Silicon Valley adopts AI tokens as the new standard metric to measure artificial intelligence demand, sparking investor concerns about massive AI spending and raising questions about whether this measurement system reliably indicates actual profitability, reminiscent of questionable dotcom-era metrics like clicks and eyeballs.
Prediction market platform Kalshi raises $1 billion at $11 billion valuation from Sequoia and CapitalG as trading volume explodes to $50 billion annually, representing 1000x growth while competing with Polymarket for election betting dominance.
Nvidia pours a record $23.7 billion into AI companies through 59 deals in 2025, but Wall Street analysts raise concerns about the chip giant's controversial practice of investing in the same firms that buy its processors, questioning whether this circular funding strategy artificially inflates demand for its own products.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that the tech industry's 'LLM bubble' could burst next year as investors pivot from expensive universal language models to smaller, specialized AI systems that offer faster, cheaper solutions for specific tasks like banking chatbots.
Cybersecurity firm Guardio secures $80 million in funding to combat the rising threat of AI-generated malicious code, reaching $100 million in annual revenue with 500,000 paying users as artificial intelligence creates new security vulnerabilities across digital platforms.
Dow Jones crashes 500 points as investors panic over potential AI bubble similarities to dot-com crash while Federal Reserve rate cut hopes plummet from 90% to just 50%, sending major tech stocks including Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta tumbling.
OpenAI secures over $1 trillion in computing deals with tech giants including Nvidia, Oracle, and AMD while projecting a staggering $155 billion cash burn, raising serious questions about whether the AI company can generate enough revenue to sustain its massive infrastructure spending spree.
Microsoft and Nvidia pour $15 billion into AI startup Anthropic, catapulting the company's valuation to a staggering $350 billion and nearly doubling its worth from September as the tech giants secure massive compute deals worth tens of billions.
Michael Burry's hedge fund places massive $1.1 billion bet against AI giants Nvidia and Palantir through put options, wagering their stock prices will fall in the near term despite the companies' strong AI market positions.
OpenAI hires former Instacart CEO Fidji Simo to lead ChatGPT operations and drive profitability as the AI giant plans to transform the chatbot into a comprehensive personal services platform covering shopping, travel, and financial advice while introducing advertising to free users.