Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the economics of the AI industry are far more complicated than simply chasing demand. In an interview with Dwarkesh Patel, Amodei pushes back on the idea that AI companies will follow a simple pattern of heavy investment before flipping a switch into profitability. Amodei reiterates the concept of the cone of uncertainty, where companies are forced to project their massive compute needs for the coming years because data centers are being built with a one to two-year lag. According to Amodei, the economics of the AI industry are heavily driven by demand and compute forecasting.…
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The chief executive of Goldman Sachs says the government will eventually be forced to get its finances in order as America’s debt burden hovers at historic highs. The latest data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) shows that the federal deficit will total $1.9 trillion this year and average $2.4 trillion annually from 2027 through 2036. Under the CBO’s baseline forecast, federal debt held by the public is expected to rise from 101% of US GDP at the end of 2026 to 108% by 2030, surpassing the previous record of 106% set in 1946. Debt is projected to reach 120%…
The asset management firm founded by billionaire George Soros is deploying tens of millions of dollars in AI names, including Microsoft (MSFT) and Broadcom (AVGO). Based on Soros Fund Management’s Q4 13F filing, the firm now holds 263,041 Microsoft shares, marking a 159% increase on a quarter-over-quarter basis. The company’s MSFT ownership is valued at $127.211 million, accounting for 1.5% of its portfolio. Soros Fund Management also boosted its positions in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSM) and Nvidia (NVDA) by 157% and 22%, respectively. The firm now holds $106.31 million worth of TSM and $124.14 million in NVDA. On top…
Banking giant Citi says it is looking at two investment plays as the market punishes Big Tech for going all-in on AI. In a new Bloomberg interview, Citi’s head of equity trading strategy, Stuart Kaiser, says the market’s reaction to large capital expenditure announcements has changed in recent quarters. Looking back to last fall’s earnings season, Kaiser points to Meta as an early signal. “I mean, I think back in sort of October and November earnings season, you started to see a little bit of a change in this reaction function. Meta back then was the key one, where they…
After years of dominance by the biggest technology stocks, Goldman Sachs says that 2026 will be the year when stocks crown a new winner. In a video update, Mike Washington, equities sales trader in Global Banking & Markets at Goldman Sachs, says the long-running outperformance of the Magnificent Seven has started to reverse in 2026. “In the last three years, the Magnificent 7 has massively outperformed the broader S&P 500 index. But so far in 2026, we’ve actually seen that trend reverse, and S&P equal weight has outperformed the tech-heavy S&P 500 index.” He says the shift reflects a change…
Anthropic says it has raised $30 billion in fresh funding, pushing its valuation to $380 billion as demand for enterprise AI tools accelerates. The Series G round was led by GIC and Coatue, with participation from a long list of major investors, including D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, MGX and others. The round also includes a portion of previously announced investments from Microsoft and Nvidia. Anthropic says the new capital will be used to expand frontier research, develop new products and build out the infrastructure needed to support large-scale AI systems. The company positions itself as a…
Google says state-sponsored hackers are trying to use its AI chatbot to sharpen cyberattacks against American targets. In its latest Google Threat Intelligence Report, the company says that China-linked threat actors have been prompting Gemini to help with reconnaissance, phishing campaigns and even vulnerability testing against specific US-based organizations. According to the report, state-backed groups are attempting to use Gemini across multiple stages of their operations, including command-and-control development and data exfiltration. Google says some actors are also experimenting with so-called “agentic” AI capabilities, assigning the model expert personas or asking it to perform automated security analysis. Google says China-based…
A prominent venture capitalist says OpenAI’s consumer dominance may be facing its first serious test based on the latest data. In a new post on X, Menlo Ventures principal Deedy Das says Google’s Gemini has rapidly gained ground on ChatGPT’s user base, reshaping how OpenAI is positioning itself for the next phase of competition. Referencing recent traffic data, Das notes that Gemini has grown to more than half of OpenAI’s monthly active users in just a few months. “This explains OpenAI’s clear strategic shift to coding and enterprise. They’re at a $20 billion run rate, but their consumer business is…
The $136 billion asset management firm founded by Ray Dalio says the AI boom is now at its most perilous state. In its 2026 Global Outlook, Bridgewater Associates co-chief investment officer Greg Jensen says the AI investment cycle has entered a more precarious phase, even if the boom itself is not over. “In terms of the phase, the AI boom is getting more dangerous… Last year, I said we’re not in a bubble. The bubble’s ahead of us. And what I was trying to get at then is that there were a lot of known things that were going to…
Microsoft’s AI chief says the automation of white-collar work is no longer a distant possibility. In a new interview with the Financial Times, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says artificial intelligence systems are rapidly approaching human-level performance across a wide range of professional tasks. “I think that we’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks. So white-collar work, where you’re sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer, an accountant, a project manager or a marketing person, most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to…