Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos applauds Italian Tech Week 2025, at OGR Officine Grandi Riparazioni, in Turin, northern Italy, on Oct. 3, 2025. Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos has argued that the huge surge of investment in artificial intelligence is fuelling a “good” kind of bubble, delivering lasting benefits for society even if share prices collapse as dramatically as his ecommerce company’s did 25 years ago.

“This is kind of an industrial bubble as opposed to financial bubbles,” Bezos said at a tech conference in Turin on Friday, drawing parallels with the dotcom-era investment in fibre-optic cable that outlasted many of the companies who deployed it and the “life-saving drugs” that emerged from the 1990s biotech boom and bust.

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