dot com era

The parallels between the dot‑com boom of the late 1990s and today’s AI surge are unmistakable: breathless narratives, new vanity metrics, and money piling into infrastructure and market share long before sustainable profits appear — but the differences matter just as much, and they determine...

Bill Gates’ blunt assessment — that the current surge of artificial intelligence enthusiasm “absolutely” resembles a bubble like the dot‑com era — landed this week as both a warning signal and a reality check for an industry running at full throttle. Background The comment from Microsoft’s...