The AI bubble is real – even Sam Altman and Jeff Bezos say so – and it’s already affecting you, because fear of the bubble bursting is leading companies to shove AI down your throat. And when it does burst, things will get ugly.

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REFERENCES:

OpenAI pledges to spend $1 trillion on AI infrastructure https://www.ft.com/content/a169703c-c4df-46d6-a2d3-4184c74bbaf7

OpenAI is world’s most valuable private company https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/openai-becomes-worlds-most-valuable-private-company-500b-valuation-report

OpenAI’s revenue and losses in the first half of 2025 https://www.techinasia.com/news/openais-revenue-rises-16-to-4-3b-in-h1-2025

AI accounts for huge chunk of markets https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/business/stock-market-nvidia-trump.html

Business return on AI investment remains uncertain https://www.techpolicy.press/generative-ais-productivity-myth/

Altman’s bubble comments https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/18/openai-sam-altman-warns-ai-market-is-in-a-bubble.html

Bezos’s bubble comments https://www.ft.com/content/8d80f601-4725-489a-8d6e-39099a01f9cb