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Big Technology Podcast · Wednesday, August 12, 2026

AI Companies Face Binary Outcome: Massive Profit or Business Failure

Kedrosky suggests that AI companies face a stark dichotomy in their future financial outcomes: either they will generate significantly more profit than anticipated, or they risk going out of business. He notes that investors in these ventures now will bear the primary risk of this uncertainty.

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Right. And so you can look at that and say, well, either the AI companies are going to make way more money than anyone thinks possible, or they're going to go out of business. There's not a lot of in between.
Paul Kedrosky
That's right. You know, and so the people who are doing the investing now are the ones who are going to bear the brunt of this.
Paul Kedrosky
Heard on Big Technology Podcast — “Here's How The AI Bubble Bursts — With Paul Kedrosky, published Wednesday, August 12, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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