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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: The Tech Selloff Accelerates

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: President Trump boosts quantum-computing development with two executive orders. And Oracle says it has cut about 21,000 jobs over the past year as it invests in AI. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, June 23rd. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street

0:36.5

Journal. The tech sell-off is accelerating,

0:39.2

with the NASDAQ composite tumbling more than 2% today. That's as the artificial intelligence rally

0:44.1

has gone into reverse amid jitters over AI companies' heavy spending and looming Fed rate increases.

0:50.1

Alphabet, Nvidia, Oracle, and Tesla all opened sharply lower, following steep losses in big tech stocks yesterday.

0:57.1

Chipmaker Micron Technology slid more than 11%.

1:00.0

President Trump is accelerating his efforts to boost the quantum computing industry with a pair of executive orders aimed at speeding the development of the advanced computers and mitigating the security risks they present.

1:11.9

One of the orders directs federal agencies to work with the private sector and academics

1:15.7

to deploy a quantum computer powerful enough for scientific research by 2028,

1:20.4

while the other instructs government agencies and security experts to prepare for quantum systems

1:25.4

that can evade standard encryption faster than previously

1:28.4

expected. Quantum computers are capable of solving problems much faster than traditional supercomputers,

1:34.4

making them a growing priority for countries around the world. And Oracle cut about 21,000 jobs last

1:41.0

year as it continued to develop its AI business and invested heavily in data

1:44.6

centers. According to its latest annual report, Oracle's headcount decreased by 13%. The cloud

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