GoKawiilAlphabet Stock Drops Toward Record $500 Billion One-Day Loss
Alphabet shares fell sharply after Q3 earnings showed its AI Mode search feature generates less revenue than traditional search, even though overall search revenue rose 12% year-over-year to $63.25 billion. At its lowest point, Alphabet lost roughly $524 billion in market value, the second-largest single-day loss for a US-listed company ever, behind only Nvidia's drop in January 2025. Bespoke Investment Group noted it marks Alphabet's steepest post-earnings decline since going public in 2004.
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The reaction suggests investors are worried that Alphabet's push into AI-driven search could cannibalize the lucrative ad revenue underpinning its core business, even as usage grows. This drop adds to a broader pattern of extreme single-day stock swings this year, which analysts say reflects heightened market volatility around AI-related bets. Alphabet has now lost about $1.4 trillion in value since its peak in May, a scale of swing that could intensify scrutiny of how tech giants monetize AI features.
- Alphabet's AI Mode search reportedly generates less revenue per search than traditional search.
- The stock's one-day loss of about $524 billion is the second-largest ever for a US company, after Nvidia's January 2025 drop.
- Alphabet has lost roughly $1.4 trillion in market value since its May peak amid a year of unusually volatile stock swings.
Source: news.slashdot.org, 2026-10-29
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