The AI trade has gone from Wall Street's most crowded... to one of its most washed-out. Credit is cracking. Positioning has been flushed. Has the pendulum swung too far?

The AI boom just entered its biggest stress test yet. Here's why semiconductors may be the most important chart in the market.

Shares in AI-related companies have been falling as competition from China, rogue AI agents, complex financing deals and vast capital expenditures stress the markets’ capacity to…