AI Came for the Truckers, Cisco Lost 12%, Apple Can't Ship Siri, and the Dow Dropped 669 – Market Breakdown #177
AI disruption panic spread to logistics, real estate, and ad tech. C.H. Robinson fell 15%, AppLovin cratered 20%, Apple lost $202 billion, Cisco dropped 12%, and the Dow shed 669 points.
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Issue #177 | February 12, 2026
🔥 Headlines & Hysteria (powered by Forked Feed)
AI Disruption Panic Spreads to Trucking: C.H. Robinson Crashes 15%, RXO Drops 25%
Forked Feed says: A former karaoke machine company just wiped billions off the trucking industry. Algorhythm Holdings, which until recently was called The Singing Machine Company and had a market cap of $6 million and annual recurring revenue of $10 million, published a white paper about its SemiCab AI logistics platform that claimed it could scale freight volumes by 300% to 400%. That was all it took. C.H. Robinson plunged 15%, hitting a record intraday drop of 24% before recovering slightly. RXO fell 25%. Landstar crashed 16%. Expeditors International dropped 17%. J.B. Hunt lost 9%. Old Dominion fell 8%. The Russell 3000 Trucking Index shed 7.8%. Total damage: tens of billions in market cap erased because a company that made karaoke machines said it could do trucking with robots. Algorhythm’s stock, naturally, surged 31%. Barclays immediately defended C.H. Robinson, calling the selloff “disproportionate” and pointing out that the alleged disruptor has $2.8 million in cash and generated $10 million in revenue. That’s not a competitor. That’s a GoFundMe with a white paper. But this is 2026, where the mere mention of “AI” in a press release can incinerate a sector faster than the actual technology could ever disrupt it. Software got it first. Then financial services. Then gaming. Now trucking. At this rate, by March, someone will publish a white paper about AI-powered barbershops and Great Clips will lose 40% of its market cap.
AppLovin Plunges 20% Despite Beating Earnings Because the Market Has Lost Its Mind
Forked Feed says: AppLovin reported Q4 revenue of $1.66 billion, up 66% year-over-year. EPS of $3.24, up 87%. Adjusted EBITDA margin of 84.4%. Free cash flow of $1.31 billion. Those are numbers that would make a private equity partner weep with joy. The stock dropped 20%. Down 50% from its December high of $746 to roughly $365 in two months. The reasons are a layer cake of panic. Meta is reportedly getting more aggressive on mobile gaming ads. Google’s Project Genie could democratize game development. A new competitor called CloudX launched an AI-native ad platform. The SEC is investigating data collection practices. Short sellers keep publishing reports. And now the Q1 guidance implies sequential growth of only 5-7%, which for a stock trading at 30x revenue is apparently a death sentence. CEO Adam Foroughi went on the earnings call and said there’s a “real disconnect between market sentiment and the reality of our business,” which is the polite CEO way of saying “you people have absolutely no idea what you’re doing.” He’s probably right. But being right doesn’t stop your stock from halving in two months when the market decides your entire category is AI roadkill. Morgan Stanley cut its price target from $800 to $720, which at the current price of $365 is less “price target” and more “aspirational poetry.”
Cisco Drops 12% on Memory Cost Squeeze Despite Beating Every Estimate
Forked Feed says: Cisco beat on revenue ($15.35B vs. $15.12B estimate). Beat on EPS ($1.04 vs. $1.02). Sales grew 10%. Net income jumped to $3.18 billion. Then management said gross margins would decline to 65.5-66.5% next quarter, down from 67.5%, because memory prices are surging thanks to AI data center demand hoovering up every chip on the planet. The stock cratered 12%, its worst day since 2022. This is the AI paradox in its purest, most infuriating form: the technology that is supposed to make everything better is making memory so expensive that companies who actually use memory in their products can’t maintain their margins. Cisco is being punished because Nvidia is too successful. The CEO said they’ll raise prices and renegotiate contracts, which is corporate speak for “we’re going to pass the pain along and hope nobody notices.” Every analyst on the call maintained their buy rating. Bank of America said the valuation is “attractive.” JPMorgan kept overweight. It’s the Robinhood playbook all over again: beat estimates, watch your stock collapse, and then have every analyst in America tell you it’s a buying opportunity while the chart looks like someone pushed it off a cliff.
Apple Drops 5%, Loses $202 Billion in Market Cap on Siri Delays and FTC Scrutiny
Forked Feed says: Apple had its worst day since April after Bloomberg reported that the long-promised Siri AI overhaul is delayed again. The March launch is now a May launch, or possibly a September launch, or possibly a never launch, depending on which internal testing milestone keeps failing. Apple first announced the new Siri in June 2024. That was twenty months ago. Since then, ChatGPT has gone from party trick to enterprise tool, Google has launched multiple AI assistants, Meta has embedded AI into every surface of Instagram, and Siri still can’t reliably set a timer while understanding context. The company that has $3.5 trillion in market cap and infinite engineering resources cannot ship a chatbot upgrade in under two years. Meanwhile, FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson sent Tim Cook a letter about Apple News allegedly suppressing conservative content, which is the kind of headline that makes investors who thought they were only worried about Siri suddenly worried about regulatory risk too. The stock dropped 5%, wiping out $202 billion in market cap, the second-largest one-day loss in Apple’s history. Gene Munster said the muted initial reaction to the Siri delay “shows how low of a bar investors have on Apple Intelligence’s potential.” When the optimistic take is “at least nobody expected it to work,” you know you’re in trouble.
AI Disruption Fears Hit Commercial Real Estate: CBRE Falls 9%, Office Stocks Dive
Forked Feed says: The AI disruption contagion now officially has more hosts than COVID. After software, fintech, gaming, and trucking, Thursday’s newest victim was commercial real estate. CBRE fell 9% after being down 15% intraday. Jones Lang LaSalle dropped 8%. SL Green lost 5%. BXP fell 4%. The thesis: if AI replaces enough workers, companies need less office space. Keefe Bruyette said investors are “rotating out of high-fee, labor-intensive business models viewed as potentially vulnerable to AI-driven disruption.” CBRE’s own management admitted on its earnings call that AI “possibly” could reduce long-term office space demand, which is the kind of carefully hedged statement that in a rational market means nothing and in this market means sell everything that has a lobby. The sector was already dealing with post-COVID remote work concerns. Now it’s dealing with post-AI existence concerns. The logical endpoint of this trade is that AI replaces all workers, nobody needs offices, nobody needs trucks to deliver things, nobody needs software, and the only companies worth owning are Nvidia and whoever manufactures the cooling fans. We are approximately two white papers away from AI-disrupting the concept of economic activity itself.
🔎 Today’s Focus: The Headline Giveth, The Revision Taketh Away
Thursday was the day AI stopped being a technology story and became a market contagion.
The S&P 500 dropped 1.57% to 6,833, its worst day in three weeks. The Dow shed 669 points to 49,452, led lower by Cisco’s 12% plunge. The Nasdaq fell 2.03% to 22,597. All eleven S&P sectors closed lower except consumer staples and utilities. The VIX jumped to 20.82. This wasn’t a rotation. This was a purge.
The AI disruption narrative that started in software three weeks ago has metastasized into something the market hasn’t seen before: a sector-by-sector repricing of every business model that involves humans doing things for money. First it was SaaS companies. Then financial services. Then gaming. Thursday it was trucking, logistics, commercial real estate, and ad tech, all at once. C.H. Robinson fell 15% because a $6 million former karaoke company published a white paper. CBRE fell 9% because its own CEO said AI could “possibly” reduce office demand. AppLovin dropped 20% on a beat-and-raise quarter because Meta might compete harder. The common thread isn’t that AI is actually disrupting these industries right now. It’s that the market has decided to pre-price the disruption before it happens, and the trigger for selling has become any mention of AI in the same sentence as a sector name.
The few bright spots were companies directly enabling the AI buildout. Equinix surged 10% on strong data center demand guidance. Micron rose 5% after its CFO clarified HBM4 production was on track. McDonald’s gained 3% because people still eat food. Walmart rose 4% because people still buy things from physical stores. Crocs jumped 13% on a blowout quarter because AI hasn’t figured out how to 3D-print foam clogs. Yet.
Then there was Apple, which lost $202 billion in market cap because it still can’t ship the Siri upgrade it promised in June 2024. The stock fell 5%, its worst day since April. Apple is the world’s most valuable company and it cannot, after twenty months, figure out how to make its voice assistant conversational. Every competitor shipped their AI assistant already. Apple is still in testing.
CPI data drops tomorrow morning. The market is heading into it weak, scared, and increasingly unable to distinguish between actual disruption and disruption theater.
Forked Feed says: The S&P has now rejected 7,000 on every attempt in 2026 and today it didn’t even try. It went the other direction. The index is back to 6,833, which is where it was in mid-January before the Dow 50,000 party started. The AI trade has officially split into two camps: companies that build AI infrastructure (buy everything) and companies whose employees might theoretically be replaced by AI (sell everything). There is no middle ground. There is no nuance. A karaoke company with $2.8 million in cash crashed the trucking sector. A Siri delay that surprises absolutely no one cost Apple $202 billion. And Cisco got punished because AI is making memory expensive, which means the AI boom is now hurting companies that are part of the AI boom. The snake is eating its tail and the market is buying tickets.
⚡ The Setup
SPY 681.27 | BTC 66,626 | US10Y 4.113 | DXY 96.95
SPY broke below 684 support and closed at 681.27, its lowest level since late January. The S&P at 6,833 is now 2.4% below the 7,000 level that capped every rally in 2026. The next meaningful support is 6,780, the January 21 intraday low from the Greenland tariff selloff. If CPI comes in hot tomorrow, that level gets tested. If CPI is cool, SPY likely bounces toward 688-692 but the damage to market structure today was real. Breadth was abysmal. This isn’t a healthy pullback in a bull market. This is a market that’s breaking down from the inside out while the index-level damage is masked by defensive flows into staples and utilities.
BTC fell to $66,626 as risk assets got liquidated across the board. Bitcoin has now lost 44% from its highs and is back below the $67,000 level that held as support for most of January. The next major level is $65,000, and a break below that opens up $60,000. The Robinhood earnings miss Wednesday confirmed that crypto trading volumes have collapsed. Bitcoin is no longer leading risk sentiment; it’s a passenger. And the car is driving off a cliff labeled “AI disruption panic.”
The 10-year yield fell to 4.113% as money rotated aggressively into bonds. This is a flight-to-safety move, not a rate-cut-expectations move. Yesterday yields were at 4.18% on the strong jobs number. Today they’re at 4.11% because the equity selloff triggered a classic risk-off bid for Treasuries. Gold pulled back to $4,985 and silver dropped, which is unusual in a risk-off session and likely reflects margin liquidation. The bond market is now sending a fundamentally different signal than yesterday. Tomorrow’s CPI will either confirm that the economy is cooling enough to justify safety positioning or blow up the entire trade if inflation comes in hot.
DXY held near 96.95, essentially flat despite the equity carnage. The dollar usually strengthens on risk-off days, but the mixed signal from yesterday’s strong jobs number and today’s equity panic has left FX markets paralyzed. A hot CPI tomorrow would send DXY higher. A cool print keeps the 2026 downtrend intact. The dollar is waiting for a tiebreaker and it arrives at 8:30 AM tomorrow.
🧩 Market Archetype: The Panic Rotation
This is what happens when a narrative escapes containment. Three weeks ago, the AI disruption story was about software. Two weeks ago, it spread to fintech. Last week, gaming. This week, it hit trucking and commercial real estate in the same session. The market isn’t analyzing individual companies anymore. It’s playing a game of “what sector hasn’t been AI-panicked yet” and then selling it preemptively. The trigger for today’s trucking rout was a white paper from a company with $2.8 million in cash. The trigger for the real estate selloff was a CEO saying AI “possibly” could affect demand. The trigger for AppLovin’s collapse was a beat-and-raise quarter. The fundamentals are irrelevant. The rotation is purely sentiment-driven, and it feeds on itself: every new sector that falls confirms the narrative, which sends algos and momentum traders looking for the next victim. The only stocks that rose today were companies selling food, selling cheap clothes, or selling the GPUs that are causing the panic in the first place. This is the Panic Rotation: not a crash, not a correction, but a systematic repricing of every business model that involves human labor, conducted at a speed that makes the actual pace of AI development look glacial by comparison.
💧 Flow Pulse
The session’s defining feature was the sheer breadth of the AI disruption selling. What started in software has now hit logistics (C.H. Robinson -15%, RXO -25%, Landstar -16%, Expeditors -17%, J.B. Hunt -9%), commercial real estate (CBRE -9%, JLL -8%, SL Green -5%), ad tech (AppLovin -20%), networking (Cisco -12%), and mega-cap tech (Apple -5%). The IGV software ETF fell another 2.7% and is now 31% below its recent high. Palantir dropped another 5%, now down 27% YTD. The Russell 3000 Trucking Index fell 7.8%. Morgan Stanley came under pressure on wealth management AI fears. This is the broadest single-day AI disruption selloff of 2026.
The flight-to-safety trade was aggressive. Treasury yields plunged as money poured into bonds. Consumer staples outperformed: Walmart rose 4%, McDonald’s gained 3% on a Q4 earnings beat, and Procter & Gamble held steady. Utilities were the only other green sector. Crocs surged 13% after blowout Q4 earnings with EPS of $2.29 vs. $1.91 expected and full-year guidance of $12.88-$13.35 vs. $11.92 consensus. The market is rewarding companies that sell physical things to physical humans and punishing anything that can be described with the phrase “AI could potentially...”
The AI infrastructure beneficiaries continued to diverge from the victims. Equinix jumped 10% after guiding above consensus on data center demand. Micron rose 5% after its CFO clarified HBM4 production status, correcting what the company called “inaccurate reporting.” After hours, Applied Materials gave an upbeat forecast, and Airbnb beat on revenue with strong premium booking demand, gaining 4%. The market is creating a very clear taxonomy: if you build the physical infrastructure for AI, you’re a buy. If you sell anything that an AI agent could theoretically do, you’re a sell. The middle ground has been eliminated.
Forked Feed says: A karaoke company crashed the trucking sector. Apple lost $202 billion because Siri doesn’t work. Cisco got punished for being too successful at selling things that need memory, because AI bought all the memory. AppLovin beat every estimate and lost a fifth of its value. CBRE fell 9% because its CEO admitted that AI “possibly” could reduce office demand, which is the equivalent of admitting that fire is “possibly” hot and having the market burn your stock to the ground. Crocs gained 13% because foam footwear is apparently the ultimate AI hedge. McDonald’s rose because the Quarter Pounder is immune to disruption. And Equinix surged 10% because the only thing the market is willing to pay for anymore is the electricity bill for the machines that are destroying everyone else’s business model. If this sounds insane, that’s because it is. Welcome to the AI Disruption Cycle: where the technology doesn’t have to work, doesn’t have to be real, and doesn’t even have to be built by a real company. It just has to be mentioned in a white paper.
🔮 Forked Forecast
Bull Case (25%): Friday’s CPI comes in cool, at or below the +0.29% monthly consensus, and the market exhales. The AI panic is recognized as overdone, triggering a vicious short-squeeze in the most beaten-down names. Software bounces 3-5%. Trucking recovers half of Thursday’s losses as analysts point out that a $6 million karaoke company is not actually going to replace C.H. Robinson. SPY reclaims 688 on relief buying. Applied Materials’ upbeat after-hours guidance carries chip names higher. The narrative shifts from “AI destroys everything” to “the selloff created opportunities.” Bitcoin recovers above $68K. Yields stabilize near 4.10-4.15%.
Base Case (50%): CPI comes in roughly in line. The market stabilizes but doesn’t bounce meaningfully because the AI disruption narrative has damaged confidence. SPY drifts between 678-686 (S&P 6,780-6,860) as traders lick their wounds and await next week’s earnings for direction. Software and logistics names stop falling but don’t recover. The VIX stays elevated above 20. Bitcoin treads water around $65-68K. Yields hover 4.05-4.15%. The damage from the past three weeks isn’t repaired in a single CPI print, and the market enters the long weekend (Presidents’ Day Monday) cautious and range-bound.
Bear Case (35%): CPI comes in hot, above +0.35% monthly or above +2.7% yearly. Combined with yesterday’s strong jobs number and 0.4% wage growth, the “inflation is reaccelerating” narrative returns. The S&P breaks below 6,780 support and retests 6,700, the worst-case level most strategists have been ignoring. Ten-year yields rip back above 4.25%. Rate cut expectations collapse further. Bitcoin breaks $65K and tests $60K. The AI disruption selloff compounds with a macro selloff, creating a feedback loop where falling stocks trigger margin calls that force more selling. Apple’s $202 billion loss today becomes a preview, not an outlier.
Triggers to Watch:
Friday’s January CPI (consensus +0.29% monthly, +2.5% yearly) is the single most important data point of the week and possibly the month
S&P 6,780 support: the January 21 low is now the line that separates “pullback” from “correction”
AI disruption contagion: which sector is next? Healthcare? Consumer discretionary? Hospitality? The market is actively hunting
After-hours signals: Applied Materials beat, Airbnb beat, Cisco’s analysts are buying the dip. Does the overnight session stabilize or keep selling?
VIX at 20.82: a move above 22 would signal the selloff is accelerating into something more than a rotation
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💬 Final Thought
The AI disruption trade stopped making sense today. That doesn’t mean it’s going to stop.
A company that made karaoke machines and has $2.8 million in cash published a white paper, and the trucking industry lost tens of billions in market value. AppLovin beat every estimate by double digits, and the stock fell 20%. Cisco beat on revenue and earnings and dropped 12% because AI is making memory too expensive. Apple can’t ship a voice assistant upgrade after twenty months of development, and it cost shareholders $202 billion in a single session. CBRE fell 9% because its CEO said AI could “possibly” reduce office demand.
None of this is about fundamentals anymore. The market is running a search-and-destroy algorithm on every sector that could theoretically be touched by artificial intelligence, which is every sector, and it’s not waiting for the technology to actually work before repricing the stocks. Software lost a trillion. Trucking lost billions in a day. Real estate is next. The question isn’t whether AI will disrupt these industries. It’s whether the market will reprice them all simultaneously, in a panic, months or years before the disruption actually arrives.
CPI tomorrow. If it’s hot, the AI panic meets an inflation scare and there’s nowhere to hide. If it’s cool, the market might remember that the economy still exists and companies still make money.
Either way, we’re one white paper away from the next sector collapse.
That’s all for issue #177. A former karaoke company crashed the trucking sector because it published a white paper about AI freight. AppLovin beat every estimate and lost a fifth of its value. Cisco beat on revenue and earnings and dropped 12% because AI made memory too expensive. Apple lost $202 billion because Siri still doesn’t work after twenty months. CBRE fell 9% because AI might “possibly” reduce office demand. Crocs surged 13% because foam clogs are the ultimate AI hedge. And the Dow dropped 669 points because the market has decided that artificial intelligence will replace every human job except, apparently, making rubber shoes and flipping Quarter Pounders.
The karaoke company could not be reached for comment. It was too busy crashing an industry.
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