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AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three

January 29, 2026·13 min·3-min readsolotechnology
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The AI bubble differs critically from the dot com bubble not in scale but in centralization: Nvidia alone represents 7% of the S&P 500 and derives 61% of its revenue from just four unnamed tech giants, creating systemic risk unlike the more distributed telecom overbuild of the early 2000s

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