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CoreWeave Piles on More Debt
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Fitch assigned CoreWeave’s proposed $2.6 billion senior secured delayed-draw term loan, DDTL 5.5, a ‘BB+’ rating with a Recovery Rating of ‘RR2’ this morning. It affired CoreWeave’s Long-Term Is...
AI 2040 Mistakes Technical Legibility for Political Feasibility
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AI 2040 is best understood as an aspirational design exercise, not a plausible geopolitical scenario. Its authors largely acknowledge this: Plan A is described as a recommendation rather than a...
Reading Hugging Face’s Download Distribution as a Signal About Compute Markets
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Summary
A July 9, 2026 snapshot of the 3,000 most-downloaded models on Hugging Face shows a highly unequal, power-law-like distribution. The leading model, `sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM...
Some Bitcoin Mines can be AI Data Centers; Most Can't
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For reasons that only the algorithmic gods know, I had a few conversations over the past week with people who seemed to be under the impression that converting bitcoin mining operations to AI data cent...
Compute Derivatives Basis Risk Primer
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This post attempts to present a taxonomy of basis risks for compute derivatives. Considering how nascent the market for compute derivatives is, consider the following to be a reasonable, albeit likely...
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