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Is the AI boom a bubble waiting to burst?

WBUR
Published October 20, 2026 at 10:09 AM MDT
Through a new collaboration, CoreWeave and NVIDIA are accelerating the buildout of AI factories to meet enterprise demand. (Business Wire/AP)
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Through a new collaboration, CoreWeave and NVIDIA are accelerating the buildout of AI factories to meet enterprise demand. (Business Wire/AP)

Trillions of dollars of debt is fueling the artificial intelligence economy. However, the crash in the price of bonds of CoreWeave, a data center company, has investors concerned about whether the AI market is as stable as once believed.

Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks with Roben Farzad, host of Full Disclosure.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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