The AI Bubble Isn’t Bursting. Its Reflections Are.
This post was originally published in The AI Journal on August 19, 2026. Why the next chapter of AI security will be defined by tokenomics, sovereign models, and normalizing models as first–class software components. Every few weeks, someone asks me if the AI bubble is about to pop. That’s the wrong question to ask. There’s no single “bubble” that will pop and send us back to the pre-GPT ‘stone age’. Rather, there is an ecosystem of ‘AI bubbles’, each inflating on a different timeline, some combining and becoming more ‘stable’, others getting frothy and ready to pop, and each with very different consequences for the security leaders who have to live with the outcomes. ...