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The narrative presents a constant tension between exponential technological investment and the market's ability to rationally price or react to those shifts. The sheer scale of AI CapEx, compared to historical benchmarks, serves as a foundational fact, yet the context provided is mostly focused on divergent company earnings and specific, often anecdotal, interviews about the *experience* of AI rather than the structural mechanisms driving these investments. This framing risks obscuring the syste...