Will AI bubble fears persist?
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🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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From the BBC World Service: Wall Street was cheered last night by better-than-expected results from the chip giant Nvidia. But the AI boom continues to fuel fears of a market bubble. In the past few weeks, a growing number of the world’s leading figures in finance have suggested that AI stocks are unrealistically inflated in value. Plus, Meta says it's shutting down accounts for younger teenagers in Australia ahead of the country's social media ban for youths under 16.
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| 0:31.4 | Stock soar after Nvidia's earnings defy fears of an AI bubble. |
| 0:36.0 | Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning |
| 0:38.2 | Report from the BBC World Service. I'm William Lee Adams. Good morning. Global shares received |
| 0:44.2 | a boost today, cheered by better than expected results from US chip giant in VDivya. But despite |
| 0:49.6 | the optimism, the artificial intelligence boom continues to spark fears of a market bubble. A growing number |
| 0:55.6 | of the world's leading figures in finance have suggested that AI stocks are unrealistically |
| 1:00.0 | inflated in value. The BBC's Ed Butler's been looking at the issue. History tells us this sentiment |
| 1:07.1 | can turn on the dime. That's Kristallina Georgieva, head of the IMF, one of the biggest figures in international finance. |
| 1:16.5 | Even leading Silicon Valley investors like Jerry Kaplan are now weighing in. |
| 1:21.6 | We're in the middle of an enormous economic bubble. |
| 1:25.7 | What we're seeing is this process of this thing feeding on itself, |
| 1:29.5 | and when it collapses, it's going to be very bad. As everyone in Silicon Valley remembers, |
| 1:34.7 | we have been here before. The internet appliance provider got hammered today, losing over |
| 1:39.2 | 10 points after Bear Stearns issued some cautious comments on the stock. Technology stocks got trounced |
| 1:43.8 | on the day of... Some of the new economy.coms are sinking cautious comments on the stock. Technology stocks got trounced on the day of... |
| 1:44.6 | Some of the new economy.coms are sinking as fast as the level of the tide on the Thames. |
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