America shoots down Iranian drone; tech stocks fall on news of AI tool, and more

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  America's Navy shot down an Iranian drone that it said, quote,

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  aggressively approached the USS Abraham Lincoln,

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  an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, with unclear intent.

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  Last week,

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  Donald Trump sent an armada to the Middle East and has repeatedly threatened to strike Iran

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  if it does not agree to new limits on its nuclear program and to cut ties with regional proxy groups.

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  Tech stocks fell after Anthropic, an artificial intelligence firm,

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  launched an AI tool that can automate some legal work.

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  Shares in legal and data services companies plummeted first.

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  That of Thompson Reuters, one such firm, sank by nearly 16 percent.

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  Then software stocks more broadly fell.

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  The Tech Heavy Nasdaq Index closed down by 1.4 percent,

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  recovering slightly from a steeper 2.4 percent drop.

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