{"id":41620,"date":"2025-08-04T00:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41620\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T00:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T00:51:08","slug":"real-world-economic-problems-such-as-the-trade-war-start-to-overshadow-ai-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/41620\/","title":{"rendered":"Real-world economic problems such as the trade war start to overshadow AI boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fascinating pressure test is about to get under way for equity markets. It boils down to this: the real economy versus the artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday and Thursday night, it was all about AI, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/technology\/meta-shares-jump-after-strong-third-quarter-sales-forecast-20250731-p5mj50\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft and Meta Platforms (owner of Facebook and Instagram) delivered impressive June quarter earnings<\/a> that suggested the technology sector\u2019s staggering investment in AI infrastructure \u2013 about $US350 billion this year between those two, Alphabet and Amazon, and probably at least $US400 billion next year \u2013 was getting early returns.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fascinating pressure test is about to get under way for equity markets. It boils down to this:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-41620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}