An index strips out AI and loses 45% of the benchmark

Claim

Goldman Sachs launched an S&P 500 index excluding everything AI-related, which removes roughly 45% of the benchmark, while the DOE's NEWTON program aims to cut nuclear waste lifetimes from 100,000 years to 300.

Reported metric: 45% of index

Reporting date: 2026-02-23 (not necessarily the event date)

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