By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Asian stocks slipped on Friday and were poised for a second straight weekly drop as investors fretted about elevated energy prices, bond market ructions and the huge sums needed to fund AI investment.

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Nvidia and Oracle stock fell on Thursday afternoon after a report that OpenAI’s annualized revenue as of September was around $20 billion lower than prior estimates.

Companies at the forefront of artificial intelligence in Asia, Europe and the United States posted declines after tech leaders expressed worries about the safety of “frontier” A.I. technology.

Fed minutes now point to a gentler path for rate hikes, and that can quickly reshuffle which U.S. growth and technology stocks investors pay attention to and which get ignored. When money is not bracing for a rapid tightening cycle,