The Securitization of Compute
When capital expenditure outruns cash flow, financial engineering arrives to bridge the spread. Over the past week, two conversations on artificial…
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When capital expenditure outruns cash flow, financial engineering arrives to bridge the spread. Over the past week, two conversations on artificial…
The core economic narrative underwriting the current wave of artificial intelligence investment is recursive self-improvement. The investment thesis…
At the International AI Summit in Dublin, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar took the stage to announce that the lab is holding back a break…
At the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, Microsoft introduced Maia 300, announcing plans to scale the third-generation inference processor across multi…
In sequential decision theory, the search problem is framed around optimal stopping. An agent gathers observations sequentially. Each extra query ca…
Goldman Sachs published an equity strategy note this week laying out the exact performance target required to keep the artificial intelligence trade…
Venture models projecting the economics of autonomous software treat agent labor as a pure inference calculation. You tally input tokens, output tok…
A calculator tells you what a number looks like under a set of assumptions. A decision service has to keep watching the thing that can change and te…
The standard venture narrative around foundation models assumes that technical leadership translates directly into pricing power. If you train the m…
Every major frontier lab currently bills compute like an electric utility. You pay a posted price per million tokens, accept a fixed rate limit, and…
When central bankers start tracking your corporate debt issuance alongside energy shocks and sovereign bond volatility, tech capex has officially en…
Originally published on deanlee.info . The financial disclosures inside Anthropic's initial public offering prospectus, reported by Reuters this wee…
An inventory system goes wrong before the coffee rush. Who gets the call? I made this argument about agents ( you can't sue an agent ), and it appli…
When three direct commercial competitors agree to establish an independent oversight body, the financial press usually frames it as responsible stew…
Monte Tarbox, chief investment officer of the $327 billion New York City Retirement Systems, recently walked away from a promising private equity fu…
On September 12, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay calling on the global artificial intelligence industry to volun…
Through August 10 of this year, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle issued approximately $220 billion of corporate bonds, according to BNP…
This first ran on deanlee.info . Greg Brockman called Astra AGI on launch day. The U.S. look-over was a voluntary 30-day window with no license atta…
AI is Burning Billions. Who Gets the Bill? One company's capital expenditure is another company's revenue. That works beautifully—until the money ha…
This went up first on my own site . I'm cross-posting it here because the people it concerns most are the ones who type for a living. I say that as…
ByteDance and the Motion Picture Association have given the AI copyright fight a more honest shape than most of the public argument around it. The a…
There are two honest ways to talk about the AI infrastructure boom. One starts with demand. Model usage is rising, enterprise budgets are moving fro…
In August 2026, Congo's Council of Ministers approved a collaboration convention worth about $1.26 billion to rehabilitate the Dilolo–Sakania line:…
В предыдущей статье я описал трёхуровневый Governance-стек, который делает автономных агентов безопасными, и закончил вопросом: сколько это стоит? 8…
This is obviously a bubble Jim Rickards, a former adviser to the CIA and Pentagon, warns that the United States is currently facing a tectonic econo…
A revenue chart that goes vertical does not tell you who pays. It tells you who gets charged. A friend who runs infrastructure at a 200 person SaaS…
This article is a re-publication of Rei-AIOS Paper 147 for the dev.to community. The canonical version with full reference list is in the permanent…