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Welcome to Surviving AI with Carlo Thompson!

In this highly requested deep dive, we are tackling the multi-trillion-dollar question keeping investors and tech executives awake at night: Is the massive AI bubble finally popping, or are we just witnessing a painful but healthy market correction?

We are cutting through the hype to look at the cold, hard data driving the financial and technological turbulence of 2026. If you have a 401(k), own tech stocks, or work in the software industry, you cannot afford to miss this episode.

In this episode, we unpack:

• The S&P 500 Unwind: Why Capital Economics predicts a major pullback in 2026 driven by inflation and high interest rates.
• The Smart Money Pivot: Why Bridgewater Associates slashed their stakes in giants like Meta, Alphabet, and Microsoft, while betting heavily on Block and Oracle.
• The Shadow Banking Risk: The precarious "house of cards" created by circular financing and unregulated private equity funding AI startups.
• OpenAI's Leaked Financials: A look at the mind-boggling projected $14 billion loss for 2026 and the reality of the $500 billion Stargate data center project.
• The Enterprise Paradox: Why 90% of organizations are using AI, but only 40% are actually seeing a positive ROI.
• The Labor Market Reality: Moving past the "AI apocalypse" to understand the transition from training-time compute to inference-time compute.
• New Regulations: What you need to know about the Colorado AI Act and California's AB 2013 data transparency laws.

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