Generative artificial intelligence is now woven into academic life. In the United Kingdom, a March survey found that 94% of undergraduates use the technology to complete assessed coursework (see go.nature.com/45pced3). The scientific literature shows a similar shift: more than half of papers published in 2025 show linguistic traces of large language models (LLMs), compared with
Korean fried chicken with the chairmen of SK Group and LG. Yellowtail sashimi at Nobu with Larry Ellison and Elon Musk. Mapo tofu and whiskey with TSMC founder Morris Chang. People are so curious about where Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang eats, there’s a blog that tracks his sumptuous dinners out around the world. But the
“Is there an AI bubble?” is such a tired thought. Here’s something altogether more wired: The AI boom is paying off, but not in a way that the current equities market has accounted for. The success of the technology in one area of the economy could make the bubble real in another, more precisely. In
Almost every major capital spending boom during the past 200 years has ended in bankruptcies, consolidations, and tears—but also wins for the victors. The late 1990s buildout of fiber-optic networks, in which companies spent billions to pull dark fiber across continents and under oceans, saw borrowers like WorldCom, Global Crossing, and others go under. The