Tech companies led a sharp sell-off across Asia on Wednesday as investors grow increasingly worried about an AI bubble following a rally this year that has seen valuations hit record highs.

Global markets have soared this year as an eye-watering flood of cash piled into companies linked to artificial intelligence, including US titans Nvidia, Amazon and Apple as well as Asian firms Samsung and Alibaba.

But despite strong earnings releases in recent quarters, traders have started questioning the wisdom of chasing ever-higher prices, with cash mostly funnelled into a handful of big-name companies.

The gains have also been helped by an easing of US trade tensions and expectations that the Federal Reserve will continue to cut interest rates into the new year.

But last week's warning from th

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