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Bernardo de La Paz

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3. The key phrase here is "circular financing". It has begun.

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Mon Oct 13, 2025, 05:21 PM

Oct 13

Company N buys a stake in Company A which uses the money to buy chips from Company N.

(I don't see it in the excerpt, though it does obliquely explain it.)

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Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? [View all] highplainsdem Oct 13 OP

All the thing does is vomit rewrites of wiki articles and Klarkashton Oct 13 #1

And, I've Found Plenty Of Instances Where... ProfessorGAC Oct 13 #2

It's always supposed to get much better soon. Klarkashton Oct 13 #4

I've noticed that, too. highplainsdem Oct 13 #5

The key phrase here is "circular financing". It has begun. Bernardo de La Paz Oct 13 #3

There's also a cryptocurrency angle to the leveraging. Hugin Oct 13 #6

Missing a zero there - Musk said last spring that xAI was worth $80 billion. Now supposedly $200 billion. highplainsdem Oct 14 #7

Oh! Hugin Oct 14 #8

"Hype created bubble" you were, as usual, correct. Prairie_Seagull Oct 14 #9

Just read that BBC article, P_S - thanks! It's crazy that businesses have become so dependent on highplainsdem Oct 14 #10