｢ “Mid-to-high-level managers are being told by their bosses that they need to use AI for X percent of their job to satisfy the board.” These companies might even lay off workers or slow their hiring because they are convinced—like the software developers from the METR study—that AI has made them more productive, even when it hasn’t. The result would be an increase in unemployment that isn’t offset by actual gains in productivity ｣

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubble-us-economy/684128/

#ai #bubble

🎢 AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies - Apollo Academy

｢ Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employeesq ｣

https://www.apolloacademy.com/ai-adoption-rate-trending-down-for-large-companies/

#ai #aihype #bubble

🎢 AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies - Apollo Academy

｢ Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employeesq ｣

https://www.apolloacademy.com/ai-adoption-rate-trending-down-for-large-companies/

#ai #aihype #bubble

｢ “Mid-to-high-level managers are being told by their bosses that they need to use AI for X percent of their job to satisfy the board.” These companies might even lay off workers or slow their hiring because they are convinced—like the software developers from the METR study—that AI has made them more productive, even when it hasn’t. The result would be an increase in unemployment that isn’t offset by actual gains in productivity ｣

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubble-us-economy/684128/

#ai #bubble

🐨 Sovereign Australia AI to build an Australian ChatGPT that is cheaper and respects copyright

｢ Two Australian entrepreneurs have joined the race to build a local alternative to the artificial intelligence models created by tech giants like OpenAI and Meta, earmarking $10 million to compensate copyright owners for their work ｣

https://www.afr.com/technology/we-can-do-it-for-under-100m-start-up-joins-race-to-build-local-chatgpt-20250908-p5mt5o

#ai #australia #bubble

"She got ChatGPT to tell me what a rat I was," he told the newspaper. "She got the chatbot to explain how awful my behaviour was and gave it to me."

https://futurism.com/godfather-ai-ex-broke-up-chatgpt

#ai #chatbots #bubble

Question. I keep hearing some people say that this AI bubble is like the dotcom bubble, but that from the dotcom bubble we eventually got infrastructure for today's internet. But, was the dotcom thing opposed by people? Was it technology that grew organically from genuine demand or was it a few companies forcing it down on everyone? I would like to hear from someone more knowledgeable on these things on the claim that this bubble will pave the way for #ai

#noai #bubble

｢ When one user asked it to produce a map of the U.S. with all the states labeled, GPT-5 extruded a fantasyland, including states such as Tonnessee, Mississipo and West Wigina ｣

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-20/say-farewell-to-the-ai-bubble-and-get-ready-for-the-crash

#ai #bubble #aihype

｢ 35% of the US stock market is held up by five or six companies buying GPUs. If NVIDIA's growth story stumbles, it will reverberate through the rest of the Magnificent 7, making them rely on their own AI trade stories ｣

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-gui/

#nvidia #ai #bubble

💸 Investors Are Suddenly Pulling Out of AI

｢ venture capitalists — who’ve dumped $104.3 billion into AI companies this year so far, almost as much as all of 2024 combined — are now frequently exiting through mergers and acquisitions with much lower returns on their bets ｣

https://futurism.com/ai-venture-capital-exits

#ai #bubble #market

🫧 Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion

｢ The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s ｣

https://futurism.com/economist-ai-bubble-worse-dot-com-implosion

#ai #bubble #recession

🫧 Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion

｢ The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s ｣

https://futurism.com/economist-ai-bubble-worse-dot-com-implosion

#ai #bubble #recession

🔥TOASTY

"where almost the entire tech industry has bought in on a technology sold at a vastly-discounted rate, heavily-centralized and subsidized by big tech. What happens when the entire tech industry relies on the success of a kind of software that only loses money, and doesn’t create much value to begin with?"

https://futurism.com/openai-trouble-subprime

#openai #bubble #ai

🧐 Wall Street is catching on.

“If you’re going to invest now and get returns in 10 to 15 years, that’s a venture investment, that’s not a public company investment,” Luria said. “For public companies, we expect to get return on investment in much shorter time frames. So that’s causing discomfort, because we’re not seeing the types of applications and revenue from applications that we would need to justify anywhere near these investments right now.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/tech/wall-street-asks-big-tech-will-ai-ever-make-money

#ai #hype #bubble

😅 The braintrust of grifters assembled by Meta got no better idea than going closed source, Mark is such an easy mark for these natural born swindlers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-superintelligence-lab-ai.html

#meta #ai #bubble

｢ An unusual part of OpenAI is that everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack. There is no email. I maybe received ~10 emails in my entire time there. If you aren't organized, you will find this incredibly distracting. If you curate your channels and notifications, you can make it pretty workable ｣

https://calv.info/openai-reflections

#openai #ai #bubble

🫧 Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

｢ As the BBC reports, there's now something of a cottage industry for writers and coders who specialize in fixing AI's mistakes — and those who are good at it are using the opportunity to rake in cash ｣

https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistakes

#ai #layoffs #bubble

🫧 Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

｢ As the BBC reports, there's now something of a cottage industry for writers and coders who specialize in fixing AI's mistakes — and those who are good at it are using the opportunity to rake in cash ｣

https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistakes

#ai #layoffs #bubble

💰 Sell the shovel

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j13m74lklo

#nvidia #ai #bubble