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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by jrjeksjd8d on Thursday February 12, 2026 @04:04PM (#46995131)
Matt Levine has put this forward in his newsletter - if you're moderately influential you can go on TV and tell people that "X industry will be dead in 10 years" because of AI and then profit from the inevitable stock dip.

Because we live in the worst possible timeline the end result for AI companies does seem to be "too big to fail", where these massive investments will get foisted on working class people via a bailout or an IPO and index inclusion.

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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by Esophagus4 on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:11PM (#46995994)
His newsletter (and podcast) are fantastic.
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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by sequin on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:34PM (#46996255)
I doubt talking heads on the TV can move markets.
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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by WheatMillington on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:30PM (#46998243)
I don't see why any AI company would ever be "too big to fail". I can't see why any government would be motivated to take the political hit of bailing them out.
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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by directevolve on Thursday February 12, 2026 @11:21PM (#46998894)
What if the president of the nation happens to hold stock in these companies?
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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by url00 on Friday February 13, 2026 @10:22AM (#47003700)
Once the bureaucracy is automated, there will be no "reasonable" choice.
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Re:Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-m... by techblueberry on Saturday February 14, 2026 @09:30AM (#47014803)
What if the head of that government was a lame duck president, and those AI companies personally funded his next yacht.
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