this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2026
162 points (98.8% liked)

Technology

86442 readers
2942 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
top 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

There's a financial bubble and a mental bubble. They are related and feed each other but they are not the same and might not blow up at the same time.

The Market, according to the article, isn't losing its faith in AI as the Ultimate Technology (the mental bubble or "AI psychosis"). It's just questioning its belief that one or two companies might be able to squeeze massive profits out of it (the financial bubble).

Investors thought one AI winner would emerge relatively quickly, a new SuperGoogle or HyperAmazon that would make all the money in the world by providing access to AI to every other company. The AI winner would then gleefully enshittify their product while making it more expensive over time, eventually turning huge profits (even including the Trillions of investment spent to get there).

Now, with multiple companies that are offering an almost equivalent product and are forced to compete on price while already bleeding billions every quarter, everyone might just run out of money before the winner is declared. Not a scenario many are willing to invest in.

But the idea that AI can do everyone's job or give anyone 100x superpowers will still be out there. And all the CEOs and CTOs who thought they would look like thought leaders if they bet everything on AI will not easily change their minds all at once. They will still be easy marks for the next snake oil salesman, selling them a product based on cheap, less powerful models or whatever they can insist can still perform the 100x miracle at an actually bearable cost.

Some might actually be useful products, it's just that if the mental bubble, overinflating what AI can do doesn't blow, they can still be sold way above their actual worth.

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

It will peak and become more boring and Google like.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 12 points 3 hours ago

We need to be hearing AI customers saying "This is so great, we're going to double our AI spend next year!"

We're actually hearing "What's the ROI on this? We're looking to cut back."

That's just not consistent with the exponential growth OpenAI and Anthropic need to survive.

[–] SpaceDuck@feddit.org 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Look I think these prices are unsustainable, but the article basically says nvidia 1.4pct down and then goes to a non ai company being down. It’s a dramatic title, not a dramatic plunge.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

Hm, thanks for confirming my skepticism I guess.

Still, even the existence of such articles gives a little hope that the bubble might burst.

[–] rf_@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

The market is finally starting to question if there will be an ROI to all the capex.

[–] thebasementcakes@leminal.space 22 points 8 hours ago

The hype was to rug pull some IPOs, worked at least once with Spacex