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The AI market has become a rubber band, with a growing divergence between so-called hyperscalers and the companies selling semiconductor chips as software becomes cheaper to develop outside the West, according to Goldman Sachs.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 2026

You slice it the wrong way and, instead of a tender, juicy bite, you’re left gnawing on something that tastes like a rubber band.

From Salon May 22, 2026

But sometimes a disturbance can cause the polar vortex to stretch like a rubber band.

From Slate Feb. 25, 2026

"Think of it like a rubber band being pulled," Judah Cohen, a climate dynamics scientist at MIT, told AFP.

From Barron's Jan. 22, 2026

Pens and colored pencils held together with a rubber band.

From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes




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