> Isn't most of the economy riding on the stock of these handful of companies though?

No.

Well, yes, because the US government has staked the future of the country's GDP on AI. They're even divesting from science as a whole and putting it into data centers.

Saying that AI will drive the future GDP is a very different thing from saying an economy relies on the stock price of a few AI companies.

Okay but political leadership of the US are literally are staking the future of GDP on exactly those few AI companies... $1.4trillion so far while universal childcare would only cost $40 billion a year.

It's a sick joke.

> political leadership of the US are literally are staking the future of GDP on exactly those few AI companies... $1.4trillion so far

Can you explain where you get that number from?

The information I have:

a) The government took a nearly $9 billion stake in Intel to support its chip-making efforts.

b) The Pentagon took a $400 million equity stake in MP Materials, a rare-earth miner.

c) Sam Altman has advocated that the US government take equity stakes in AI companies. Sen Bernie Sanders wants the US government to take 50% stake in AI companies! Nothing has come of it though.

d) Defense department AI contract value rose to $90.7B in 2026.

So I'm super curious where you pulled that $1.4T number from.