Corning Crashes 13%! AI Optical Collateral Damage?
Corning plunged 13.6%, becoming one of the clearest casualties of Meta's cloud computing report, as markets feared that hyperscaler in-house AI infrastructure buildouts would crimp demand for data center fiber and connectivity components. Corning's decline outpaced many chip stocks, making it a defining name in today's selloff. With panic selling overriding the long-term optical infrastructure expansion thesis, is this 13.6% drop an overreaction, or an early warning that AI hardware demand has peaked?