Some short sellers are seeing opportunity in this tech mania. How they're spotting fake AI stocks

Panida Wijitpanya | Istock | Getty Images Short sellers are increasingly hunting for cracks beneath the stock market's artificial-intelligence frenzy, betting that some of the speculative excesses, copycat "AI" branding and vulnerable legacy business models could eventually unravel. As billions of dollars flood into data centers, semiconductors and AI software, some short sellers argue the rally is beginning to resemble previous speculative manias, where weaker companies rushed to attach …