Artificial intelligence
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1 week agoIs AI killing technology?
AI-driven demand is causing chip shortages, raising hardware prices, delaying GPUs, diverting startup funding, and draining academic research talent.
Addressing one of the most persistent critiques of the current artificial intelligence boom, CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator pushed back against the narrative of a "circular AI economy" in an appearance at the Fortune Brainstorm AI conference in San Francisco. While skeptics often point to the tangled web of investments between chipmakers, cloud providers, and AI startups as a financial bubble, he argued that deep industry collaboration is the only viable response to a historic supply chain crisis.
The Dutch government felt it necessary to step in at the end of September by taking control of Nexperia, worried that the company's chip knowledge would leak to Chinese parent company Wingtech. Beijing responded immediately with export restrictions, which severely affected the production chain. Although 70 percent of Nexperia's chips are made in Europe, they are packaged and distributed in China.