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Squawk on the Street

SOTS 2nd Hour: State of the Union Takeaways, Countering AI Disruption Fears, and LIVE: Lucid CEO 2/25/26

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Investing, Business

4.0566 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Carl Quintanilla, Sara Eisen, and David Faber kicked off the hour with some alternative data points around AI disruption fears - before breaking down where Piper Sandler thinks you should put money to work with their Chief Strategist. Plus: Wall Street takeaways from last night's State of the Union Address with Raymond James' policy head... and more on how to trade Nvidia ahead of results tonight. Also in focus: a morning of huge movers in the spanning earnings and media news... What NFL negotiations have to do with it - along with the latest developments in the fate for Warner Brothers Discovery, including details on Paramount's newest offer... And hear a read on EV demand with the interim CEO of Lucid - who joined the team fresh off quarterly results there. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Good Wednesday morning. Welcome to Squawk on the Street. I'm Sarah Eisen with Carl Kintania and David Faber. We are live, as always, from post-9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Coming up on today's show, is NVIDIA still the AI bellwether used to be? We'll talk about what's at stake when the company reports results in just a few hours.

0:22.3

Plus, CEO of EV Maker Lucid will be on with us on the back of results as questions swirl around the

0:27.2

future of the EV market and as the company lays off workers. And we're on Supreme Court Watch again

0:32.2

as we await potential decisions, including on President Trump's authority to fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook.

0:38.3

We don't know if that's coming today, but we'll monitor it and bring any headlines as soon

0:41.7

as we get them.

0:43.2

But guys, I have some good news.

0:45.7

It's a little pushback to the narrative lately and the fears lately about AI coming for all

0:52.5

of our jobs, coming for white-collar jobs, coming for the economy,

0:56.0

coming for consumer stocks, basically coming for everything.

0:59.0

Remember this Citrini note created a lot of fears and a lot of disruption and a lot of sell-off on Wall Street.

1:04.0

Well, guess what? Citadel has a very interesting note out today from Frank Flight, who's a sort of macro strategist over there,

1:11.1

with some pushback. And the thrust of it is that just because AI is accelerating very quickly

1:21.1

in terms of its technology and what it's able to do does not mean that the economy, enterprises, and consumers will be that fast when it comes

1:31.1

to adopting it.

1:32.6

And just a few charts that he highlights here that I thought were worth sharing with everybody.

1:36.3

Number one, rest assured, software engineer job postings are way up.

1:42.7

In fact, they're much higher than overall job postings.

1:46.6

Remember, this kind of goes against the narrative

1:48.5

that all the software engineers are gonna be extinct

1:51.4

because Claude code is just gonna do everything,

1:54.1

right, that we're not gonna need as many software engineers.

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