{"id":211893,"date":"2026-02-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/wall-street-is-searching-for-ai-winners-and-losers\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:45:17","slug":"wall-street-is-searching-for-ai-winners-and-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/wall-street-is-searching-for-ai-winners-and-losers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street is searching for AI winners and losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/10\/markets\/ai-investing-stock-market-companies\">Wall Street is searching for AI winners and losers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/10\/markets\/ai-investing-stock-market-companies\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/10\/markets\/ai-investing-stock-market-companies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-10 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <span class=\"source__location vossi-source__location\" data-editable=\"location\">New York<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlfj6zh6003r27p60uye0ybi@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            For years, anything exposed to artificial intelligence was a hot<strong> <\/strong>trade on Wall Street. But today\u2019s investors are more selective, demanding stronger evidence that companies are poised to benefit from the AI boom.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlfojd7o0000356pg2cxgogv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Wall Street is debating whether software companies can protect their market share from AI startups\u2019 new tools. Investors have grown skeptical of Big Tech\u2019s plans to build data centers. But at the same time, they\u2019ve continued betting on the chipmakers that power the AI boom.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlfj8dds0005356pk7hduqkp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Some software companies have emerged as potential AI losers, while hardware companies (think semiconductor chipmakers) continue to be AI winners. Popular exchange-traded funds highlight the divergence: The iShares expanded tech-software ETF is down 20% this year, while the VanEck semiconductor ETF is up 13%.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlfqsfkr0000356pwdgz04oo@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe rising tide surrounding AI was lifting a lot of boats,\u201d Steve Sosnick, chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, previously told CNN. \u201cNow it\u2019s forcing Wall Street to be much more selective and really decide who are the winners and losers. And that\u2019s going to require a lot more detailed analysis, rather than just sort of riding the momentum train.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlfma59r000d356pu0ptoqc4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A sell-off swept through software stocks last week after Anthropic \u2014 one of the world\u2019s biggest AI startups \u2014 released new plug-ins for its Claude chatbot. The plug-ins improved the chatbot\u2019s ability to do work-oriented tasks and stoked concerns that such AI tools could reduce businesses\u2019 need for their existing software subscriptions.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlfmb0a4000g356p1s3j6fjg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Investors are split on whether the sell-off was overdone. But software companies will need to evolve to co-exist with improvements in AI, said Angelo Zino, tech analyst at CFRA Research.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmlfmc4pz000j356puzfsv1o4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Software companies that can leverage their own proprietary data and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/10\/markets\/ai-investing-stock-market-companies\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street is searching for AI winners and losers https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/02\/10\/markets\/ai-investing-stock-market-companies Publish Date: 2026-02-10 05:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-2260713938.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-211893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211895,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211893\/revisions\/211895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}