{"id":10857,"date":"2023-07-22T23:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T21:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/artificial-intelligence-boom-generates-optimism-in-tech-sector-as-stocks-soar\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T23:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T21:37:36","slug":"artificial-intelligence-boom-generates-optimism-in-tech-sector-as-stocks-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/artificial-intelligence-boom-generates-optimism-in-tech-sector-as-stocks-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence boom generates optimism in tech sector as stocks soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rush into AI has given the flagging technology industry a share price lift, but some investors still remain cautious<\/p>\n<p>US tech companies started the year in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jan\/06\/amazon-apple-tesla-elon-musk-job-cuts-tech-sector\" title=\"\">doldrums<\/a>, beset by a cost overhang from excessively zealous pandemic hiring sprees and fears about the impact of rising interest rates. Things were looking grim \u2013 then along came artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n<p>Tech stocks and the blue-chip S&amp;P 500 index have since been buoyed by breakthroughs in generative AI \u2013 led by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jan\/13\/chatgpt-explainer-what-can-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-do-ai\" title=\"\">ChatGPT chatbot<\/a> \u2013 and the promise of a new era of growth for the sector. The S&amp;P 500 is up 18.6% so far in 2023 while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite is up 35.7%. Six months is a long time in a fast-moving industry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/23\/artificial-intelligence-boom-generates-optimism-in-tech-sector-as-stocks-soar\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fed3de3b2904a328b7640ab294d67aefa9d6f2eb\/0_200_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bc3a758be86e16a775391ff31ad0f850\" title=\"Artificial intelligence boom generates optimism in tech sector as stocks soar\" \/>The rush into AI has given the flagging technology industry a share price lift, but some investors still remain cautious<br \/>\nUS tech companies started the year in the doldrums, beset by a cost overhang from excessively zealous pandemic hiring sprees and fears about the impact of rising interest rates. Things were looking grim \u2013 then along came artificial intelligence (AI).<br \/>\nTech stocks and the blue-chip S&amp;P 500 index have since been buoyed by breakthroughs in generative AI \u2013 led by the ChatGPT chatbot \u2013 and the promise of a new era of growth for the sector. The S&amp;P 500 is up 18.6% so far in 2023 while the tech-heavy Nasdaq composite is up 35.7%. Six months is a long time in a fast-moving industry. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rush into AI has given the flagging technology industry a share price lift, but some investors still remain cautious US tech companies started the year in the doldrums, beset by a cost overhang from excessively zealous pandemic hiring sprees and fears about the impact of rising interest rates. Things were looking grim \u2013 then &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/artificial-intelligence-boom-generates-optimism-in-tech-sector-as-stocks-soar\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Artificial intelligence boom generates optimism in tech sector as stocks soar<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}