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The Great AI Divide: Why Wall Street Rewarded Meta’s Pragmatism While Punishing Microsoft’s Ambition
The final week of January 2026 marked a watershed moment for the technology sector, as the long-anticipated "AI reckoning" finally arrived for the market’s biggest players. On January 28, 2026, two of the world's most influential companies, Meta Platforms (NASDAQ: META) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: