Micron Technology, Inc.

NVIDIA Corporation

Broadcom Inc.

The company is building mega-factories in New York and Idaho to reduce the technology gap between memory chips and AI infrastructure

Micron is taking over the US: chipmaker to invest $150 billion in factories due to AI memory shortage

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

Paramount Skydance Corporation

BHP Group Limited

Wheaton Precious Metals Corp.

The Walt Disney Company

Apple Inc.

Tri Pointe Homes, Inc.

Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc.

Coinbase Global, Inc.

Pinterest, Inc.

Expedia Group, Inc.

Daily review and forecast of events on the U.S. stock market from Mikhail Denislamov, Deputy Director of Freedom Capital Markets Research.

Morning in New York: quotes are looking downward

Walmart Inc.

Exxon Mobil Corporation

Johnson & Johnson

Microsoft Corporation

Amazon.com, Inc.

Investment capital is flowing into chip manufacturing, retail and oil companies

Microsoft and Amazon stocks have lost nearly $1 trillion in capitalization. Where are investors going?

Union Pacific Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Equinix, Inc.

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

Last week was the worst week for the S&amp;P 500 since November 2025, losing 1.39% in five days, the Nasdaq Composite was down 2.1% and the Dow Jones was down 1.23%. In February, one of the reasons for the storm in the markets was a reassessment of the prospects of entire industries because of the development of AI. For investors, it's now a technology that must actually prove its ability to be profitable. What should they bet on now?

The market has experienced a wave of selling because of AI. Who will benefit from companies' revised valuations?

The world's largest mining company is focusing on copper mining instead of cheaper iron ore

BHP's top earnings item for the first time was copper due to AI. The stock jumped to a record high

Spotify Technology S.A.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Danaher Corporation

Masimo Corporation

Medical company Danaher is preparing a $10 billion deal to buy Masimo, strengthening its position in the fast-growing medical monitoring market. Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are participating in the Pentagon's competition to create voice-controlled autonomous drone swarms, bringing them into a new, more sensitive field of AI weapons. On these and other topics - in our roundup of key developments for the morning of February 17.

Main by morning: Apple competes with YouTube and Spotify, Alibaba has a new AI model

Meituan

Kuaishou Technology

JD.com, Inc.

Cult shorts Michael Burry <a href="https://substack.com/chat/6819723/post/44f8dd38-0639-4271-a419-a0e8f399d219">said</a> on his Cassandra Unchained blog that he is holding shares in three Chinese companies investing in artificial intelligence, pending the release of a new AI model startup DeepSeek.

DeepSeek is cooking up a new AI model. What does a Big Short investor do with a portfolio?

Airbus SE

Whether the turbulence in the markets caused by the development of artificial intelligence-based tools will continue will be the main question for Wall Street this week, Yahoo Finance <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-earnings-spending-data-and-more-ai-disruptions-what-to-watch-this-week-125712762.html#:~:text=Whether%20these%20disruptions%20continue%20will%20be%20the%20theme%20most%20closely%20tracked%20by%20investors%20in%20the%20week%20ahead.">writes</a>. In the previous two weeks, investors sold off shares of companies from the software, real estate, financial services and logistics sectors amid concerns that the traditional business models of these players will be threatened.

US inflation, Alibaba and Walmart earnings: what investors need to know this week

Netflix, Inc.

Alibaba shares led the selloff in China's technology sector after the Pentagon put some of the country's largest companies on a list of firms that promote the military. Warner Bros. Discovery is discussing a possible resumption of talks with Paramount amid a deal already signed with Netflix. The AI boom is triggering a structural shortage of DRAM memory, driving up prices and threatening the margins of tech giants. These and other topics are in our review of key events for the morning of February 16.

Main by morning: Pentagon crashes Alibaba stock, battle over Warner Bros. continues

Salesforce, Inc.

ServiceNow, Inc.

SAP SE

Dassault Systemes SE

Tata Consultancy Services Limited

Infosys Limited

Experian plc

London Stock Exchange Group plc

Blackstone Inc.

KKR & Co. Inc.

Blue Owl Capital Inc.

The Charles Schwab Corporation

Raymond James Financial, Inc.

CBRE Group, Inc.

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated

In February, one market crash after another occurred in several sectors whose business model threatens to be undermined by AI, from software makers to wealth managers. "It's certainly a case of shoot first and ask questions later," Kerry Craig, global market strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-02-11/jpmorgan-s-craig-on-trading-opportunities-in-ai-selloff-video">told</a> Bloomberg TV. Are the market's fears fair?

In February, stocks collapsed in several sectors at once. Investors traded "on fears of AI"

<i>Ilya Chernetsky, creator of the personal finance accounting application CoinKeeper, believes that with the help of AI, everyone can become an IT specialist in the near future. He expressed his opinion after reading a sensational essay by technology entrepreneur Matt Schumer about the threats artificial intelligence poses to people. Oninvest publishes a slightly edited version of Chernetsky's post in his <a href="http://t.me/beyondcoinkeeper">Telegram channel</a>. </i>

"Everyone will be an IT guy": entrepreneur Ilya Chernetsky discusses Matt Schumer's essay

Artificial intelligence (AI)