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Applied AI·September 18, 2026·1 min read

Two signs investors don’t have to fear an AI slowdown

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CoreWeave and Nebius reporting strong demand and rising AI chip prices says the constraint is still supply, not appetite. For operators, that means GPU access and cost volatility remain planning variables—lock in multi-year capacity where workloads are predictable, and keep a Plan B for burst demand.

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Seagate finds 'AI is increasing the value of data' but warns that 43% of businesses lack proper data storage infrastructure — 99% expect AI storage (and storage costs) to explode

If 99% of orgs expect AI storage costs to spike and 43% admit their infra is not ready, storage planning just moved from back-office to core AI strategy. Treat data lifecycle design—tiering, deletion, compression, and governance—as a first-class line item in any AI roadmap, not an afterthought for IT.

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Sources: the US "almost started a war" after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components

An AI-assisted intelligence report nearly escalating a conflict over hallucinated nuclear components shows how brittle human review becomes once AI output is wrapped in official formatting and urgency. Any organization feeding AI into high-stakes decision channels needs explicit red-team, provenance, and override protocols before the model touches the workflow, not after an incident.

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