Artificial intelligence-linked shares fell on Tuesday, in lead-up to AI bellwether Nvidia's quarterly earnings, which could offer clarity on demand and justify the sector's lofty valuations. Technology stocks globally sold off this week after a TD Cowen analyst note said Microsoft has canceled leases for sizeable data center capacity in the U.

Nvidia has led the artificial intelligence boom to become one of the stock market’s biggest companies, as tech giants continue to spend heavily on the company’s chips and data centers needed to train

Nvidia had a rocky start to the year. That’s done little to dull its popularity among individual investors, many of whom are positioning for the shares to rally after Wednesday’s earnings report. The graphics-chip maker lost nearly $600 billion in market value in a single session in late January when news of a lower-cost artificial-intelligence model from Chinese company DeepSeek temporarily rattled investors’ confidence in the AI trade.