“A snow crystal is also called a snowflake, but a puff ball is not called a snow crystal,” Libbrecht said. “Snowflakes are kind of anything that falls out of the sky that is snowflakelike.

Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) and Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW) rank as top artificial intelligence software names for the year ahead, according to the analysts at Wedbush. The financial services firm has also ...