Artificial intelligence is losing the popularity contest in the United States, and that's bad news for some of Big Tech 's power players. The trend has implications for richly valued companies like OpenAI and Anthropic , which are both on the path to go public. It also threatens Amazon , Google , Microsoft and Meta , the so-called hyperscalers planning to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to compete for data centers to power AI. The latest signal of negative sentiment was extreme. OpenAI