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AI Bubble: ‘We’re coming to the end of this’ | Ed Zitron
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“It’s never been about what LLMs can actually do. It’s about the perception of AI’s potential.”
Author of Where’s Your Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins the Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the state of circular financing in the AI bubble after Nvidia floated a $250 loan guarantee to build OpenAI a data center and another $350 loan of GPUs to put in it.
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