Jeff Bezos says it is hard to know whether AI is in a bubble, but that the technology is real. He argues that in such periods every experiment gets funded, good and bad ideas alike, making it hard for investors to tell them apart. The article notes that a JPMorgan basket of 41 AI-linked companies accounts for roughly 49% of S&P 500 market value, and the five largest hyperscalers are guiding toward about $800 billion in 2026 AI infrastructure spending, while AI-related revenue remains a fraction of that. Asked whether a retiree should own AI stocks, Bezos said he would usually tell a retiree to buy the S&P 500, a broad, low-cost index that already holds major AI companies in proportion to their size.
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