Reality Check: Do AI Projects Deliver Return on Investment?   

Artificial Intelligence, Economics of AIBy Mat Newcomb23 August, 2025

It is now almost three years since ChatGPT was unleashed on an unsuspecting world. Two months later, it had 100 million users, making it the fastest adopted consumer application in history. A torrent of money was thrown at AI, from venture capital firms backing AI start-ups (a third of all venture capital went into AI…

Blowing Bubbles? – The Economic Impact of AI

Artificial Intelligence, Economics of AIBy Mat Newcomb23 August, 2025

There is little doubt that the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, and the tsunami of artificial intelligence (AI) investment that followed had a seismic impact on the global economy. In Q2 2025 $40 billion, or 45% of all venture capital (VC) funding, went to AI-related companies, according to Crunchbase. On the day that I…