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    "title": "The AI bubble bursting isn't the end of AI. It's the price cut.",
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  "disclosure": {
    "attribution": "Written by Andrew Ramsden. AI tools assisted research and drafting; all outputs verified.",
    "accountable": "Andrew Ramsden.",
    "limitations": "OpenAI's revenue and loss figures are as reported by TechSpot, not from a filing. The dot-com fibre figures rest on one 2018 essay.",
    "references": "Six sources, retrieved and hashed on 26 and 27 August 2026, each figure quoted with a locator in the [SOURCED sidecar](/sourced/judgment-point-map.sourced.json).\n\n- McCullough, B. (2018, December 4). *An eye-opening look at the dot-com bubble of 2000 — and how it shapes our lives today*. TED Ideas. https://ideas.ted.com/an-eye-opening-look-at-the-dot-com-bubble-of-2000-and-how-it-shapes-our-lives-today/\n- PwC. (2026). *PwC's 29th Annual Global CEO Survey* [Press release]. https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/news-room/press-releases/2026/pwc-2026-global-ceo-survey.html\n- PwC. (2026). *PwC's 29th Annual Global CEO Survey* [Report]. https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/ceo-survey/2026/pwc-ceo-survey-2026.pdf\n- Sutton, R. (2019, March 13). *The bitter lesson*. http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html\n- Teare, G. (2026, April 1). *Q1 2026 shatters venture funding records as AI boom pushes startup investment to $300B*. Crunchbase News. https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/record-breaking-funding-ai-global-q1-2026/\n- TechSpot. (2026, June 17). *OpenAI made $13 billion in 2025 and lost $21 billion doing it*. https://www.techspot.com/news/112794-openai-made-13-billion-2025-lost-21-billion.html"
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