Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding(asia.nikkei.com)

279 points by NordStreamYacht 3 months ago | 153 comments

China's chip capabilities just 3 years behind TSMC, teardown shows(asia.nikkei.com)

94 points by rjzzleep 2 years ago | 85 comments

Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D(arstechnica.com)

400 points by PaulHoule 2 years ago | 180 comments

Ars Technica article on a Senate report finding major drug companies spend more on executive pay and shareholder payouts than on R&D, citing patent thickets.

Wikipedia downgrades CNET's reliability rating after AI-generated articles(arstechnica.com)

5 points by nabla9 2 years ago | 0 comments

$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX(freightwaves.com)

282 points by crescit_eundo 6 hours ago | 160 comments

FreightWaves news article reporting that six pallets of NVIDIA hardware worth $11.4 million disappeared during a truck shipment from Oakland, California to Fort Worth, Texas.

Hackers infect ISPs with malware that steals customers' credentials(arstechnica.com)

53 points by trelane 2 years ago | 16 comments

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt(futurism.com)

628 points by technewssss 3 months ago | 317 comments

Futurism article reporting that AI companies are using off-balance-sheet arrangements to hide large amounts of debt.

AI makes tech debt more expensive(gauge.sh)

436 points by 0x63_Problems 2 years ago | 213 comments

A Gauge blog article arguing that AI coding tools make technical debt more costly rather than less relevant.

US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears(bbc.co.uk)

190 points by mindracer 14 days ago | 182 comments

BBC News report on US tech stocks falling sharply, led by Intel, Amazon, Reddit and Roblox, amid investor fears over rising AI build-out costs.

US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says(marketscreener.com)

413 points by JumpCrisscross 8 months ago | 442 comments

MarketScreener news article reporting Fitch's finding that US private credit default rates reached a record 9.2% in 2025.

Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic(reuters.com)

356 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 338 comments

Reuters news article reporting that Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in OpenAI rival Anthropic, published October 27, 2023.

Spending on AI Is Becoming Almost Impossible for Businesses to Budget(wsj.com)

40 points by swolpers 1 month ago | 41 comments

Wall Street Journal article on how businesses struggle to budget for AI spending as token-based costs grow unpredictably.