Citadel's CEO on the AI boom: 'Is it hype? Of course'

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Founder and CEO of Citadel, Ken Griffin at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on January 21, 2026
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin says the AI boom is being driven as much by hype and spending pressure as by real productivity gains.

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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry has found an unlikely ally in his crusade against AI hype: Ben Affleck

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Ben Affleck (left) and Michael Burry
Ben Affleck (left) and Michael Burry have both taken aim at AI hype.

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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry says the AI boom will end badly. He shared an old Warren Buffett story to explain why.

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Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame is skeptical of the AI boom.

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The AI boom is really a race to own the future of human labor, a safety pioneer says

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Iranian employees at the AI headquarters of the Resalat Qarz Al-Hasanah bank in Kerman, Iran, on May 4, 2025.
AI safety pioneer Roman Yampolskiy says the AI boom is really a race to control "free labor" — and the future of work itself.

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In a new deal, Nvidia hires Groq's top engineering talent, including its founder, who built AI chips at Google

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Billionaires like Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia, have seen their net worths skyrocket during the AI boom.

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Meet the trucks-and-bulldozers companies getting rich from the AI boom

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Industrial giants like Caterpillar are supplying dozens of power generators fueling data centers.

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'We're going to see a lot of carnage': VC investor says AI boom will create giants — and topple overhyped startups

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Mel Williams, a partner and cofounder at TrueBridge Capital Partners, says the AI frenzy will mint a few giants while many overhyped startups collapse.

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Tech guru Erik Gordon says investors will 'suffer' far more from the AI boom than the dot-com crash

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Cash dollars and stock market indicators (inflation, economy, crisis, finance)

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