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Profitability Has to Last Longer Than the Presentation
· New York time
The IMF identifies weaker or less durable AI investment and profitability as a possible trigger for an asset-price correction. The durability point concerns timing as well as enthusiasm: expectations can change if returns fail to persist, even when useful technology exists. Its report also identifies rising leverage and concentrated exposures as possible amplifiers. This is a conditional risk pathway, not a declaration that every AI business will fail. The uncomfortable financial question is whether obligations outlast the assumptions supporting them. A loan has never been especially impressed by a demo's ability to finish someone else's sentence.
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