AI stocks are probably in a bubble — but might be worth holding onto, says Citadel’s Ken Griffin

AI stocks are probably in a bubble — but might be worth holding onto, says Citadel’s Ken Griffin AI stocks are probably in a bubble — but might be worth holding onto, says Citadel’s Ken Griffin Markets are starting to scrutinize AI, and that’s a good thing, says Griffin Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin says even if AI stocks are in bubble, they might be worth holding onto. There’s a bubble in artificial-intelligence stocks — but it’s no reason to sell, one of the leading figures in finance said Tuesday night. And any radical transformation of our economy is generally intertwined with a bubble,” said Ken Griffin at an annual conference run by Citadel Securities, the market maker he mostly owns.

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