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GI Greg Ipp On Marketplace (APM)

“There's a genuine concern out there that the companies have gotten ahead of themselves with the massive amounts of investment that they're promising without a strong timeline as to when the revenue, the profit will fall in place to actually make it worthwhile. Google, for example… their search revenue from ads is slowing down. So people are saying, is the money they make from AI really going to make up for whatever they lose on search ads?”

Marketplace (APM) · Money & Markets · October 2026

“There's a genuine concern out there that the companies have gotten ahead of themselves with the massive amounts of investment that they're promising without a strong timeline as to when the revenue, the profit will fall in place to actually make it worthwhile. Google, for example… their search revenue from ads is slowing down. So people are saying, is the money they make from AI really going to make up for whatever they lose on search ads?” — Greg Ipp, Marketplace (APM)

Context

Ryssdal asked whether AI, which is driving part of the economy, is making markets uneasy. Ipp ties the week's tech sell-off to doubts about when AI spending will pay off, using Google's slowing search-ad revenue as the example.

Transcript

Marketplace (APM) Around 07:07 into the episode
Speaker 2

That's right. And what the Fed wants to do is raise borrowing costs to make it more expensive, as you said, for people to borrow money, to use their credit card, to get a new car, to buy homes, to try to cool things down.

Kai Ryssdal

Right. Greg, we got a minute. Let's talk about artificial intelligence. We've got Kaylee Wells coming up on technology stocks, but AI is kind of driving this economy. It's driving part of what's going on in inflation. And the markets now are getting a little bit uneasy about it. It sure seems like.

Speaker 3

Yeah, I think there's a genuine concern out there that the companies have gotten ahead of themselves with the massive amounts of investment that they're promising without a strong timeline as to when the revenue, the profit will fall in place to actually make it worthwhile. Google, for example, we saw that even though they're still growing very rapidly in terms of their revenue, their search revenue from ads is slowing down. So people are saying, hmm, is the money they make from AI going to really going to make up for whatever they lose on search ads and so forth? And I think that question propagates across all these companies. And you're seeing investors who are not really asking questions about the enormous prices they were willing to pay for those companies now asking questions. We're seeing Intel down. We're seeing Google down. We're seeing, in fact, most of the big stocks that we associate with AI are actually kind of struggling this

Kai Ryssdal

year. Greg, you're up at the Wall Street Journal, Kate Davidson of Bloomberg on a Friday. Thanks you too.

Speaker 3

Thanks, guys. Thank

Speaker 2

you.

Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.

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