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With all the AI bubble headlines out there, it’s easy to conclude that the great bull run will end in tears and perhaps irrecoverable losses for those who’ve chased the hottest AI names in the market.
The largest companies have seen their weighting in the S&P 500 rise more quickly than their share of total earnings
It's really a different thing,' Jerome Powell told reporters this week. However, the Federal Reserve is closely watching the impact of AI on hiring following high-profile tech layoffs.
"Absolutely, there are a ton of these investments that will be dead ends," Bill Gates said on "Squawk Box."
Lately, there's talk of an AI bubble, a runup in the prices of tech stocks fueled by enthusiasm over artificial intelligence. Several tech giants report earnings in late October, numbers that could inflate the bubble further – or cause it to pop.
Japan's benchmark Nikkei index dropped 3.8 percent on Wednesday following a downbeat session on Wall Street fuelled by fears of an AI bubble.
Even with valuations elevated, the old maxim of "don't fight the Fed" may prove to be good advice in the near term.
Nvidia is at the core of the AI revolution with its high-tech computer chips in high demand. They are the "brains" that power AI. AI will always need high-powered chips, so it may seem reasonable to think that Nvidia can weather the AI bubble popping.
Utilities are investing in pricey grid upgrades as tech companies shrug off concerns about building too many data centers.
Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta raised their capital expenditure forecasts in the tech giants' most recent earnings reports.
The same thing happened in the dot-com bubble 25 years ago, and it has raised investor concern that it could be happening again. However, that ignores a key point: There are other companies out there besides OpenAI that are spending real money on AI chips.
Either the bubble bursts and wipes out a huge sector of the economy, or AI replaces human workers across industries.