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AI titans’ ‘circular deals’ are starting to look like ‘daisy chains’

The “circular deals” among AI titans increasingly resemble the “daisy chains” of the 1980s savings-and-loan crisis. Forty years ago, interconnected transactions obscured the dangers, multiplied systemic risks and helped inflate asset values before roughly a third of US thrift banks failed. Today’s financial engineering – an incestuous ecosystem of interlocking multi-year commitments to provide…

AI titans’ ‘circular deals’ are starting to look like ‘daisy chains’

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