The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday there are "echoes" of the 1990s dot-com boom in the current explosion of AI-related spending by U.S. companies. The IMF released its latest World Economic Outlook report surveying the global economic landscape as part of its fall meetings with the World Bank. "There are echoes in the current tech investment surge of the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. It was the internet then. It is AI now," said Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, director of the IMF's research depart ...