The Biggest Risk to the AI Trade May Now Come From the AI Industry Itself
What happens to the companies built around an endless AI infrastructure boom if the companies developing AI decide they no longer want to move quite so fast?
ET&A Research · 18 September 2026
For most of the artificial intelligence boom, investors have worried about almost everything except the possibility that the AI industry itself might decide to slow down.
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