There are fresh signs that the AI boom is wobbling. Again. In recent weeks, a much-vaunted AI focused hedge fund run by Valley wunderkind Leopold Aschenbrenner lost $35 billion dollars. South Korea saw its largest-ever stock market collapse as investors pulled bets on AI chips. Due to a fresh series of moratoria and political opposition, the future of the massive data center buildout has never looked more uncertain. The US markets have dipped and boomed, dipped and boomed.

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    1 month ago

    Definitely think there’s some things to consider there. But I also wonder what the knock on effects for other asset classes will be like MMFs. Still, stonks (esp AI related, which has a fair weight in index funds) are probably not going to be great to hold when it does crack