained Every story has a spark. This one started with three little letters: C-P-I — the Consumer Price Index, America's...