{"id":431636,"date":"2026-01-23T06:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431636\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:33:08","slug":"an-ai-bubble-pop-in-2026-could-trigger-a-global-market-crash-and-hurt-australian-superannuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431636\/","title":{"rendered":"An AI bubble pop in 2026 could trigger a global market crash and hurt Australian superannuation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan 23, 2026 \u2013 1.25pm<\/p>\n

After an extraordinary week dominated by the apparent disintegration<\/a> of the global rules-based order in Davos and the federal Coalition<\/a> in Canberra, it feels like we\u2019re limping into the Australia Day long weekend with a pretty good idea of the biggest problems facing the nation. But have we already taken our eye off the story likely to define 2026?<\/p>\n

Certainly, it\u2019s hard to dodge the sense that we\u2019ve reached a real break with the past in both geopolitics and domestic politics<\/a>. But when the elites at the World Economic Forum weren\u2019t talking about the fate of a little Nordic island, there was little doubt about what they were seeing as the most pressing challenge facing the world this year: the fate of the artificial intelligence boom.<\/p>\n

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