SMRTR AIJun 8, 2026Hacker News

AI Is Slowing Down

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AI's explosive growth requires generating over $2 trillion in annual revenue by 2030 — but companies are already hitting the brakes. Businesses are capping employee AI spending after discovering runaway costs with no measurable returns, signaling a dangerous slowdown just as OpenAI and Anthropic need revenues to roughly double every year through 2029 to cover their massive debt commitments.

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