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The AI Industry: Building the Future While It Burns

AI sector deploys $90B in infrastructure while losing $50B in market value. Security breaches expose agent risks as 95% of enterprise projects fail.

Olivia Sharp 12 min read 330 views
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The artificial intelligence sector spent the past week doing two contradictory things at once. It deployed $90 billion in new infrastructure while losing $50 billion in market value. It rushed to launch autonomous agent platforms while discovering those same agents had already been weaponized by foreign adversaries. It announced record venture rounds while admitting 95% of enterprise AI projects never make it to production.

The artificial intelligence sector spent the past week doing two contradictory things at once. It deployed $90 billion in new infrastructure while losing $50 billion in market value. It rushed to launch autonomous agent platforms while discovering those same agents had already been weaponized by foreign adversaries. It announced record venture rounds while admitting 95% of enterprise AI projects never make it to production.

This is not the measured progression of a maturing technology. This is panic dressed up as progress. Google and Anthropic committed $90 billion to Texas data centers in a single 24-hour news cycle. The number is …

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