AI 16 February 2026 - 19 February 2026

New York, February 17, 2026, 15:34 ET — Regular session CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc shares dropped roughly 4.4% to $410.61 Tuesday afternoon, after hitting a session low of $400.18. The cybersecurity company previously closed at $429.64, and earlier in the day the stock reached $428.72.

New York, February 17, 2026, 05:36 — Premarket Alphabet’s Class A shares slipped 0.6% to $303.82 in premarket action Tuesday, following a Friday close of $305.72.

New York, Feb 17, 2026, 05:37 EST — Premarket Microsoft Corp hovered close to $401 in premarket trading Tuesday, with the shares barely budging as U.S. investors returned from the holiday—and the AI payback argument persisted across the big tech names. Microsoft inched down 0.1% to $401.32. Apple, Nvidia and Alphabet all edged lower ahead of the open as well.

NEW YORK, Feb 16, 2026, 15:23 EST — Market closed Nvidia said in a blog post that new tests of its Blackwell Ultra platform showed up to 50 times higher inference throughput per megawatt than its prior Hopper generation, translating into as much as 35 times lower “cost per token” — the basic unit of text AI models process. The company said cloud providers including Microsoft, CoreWeave and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are deploying its GB300 NVL72 systems for low-latency, long-context uses such as coding assistants and other “agentic” tools that can take steps to complete tasks. “As inference moves to the center of AI production, long-context performance and token efficiency become critical,” said Chen Goldberg, senior vice president of engineering