Azeem Azhar

So last two or three minutes before I let you go to your next appointment, there's publishers who sit in the middle, who don't have particularly distinctive content, who don't have a great set of resources to break through

They've got some time to make changes.

What are the changes that they should start to make?

It's an absolutely enormous question.

We ended up with this business model almost by accident 25 years ago through some experiments and something stuck and maybe can be a bit more design oriented for the next generation of the internet.

Matthew Prince, thank you so much for joining me today.

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Are we in an AI bubble?

As I speak, hundreds of billions of dollars are being poured into artificial intelligence.

Many say it's the investment the technology deserves, the push towards an abundance of intelligence that could change humanity forever.

Others are calling it a bubble, a repeating economic story of excess, untethered belief and ultimately collapse.

All of these ended in disaster with money down the drain, investors losing their shirts and shocks to the economy.

The narratives seduce us, but ultimately that rhetoric turns into reality and prices collapse.

To some extent, the current AI wave resembles past manias.

And so there's a key uncertainty.

Is this sustainable growth or are we leading to a bubble?

It's complex because bubbles look a lot like booms while you're in them.