AI bubble

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The AI bubble is a concept that asserts there is a stock market bubble growing since 2025 amid the AI boom, a period of rapid increase in investment in artificial intelligence (AI) that The Wall Street Journal reported as "the biggest economic bet in U.S. history." Early AI investment was funded primarily with operating cash flow, but by 2026 the bond market came to dominate the financing, as well as $3 trillion in off-balance-sheet commitments. Speculation about a bubble also stems from concerns that leading AI tech firms are involved in a circular flow of investments that are artificially inflating the value of their stocks and the broader market. The Wall Street Journal reported that the circularity, reminiscent of the dotcom build-out of the 1990s, "can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside." Some, like hedge fund manager Ray Dalio, see other similarities with the dot-com bubble. Despite the massive spending, by October 2026 the demand for AI computing power was exceeding...

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