Bankruptcy
Sep. 3, 2026
From dot-coms to AI start-ups: Same boom, different bust
While the dot.com and AI booms share similarities, the resulting company failures raise materially different bankruptcy issues involving intellectual property, data rights, licensing restrictions and technological value.
The rise of corporate investment in artificial intelligence (AI) recalls the dot-com boom of the late 1990s: Both were fueled by transformative technology, abundant capital and a fear of missing out on the next dominant platform. In each era, investors funded companies whose valuations depended less on current earnings than on anticipated future adoption. Yet while both booms produced speculative excess and eventual financial distress, the bankruptcy issues arising from dot-c...
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