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"Faced with this dilemma—where do you get a trillion dollars quick?—OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps." prospect.org/2025/11/07/o...

prospect.orgOpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American ProspectFor artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...

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I would rewrite that old adage of our American capitalist ideal for the real business welfare queens, to pulling themselves up by others (taxpayers) bootstraps to succeed...

Sounds conspiratorial, I know, but I really wonder if Oracle's foray into media (Tiktok, Paramount (CBS), Warner Bros (CNN) isnt about creating leverage to cover their massive (and massively risky) AI/data center investments.

Great work. A combo of massive govt contracts and soliciting govt equity stake is almost certainly the only chance for many investors in the "AI industry" to recoup their investment. We must strongly oppose this now with our politicians. We can't stop the bubble popping, but we can stop a bailout.

OpenAI is just following Willie Sutton’s advice— when you want money, go take it from where the money is. Of course, he was a bank robber. OpenAI will probably have to rely on accomplices in government to pull this heist off.