Are AI Companies Cooking the Books? w/ Sarah Myers West

Are AI Companies Cooking the Books? w/ Sarah Myers West

OpenAI just secured a bizarre financial deal with Nvidia — but the math is not mathing. Is the AI sector an actual market, or a series of high-profile announcements of circular relationships between a tiny number of companies?

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Alix sat down with Sarah Myers-West to go through the particulars of this deal, and other similar deals that are propping up AI’s industry of vapour. This is not your traditional bubble that’s about to burst — there is no bubble, it’s just that The New Normal is to pour debt into an industry that cannot promise any returns…

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Exhibit X: The Community

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Exhibit X: The Courts

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Exhibit X: The Whistleblower

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Exhibit X: Tech and Tobacco

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