AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
AI is a bubble and it will burst. Most of the companies will fail. Most of the datacenters will be shuttered or sold for parts. So what will be left behind?
We will have a bunch of coders who are really good at applied statistics. We will have a lot of cheap GPUs, which will be good news for, say, effects artists and climate scientists, who will be able to buy that critical hardware at pennies on the dollar. And we will have the open-source models that run on commodity hardware, AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images; summarizing documents; and automating a lot of labor-intensive graphic editing – such as removing backgrounds or airbrushing passersby out of photos. These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of.
The AI Wildfire Is Coming. It's Going to be Very Painful and Incredibly Healthy.
https://ceodinner.substack.com/p/the-ai-wildfire-is-coming-its-going?r=6ljom&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
AI won’t crash—it will burn. Like every tech cycle, the fire will clear the brush, redistribute talent, and leave infrastructure to power what comes next. The question is: what kind of plant are you?
Kawaii Not - kawaii not #177
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"i'm bubble tea... suck my balls"
I HATE IT HERE: Dear bubble veterans: We get it. Now shut up, you're harshing our buzz. - Valleywag
http://valleywag.com/tech/i-hate-it-here/dear-bubble-veterans-we-get-it-now-shut-up-youre-harshing-our-buzz-249065.php
'We'll laugh all the way to the billion-dollar buyout. And when the dust settles and it's time to make the fuck-you money say "fuck you," we'll see who looks stupid.'