Published: Feb. 6, 2026 at 6:40\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n
During Super Bowl XXXIV on Jan. 30, 2000, 14 of the 61 television advertisements were for internet startups. Perhaps they should have heeded the advice offered by E-Trade\u2019s \u201cWaste of Money\u201d ad that year, which featured a dancing monkey and ended with the on-screen punchline: \u201cWell, we just wasted $2,000,000. What are you doing with your money?\u201d<\/p>\n
That Super Bowl was played just before the dot-com bubble burst. Fast-forward to 2026: This year\u2019s Super Bowl ads are heavily promoting AI, which may be the only indicator you need of whether AI is a bubble about to burst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Feb. 6, 2026 at 6:40\u202fp.m. ET During Super Bowl XXXIV on Jan. 30, 2000, 14 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1149,137206,220,113584,113578,218,58433,44772,219,23483,2896,2670,11919,113344,1444,4312,115688,113582,222,4087,18767,5227,1446,113579,2210,1595,88747,39906,61,1940,206,137207,137203,11393,1831,975,60,17544,3045,137204,1148,76654,387,5452,137202,13943,58444,1143,113585,5203,88739,1614,1729,4755,137205,136269,80,47068],"class_list":["post-285229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advertising","tag-advertising-public-relations-marketing","tag-ai","tag-analyst-comment","tag-analyst-comment-recommendation","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bubble","tag-capital","tag-chatgpt","tag-commentary","tag-commentary-opinion","tag-computer-science","tag-computers","tag-computers-electronics","tag-corporate-actions","tag-earnings","tag-electronics","tag-equity","tag-equity-markets","tag-funding","tag-funding-capital","tag-gemini","tag-general-news","tag-humanities","tag-hyperscaler","tag-ie","tag-information-technology","tag-internet","tag-internet-online-services","tag-invesor","tag-invest","tag-investing","tag-investment","tag-ireland","tag-llm","tag-machine-learning","tag-magnificentseven","tag-marketing","tag-online-services","tag-opinion","tag-personal-technology","tag-personaltechnology","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-public-relations","tag-recommendation","tag-sciences","tag-sciences-humanities","tag-services","tag-startup","tag-stock","tag-stockmarket","tag-superbowl","tag-technology","tag-venturecapital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285229","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=285229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}