Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images Forget gas prices and fertilizer. One of the biggest casualties of the US war on Iran could be your favorite AI chatbot. As the hare-brained conflict enters its fifth week, the tech industry is raising alarm about a growing shortage of helium, the odorless gas that makes birthday balloons lighter than air — and which, it turns out, is silently undergirding the AI boom. Per the Wall Street