Investors are displaying growing intolerance for slowing legacy operations as tech giants direct massive capital outlays into artificial intelligence development. Recent financial reports from Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. have intensified concerns that these immense expenses are directly dragging on the core businesses funding them. Capital Group Vice Chair Jody Jonsson stressed that a major gap persists between vendor expectations and the actual pace of business technology adoption. Additionally, unconsolidated off-balance-sheet debt concentrated among a tight network of firms is introducing systemic vulnerabilities.
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Heightened investor skepticism is curbing the once-widespread assumption that the artific…: Heightened investor skepticism is curbing the once-widespread assumption that the artificial intelligence trade is completely infallible.
Late entrants into crowded investment trades risk facing steadily declining standards alo…: Late entrants into crowded investment trades risk facing steadily declining standards alongside sharply inflated asset prices.
Interconnected tech firms extending credit to one another creates heightened fragility ac…: Interconnected tech firms extending credit to one another creates heightened fragility across the broader financial system.
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(Bloomberg) -- Recent artificial intelligence related market stumbles have somewhat burst the bubble of infallibility around the sector, Howard Marks, co-chair of Oaktree Capital Management LP, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV.
“I think that now people are saying, hold on, wait a minute, let’s be a little more thoughtful, let’s be a little more skeptical,” Marks, who wrote in a note last year that he was on bubble watch, said. “That’s very healthy,” he added.
Marks’s comments come as investors are showing less tolerance for tech companies whose core businesses are cooling beneath an unprecedented AI spending spree. Recent results from Alphabet Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. have fueled concerns that AI is eroding the businesses financing those investments.
“Over the last couple of years, there has been great excitement and eagerness surrounding buying into or lending to AI, and so that’s that’s been a crowded trade,” Marks said.
If you think you’re in the later innings and everybody’s excited about it, it’s been done a lot, Marks added. “The standards have come down, prices have gone up. You…
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