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Where is all the AI money coming from?
31 August 2026So far, we've seen about US$2.2 trillion invested in AI.
You have to wonder where all this money has come from, don't you?
I'm not a financial genius but it strikes me that a great deal of this $2.2 trillion must be imaginary money because I don't think any government would print that much new coin, for fear of the inflationary effects.
Now some of this has come from the enormous cash reserves held by big-tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, Apple, Meta and the like but a lot of it really does seem to have been "magic'd" out of nowhere.
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Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?
I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/
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