Inflation anxiety drags on AI stocks for a second day as markets point to a mixed open

Tech stocks appeared to be headed for another sell-off before the bell with inflation anxiety hammering that high-growth sector ahead of the U.S. earnings season.Futures for the S&P 500 fell 0.2% before the opening bell, while futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.3%. Nasdaq futures tumbled 1%.Artificial intelligence stocks were down again after taking a beating a day earlier.CoreWeave, which offers AI computing power to customers over the cloud, fell another 3.8% early after tumbling 15.5% a day earlier, its worst day since February. GE Vernova, which is hoping to electrify power-hungry data centers, dropped 3.2% after a 6.2% decline on Wednesday and Oracle sank 1.6%, adding to its nearly 9% loss in the previous session.Chipmaker and AI darling Nvidia fell 1.6% in early trading, as did Broadcom, while Advanced Micro Devices retreated 3.1%.The yield on 10-year bonds eased to 5.09% from 5.32%, but remains elevated. Higher bond yields that have made borrowing more expensive