PCWorld analyzes eight warning signs suggesting the AI industry bubble may burst by 2026, including unsustainable investments, lack of profitability, and consumer dissatisfaction with AI products.

AI finance deals surged to $125 billion in 2025 Nvidia and OpenAI face scrutiny over valuation and spending Bill Gates and Demis Hassabis warn of correction; Friar sees momentum ...

Dr. Frey is an economist at the University of Oxford and the author of the book “How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation and the Fate of Nations.” “Bubbles are great. May the bubbles continue,” Eric ...

Is the trillion-dollar AI investment boom completely irrational? Google head Sundar Pichai thinks so, telling the BBC that there are "elements of irrationality" — yet Wall Street continues to invest.

Alex Dryden does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

First, AI is almost certainly in what economists call an asset bubble or a speculative bubble. As the name suggests, this is when asset prices soar well above their fundamental value. A classic ...

Last Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters at a private dinner that investors are overexcited about AI models. “Someone” will lose a “phenomenal amount of money,” he said, according to The ...

Humpback whales are known for their extensive use of bubbles—from powerful, aggressive bursts that prove their prowess during courtship to the bubble-net “curtains” they produce to round up prey in a ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Arkansas guard D.J. Wagner (21) drives between Alabama guard Mark Sears (1) and center Clifford Omoruyi (11), Saturday, Feb. 8, 2025, during the second half of the Razorbacks' 85-81 loss to the ...

UBS says a looser monetary policy from the Fed would fuel a stock market bubble. Six of the seven components of a market bubble are present, UBS said. UBS sees a 35% chance of a bubble forming in 2025 ...