US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears(bbc.co.uk)

190 points by mindracer 14 days ago | 182 comments

BBC News report on US tech stocks falling sharply, led by Intel, Amazon, Reddit and Roblox, amid investor fears over rising AI build-out costs.

Tech sector is pouring billions of dollars into AI. It keeps laying off humans(cnn.com)

33 points by mooreds 2 years ago | 22 comments

Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might be disappointing(businessinsider.com)

71 points by haltingproblem 2 years ago | 110 comments

Oracle files to sell $20B in new stock, bonds to finance AI buildout(cnbc.com)

167 points by smartmic 11 days ago | 165 comments

CNBC report on Oracle filing to sell $10 billion in stock and $10 billion in bonds to fund its AI infrastructure buildout, and the market's reaction.

OpenAI investors try to get Sam Altman back as CEO after sudden firing(wsj.com)

85 points by outrun86 3 years ago | 97 comments

Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'(businessinsider.com)

69 points by LelouBil 6 months ago | 85 comments

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else(washingtonpost.com)

359 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 9 months ago | 596 comments

Washington Post article on how the roughly $700 billion AI spending boom is causing shortages of electricians, components, and pricier smartphones elsewhere in the economy.

AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is(fastcompany.com)

580 points by felineflock 1 year ago | 416 comments

Fast Company article arguing that job cuts stem from companies redirecting budgets to AI spending rather than AI directly replacing workers.

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt(futurism.com)

628 points by technewssss 3 months ago | 317 comments

Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.

Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget(wsj.com)

40 points by swolpers 1 month ago | 41 comments

Wall Street Journal article on how businesses struggle to budget for AI spending as token-based costs grow unpredictably.

AI is dramatically accelerating AI research(planned-obsolescence.org)

333 points by yurivish 7 days ago | 300 comments

Ajeya Cotra's Substack post arguing a METR report shows AI is already roughly doubling AI capabilities progress at Anthropic, implying rapid compounding toward superintelligence.