{"id":180684,"date":"2025-12-08T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180684\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T07:59:08","slug":"is-ai-a-bubble-thats-about-to-pop-podcast-artificial-intelligence-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180684\/","title":{"rendered":"Is AI a bubble that\u2019s about to pop? \u2013 podcast | Artificial intelligence (AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">For months there have been fears that artificial intelligence is a bubble and that it is about to burst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">As the Guardian US tech editor Blake Montgomery explains, the magnificent seven \u2013 Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla \u2013 make up one-third of the value of the S&amp;P 500, the index of the 500 biggest stocks in the US market. All are heavily invested in AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Never before has so much of the economy been dependent on one technology. And despite the trillions of dollars invested, AI is yet to show a way it can sustainably turn over profits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">So what happens, asks Nosheen Iqbal,  if one day the faith falters, the money stops coming in and the bottom falls out?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A stock market trader looks at prices on a screen.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6024.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"356.0590969455511\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-evn1e9\"\/> Photograph: Angela Weiss\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For months there have been fears that artificial intelligence is a bubble and that it is about to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-180684","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-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}