Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Opting Out of the AI Boom

June 3, 2026, 6:27 PM UTC

Why is there not a no-AI index fund?

I mean, not literally. Keep Nvidia and Alphabet and the flavoring company and the toilet company; every company is an AI company now. But:


  1. In the next few months, SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI will all probably go public at massive valuations.
  2. They will be fast-tracked into the major stock indexes, because those indexes are designed to reflect the stock market, and reflecting the stock market, in 2027, will absolutely require big allocations to those three companies.
  3. A lot of people are happy about this, because they like AI, Elon Musk, rockets, etc., ...


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