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After Thursday’s share price plunge on Wall Street, could the volatility be the start of a huge market meltdown?

Is the artificial intelligence (AI) gold rush coming to an end, or is this simply a reality check?

HONG KONG — The term “bubble” was not a whispered fear but a baseline for discussion at the Nov. 4 Cyberport Venture and Capital Forum, where participants focused on winning the next competitive cycle in AI. As artificial intelligence valuations soar to unprecedented heights, venture capitalists are shifting their focus from the marketing noise of…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage on Wall Street, leaving more mundane “real-world” businesses in its high-tech shadow. But investors ignore boring businesses at their own peril today, amid growing concerns that AI has turned into a bubble that could soon burst. Even if it does, the packages that United Parcel Service (NYSE: UPS)…

When Ken Griffin, founder of Citadel, warned this week that financial bubbles almost certainly exist within artificial intelligence, Wall Street took notice. But the more interesting part of his argument was directed at corporate America. Companies are opening their bills from OpenAI and Anthropic and asking whether the technology is producing enough productivity to justify…

It was a year ago that Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang shocked the markets with a bold prediction. In a call with analysts following the company’s fiscal second-quarter 2026 earnings results, Huang predicted that artificial intelligence infrastructure spending would reach $3 trillion to $4 trillion by the end of the decade. It was an…

Investors should enjoy the final months of 2026 while they can as the AI-led stock market boom is due to go bust soon, according to analysts.

The S&P 500 is beginning to look like a massive bet on artificial intelligence. That makes me nervous.

Despite short-lived volatility tied to the Iran war in March, 2026 is shaping up to be another banner year for the stock market. Since early June, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES:^DJI), benchmark S&P 500 (SNPINDEX:^GSPC), and technology-powered Nasdaq Composite (NASDAQINDEX:^IXIC) have blasted to respective all-time highs.

Burry called the AI boom “just an asset bubble, plain and simple,” directly comparing today’s enthusiasm to the dot-com era that preceded a massive crash.