The $1.5 Trillion of Hidden Debt Fueling the AI Boom | Robin Wigglesworth of FT Alphaville
Hyperscalers’ off-balance-sheet lease and purchase obligations rose from roughly $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion, turning the AI buildout into…
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$3.6T Market cap · 2026-08-21
BDC on X
Microsoft’s results showed accelerating Azure growth, compute demand gains and operating cash flow growth above 30%, supporting the AI infrastructure trade despite lower reported capex from accounting changes.
BDC on X
$MSFT is showing us how to have your AI cake and eat it too. Zuck should take notes
AI’s Achilles’ Heel: Why Everything Hinges on Anthropic & OpenAI | The Weekly Wrap
Steve Eisman argues the AI boom hinges on Anthropic and OpenAI’s importance to hyperscalers, while weighing software, CoreWeave and Cisco…
Defending the Enterprise Castle from the Model Layer
Microsoft urges enterprises to keep AI memory, evaluations and orchestration inside their tenant boundary, making frontier models…
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