Published: Feb. 6, 2026 at 6:40\u202fp.m. ET<\/p>\n
During Super Bowl XXXIV on Jan. 30, 2000, 14 of the 61 television advertisements were for internet startups. Perhaps they should have heeded the advice offered by E-Trade\u2019s \u201cWaste of Money\u201d ad that year, which featured a dancing monkey and ended with the on-screen punchline: \u201cWell, we just wasted $2,000,000. What are you doing with your money?\u201d<\/p>\n
That Super Bowl was played just before the dot-com bubble burst. Fast-forward to 2026: This year\u2019s Super Bowl ads are heavily promoting AI, which may be the only indicator you need of whether AI is a bubble about to burst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published: Feb. 6, 2026 at 6:40\u202fp.m. ET During Super Bowl XXXIV on Jan. 30, 2000, 14 of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[1591,156128,291,85047,85030,289,83888,67210,290,9417,14074,297,17733,87187,1096,5149,85786,41564,6738,18,1306,45296,35567,1510,107341,13167,3334,83910,62676,19,5885,285,96763,156126,39536,3442,2003,17,14338,610,156127,1590,96767,2336,2983,156125,9436,44285,1585,85048,9588,83891,827,934,1086,3394,155283,82,69294],"class_list":["post-324500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-advertising","tag-advertising-public-relations-marketing","tag-ai","tag-analyst-comment","tag-analyst-comment-recommendation","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bubble","tag-capital","tag-chatgpt","tag-commentary","tag-commentary-opinion","tag-computer-science","tag-computers","tag-computers-electronics","tag-corporate-actions","tag-earnings","tag-eire","tag-electronics","tag-equity","tag-equity-markets","tag-funding","tag-funding-capital","tag-gemini","tag-general-news","tag-humanities","tag-hyperscaler","tag-ie","tag-information-technology","tag-internet","tag-internet-online-services","tag-invesor","tag-invest","tag-investing","tag-investment","tag-ireland","tag-llm","tag-machine-learning","tag-magnificentseven","tag-marketing","tag-online-services","tag-opinion","tag-personal-technology","tag-personaltechnology","tag-political","tag-political-general-news","tag-public-relations","tag-recommendation","tag-sciences","tag-sciences-humanities","tag-services","tag-startup","tag-stock","tag-stockmarket","tag-superbowl","tag-technology","tag-venturecapital"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}