Amazon.com, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Alphabet Inc.

Oracle Corporation

Investor demand for U.S. investment-grade bonds is four times the size of offerings this year

Amazon has launched the largest bond offering in history for the sake of spending on AI

Microsoft Corporation

Oracle, the owner of cloud services and data centers for AI, plans to cut thousands of employees in various departments, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-05/oracle-layoffs-to-impact-thousands-in-ai-cash-crunch">reports</a> citing sources. The company needs to optimize spending against the background of a sharp increase in spending on infrastructure for AI. This spending has already forced it to significantly increase its debt load. Investors liked the new way - the shares rose in price amid a general sell-off in the market.

Oracle is preparing massive employee layoffs. Money is needed for data centers for AI

Apple Inc.

Apple has unveiled a new MacBook Neo laptop, which costs $599 in the US - like a "budget" iPhone 17e. The novelty will strengthen Apple's presence in the segment of budget devices: the company expects to compete with Windows-based PCs and Chromebooks in the category of more affordable models for mass consumers, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-04/apple-launches-599-macbook-neo-threatening-windows-pc-market">writes</a>.

Apple has revealed the $599 MacBook Neo. It will increase competition with Microsoft and Google

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc.

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Zscaler, Inc.

Intuit Inc.

At the same time, bets against software stocks reached the highest level since the 2008 crisis

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Citigroup Inc.

Visa Inc.

Bank of America Corporation

Mastercard Incorporated

Morgan Stanley strategists believe the excessive sell-off in stocks amid concerns around artificial intelligence is creating opportunities for "selective investors." The bank recommends looking for the next "AI market leaders" - fast-growing companies that could benefit from lower valuations and accelerating adoption of AI technology.

Morgan Stanley calls AI panic a chance for selective investors. What's his advice?

Minimax-wp

NVIDIA Corporation

DeepSeek may unveil its newest AI model in February - a year after its other release caused the U.S. market to collapse

Anthropic accused DeepSeek and AI tigers from China of training on its Claude model

International Business Machines Corporation

Walmart Inc.

One of the blows to the market came from a Citrini Research report claiming that the AI boom could unleash unemployment as high as 10%

A new wave of soft-apocalypse and fears over duties: US indices lost more than 1%

Berkshire Hathaway Inc.

Caterpillar Inc.

Waste Management, Inc.

Canadian National Railway Company

Bill Gates' fund <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1166559/000110465926016458/0001104659-26-016458-index.htm">made</a> only two changes to its portfolio last quarter: reducing stakes in Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway, according to its report on Form 13F. The investor's strategy remains concentrated: the fund has shares of 23 companies under management, but more than 80% of its capital is allocated to just five issuers.

Almost no change: the Bill Gates Foundation sold only two shares last quarter

Two tech giants, Amazon and Microsoft, are working on creating their own marketplaces for AI training content. They could become intermediaries in a marketplace where publishers can legally sell data for training and use by algorithms. Why would they want to do this?

Amazon and Microsoft are working to create marketplaces for AI training. Why they need it

Cathie Wood's flagship fund <a href="https://oninvest.com/article/glavnoe-k-utru-nvidia-vysla-iz-kapitala-arm-fond-keti-vud-v-zataznom-spade">is experiencing the</a> longest decline in its history, having lost more than 50% over the past five years. But Wood, famed for her optimistic vision of disruptive innovation, isn't giving up. In a new video podcast, she <a href="https://youtu.be/HiX6AxmF500?si=-TsKaIMQR-_E8vxX">revealed</a> that she doesn't share the market's fears about the AI sector. And while more conservative investors are reducing their positions in tech companies, the head of ARK Invest is using volatility to center her portfolio around the most promising assets.

"It's only 1996 on the market now": how does Cathie Wood invest in the "software apocalypse"?

Arm Holdings plc

Nvidia finally exited Arm (one of the world's leading fabless processor architecture developers for mobile devices and servers), in parallel extending its multi-year partnership with Meta to supply millions of graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) for AI datacenters. Microsoft announced plans to invest $50 billion in AI development in the Global South. About these and other topics - in our review of key events by the morning of February 18.