Everyone has things to hide. It’s why we close the door when we poop. Just because your data is less valuable to a foreign government doesn’t make it better for you that they have or, nor better that you lose your privacy. Unless we demand open source and privacy first, without tracking and data sharing, we’re all screwed in the long run.

Yes, different mechanisms and different outcomes. However, that doesn’t make one better for business as you mentioned. They just act in different ways for all parties.

However, they are good for stock markets and large projects as investment vehicles, so they do hekp government, businesses and can be used to promote projects that benefit their members, eg union based ones can promote tjeir own industry.

The suoerannuation funds in australua have now grown large enough in aggregate to be market movers.

Most I’ve seen is because they don’t want to release their real financials. So it must be bad enough to spook investors even more than the delay.

Some countries, like Australia, where I live, have transitioned from defined benefits to defined contributions. Bond yields are still higher here.

Stop the avocado toast and buy bootstraps.

Americas credit is stretched. Bond yields are up. Not just in the USA, but elsewhere, which affects lending and investment, both of which ai companies need.

Ai can crash before then, if people stop investing money or loaning money. It doesn’t mean OpenAI run out of money straight away, but it means the projects they are involved in don’t happen, so the mountain of debt piles up and the sources of revenue dry up. So, it all happens faster and the smaller neo-clouds go belly up first.

Already an Aussie one just pulled its launch IPO due to lack of interest and were considering dropping their price significantly.

If the IPO prices of other companies drop significantly, it means the early investors make very little profit, for a lot of risk, so they start to look elsewhere too.

AI companies need huge amounts of investment over extended periods, so either scenario is problematic for them.

Not of they can’t buy computers any more.

I’m wondering if we’ll get a rise in old school tech due to high cost of ram, CPUs and gpus.

Windows will struggle if that’s the case.Linux will be fine.