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Warnings bring new scrutiny\nRenewed scrutiny of AI poses a risk for the stock market, some analysts said.\nThe stock market has barely blinked this year, shrugging off the Iran war, a surge of inflation and a flurry of new tariffs.\nThe latest potential hiccup arrived in recent days as industry leaders sounded the alarm about artificial intelligence, a key driver of U.S. economic expansion and investor optimism, some analysts told ABC News.\nA flood of cash has poured into projects like data centers and advanced chips, delivering robust earnings and giving rise to optimism about what the future may hold, they said.\nPotential new guardrails for the industry and rising interest rates could dampen investment and cool off some stocks, some analysts said. 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Rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has soared 155%.\nThose gains have extended beyond the AI sector to companies as far-flung as construction firms tasked with building data centers and equipment manufacturers supplying those construction firms, Ivan Feinseth, a market analyst at Tigress Financial, told ABC News.\n\"It's the driving force for our economy right now,\" Feinseth said. \"We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in AI infrastructure.\"\nAI investment has accounted for roughly a third of U.S. gross domestic product growth in 2026, according to a study released by ING Markets last month.\nSome research, however, indicates AI remains challenging for companies to adopt. 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Warnings bring new scrutiny\nRenewed scrutiny of AI poses a risk for the stock market, some analysts said.\nThe stock market has barely blinked this year, shrugging off the Iran war, a surge of inflation and a flurry of new tariffs.\nThe latest potential hiccup arrived in recent days as industry leaders sounded the alarm about artificial intelligence, a key driver of U.S. economic expansion and investor optimism, some analysts told ABC News.\nA flood of cash has poured into projects like data centers and advanced chips, delivering robust earnings and giving rise to optimism about what the future may hold, they said.\nPotential new guardrails for the industry and rising interest rates could dampen investment and cool off some stocks, some analysts said. 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Rival chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices has soared 155%.\nThose gains have extended beyond the AI sector to companies as far-flung as construction firms tasked with building data centers and equipment manufacturers supplying those construction firms, Ivan Feinseth, a market analyst at Tigress Financial, told ABC News.\n\"It's the driving force for our economy right now,\" Feinseth said. \"We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in AI infrastructure.\"\nAI investment has accounted for roughly a third of U.S. gross domestic product growth in 2026, according to a study released by ING Markets last month.\nSome research, however, indicates AI remains challenging for companies to adopt. 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