From: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/07/03/the-ai-bubble-is-bursting-but-behind-it-hides-an-even-great/
Re: semiconductor drop last week
The trigger seems to have been talk of a thousand plagues by the hybrid cloud giant Oracle, which ranged from wild overbuilding of data centres to stranded capacity, power and water shortages, permitting delays, credit risk and customer defaults.
Its annual report contained the cluster bo-b that “highly leveraged” customers had contracted more computing power than they could plausibly pay for. “We may experience risks of non-payment and non-performance in our dealings with such parties,” Oracle said.
Translation: “Oracle is saying that OpenAI may have ordered too much food, may not eat it all, and, worse, may not pay the bill,” said Ipek Ozkardeskaya from SwissQuote, a foreign exchange firm. Could ChatGPT be squeezed out and go the way of Firefox? It certainly could.