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Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

TechCrunch AI Connie Loizos May 7, 2026
Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off
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# AI's Foundation May Be Cracking, According to Industry Leaders Top executives across the AI industry gathered this week and raised serious concerns about whether the current system is sustainable. Their worries range from practical problems like not having enough computer chips to bigger questions about whether the entire technological approach underpinning AI might be fundamentally flawed. The discussion suggests that the AI boom everyone's investing in may face unexpected obstacles that could reshape how the technology develops.

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tec

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