AI blowback, the term for growing doubt about whether artificial intelligence spending will produce the returns that have been promised, was among the main subjects this week at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference. CoreWeave Chief Executive Mike Intrator was one of the executives who spoke to CNBC there. Broadband and Disney's free tier, the ad-supported no-cost streaming option, also drew sessions at the event.
The range of topics speaks to how much ground the current tech conversation covers. AI spending skepticism sits at one end. A streaming company's pricing strategy sits at the other. Broadband lands somewhere between them.