Tech stocks today: Meta, Google face legal reckoning, OpenAI narrows its focus

Tech stocks sank on Thursday amid uncertainty over US-Iran talks and as a landmark trial verdict opened social media companies to greater liability for what happens on their platforms. On Wednesday, a Los Angeles jury found Alphabet’s (GOOG, GOOGL) YouTube and Meta (META) liable for harm done to a young user. The jurors ordered the companies to pay the lead plaintiff $3 million in compensatory damages in the first-of-its-kind case. Meanwhile, investors continue to evaluate Nvidia’s AI offerings after th ...