NYU Professor Warns AI Crash Could Exceed Dot-Com Bust
Aswath Damodaran, NYU finance professor, warns an AI crash could be more damaging than the 2000 dot-com bust due to higher debt and infrastructure costs.
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The business of AI — funding rounds, acquisitions, enterprise adoption, and market moves. Who is investing, who is partnering, and how AI is reshaping company strategy and the wider economy.
Aswath Damodaran, NYU finance professor, warns an AI crash could be more damaging than the 2000 dot-com bust due to higher debt and infrastructure costs.
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Allbirds sold its shoe business for $43 million and raised $100 million to launch Smartbird, an AI infrastructure provider targeting data sovereignty.
Meta's new AI unit has sparked employee unrest, with 7,000 workers reassigned to AI projects, leading to frustration and open defiance.
Snap is spinning off its AI video team into a new company named Dotmo, citing high internal costs as a key reason for the move.
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Noam Shazeer, co-creator of Google's Gemini models, is leaving the company to join OpenAI. His move marks a major shift in AI talent this year.
AI hype is giving way to ROI scrutiny as companies like Uber and Meta cut back on AI spending, according to NEA’s Tiffany Luck.
Amazon, Nvidia, and AMD have invested $310 million in AI startup Odyssey ML, which builds 3D world models. The round values the company at $1.45 billion.
Anthropic, the AI startup, pledged $915 million to Frontier, doubling its funding to $1.8 billion, marking its first climate-related deal.