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"So, you're saying a third of the stock market is tied up in seven AI companies that have no way to become profitable and that this is a bubble that's going to burst...?" (pluralistic.net)

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CWs: Cory Doctorow, newsletter, mentions of his upcoming book that he's selling.

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[-] lime@feddit.nu 113 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Microsoft "invests" in Openai by giving the company free access to its servers. Openai reports this as a ten billion dollar investment, then redeems these "tokens" at Microsoft's data-centers. Microsoft then books this as ten billion in revenue.

[...] Nvidia ... "invest[s]" tens of billions in a data-center company, which then spends that investment buying Nvidia chips. The the same chunk of money being energetically passed back and forth between these closely related companies, all of which claim it as investment, as an asset, or as revenue (or all three).

investing back and forth, forever

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Feels like when banks could lend x10 times their wealth, they'd just borrow lots of money forth and back, infinite money (and a good old crash)!

[-] Cargon@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

investing back and forth, forever

[-] ArrrborDAY@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 week ago

This is actually kind of scary. These huge tech companies that, for better or worse, form the foundation of modern life, could collapse overnight if the chips fall a certain way.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 1 week ago

We should tax financial transactions.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 11 points 1 week ago

i mean, there are no financial transactions in that quote.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 3 points 1 week ago

Tautologically tautological economics

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