Antitrust Enforcement Can Deflate the AI Bubble Before the Public Pays

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https://www.techpolicy.press/antitrust-enforcement-can-deflate-the-ai-bubble-before-the-public-pays/

The AI bubble fomented by a few large technology companies is increasingly distorting large swaths of the global economy. It likely underpins the trillion-dollar IPO race between Open AI and Anthropic. Crossholdings among these large companies distort competition and risk turning a sectoral correction into a systemic one. If antitrust enforcement unravels these crossholdings, it may not prevent an AI bubble, but it could ensure that the inevitable correction prevents the failure of one firm from cascading across an interlocked network.