This company already is benefiting from its artificial intelligence investments. Artificial intelligence (AI) stocks soared over the past couple of years amid excitement about how this technology could transform the world — from making our daily tasks easier to making companies more efficient and spurring groundbreaking discoveries. President Donald Trump announced his intention to impose tariffs on imports, and stocks tumbled — the concern is such tariffs would result in higher prices at home, and this would hurt both the consumer and companies.