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Programming note: ARPU will return next Tuesday to look at data center financing. Turning the Singularity into a Bookkeeping Problem There are two ways to announce a multi-billion-dollar technology acquisition. The first way is to explain that you are buying a strategic platform to optimize cross-model API

Programming note: * We've invited a small group of former leaders from frontier AI labs and enterprise software platforms for a limited Q&A series on whether enterprise AI adoption and spending are gaining real traction. We'll introduce the first Q&A topics and experts

Programming note: ARPU will return next Thursday to look at the US-China AI race. Project Finance Comes to Silicon Valley We talk a lot here about how the AI era has murdered the concept of "capital-light" software. But for decades, that was the entire foundational appeal

Programming note: ARPU will return next Friday to take another look at the financing of AI. The Micro-Macro Split If you want to understand how institutional investors are trying to process the $2 trillion AI infrastructure boom, a recent debate on X between two very different types of fund

Programming note: ARPU will return next Friday to unpack the divide among institutional investors over the AI trade. The AI Colonization Palantir CEO Alex Karp has a highly specific, highly entertaining way of speaking, which often makes it easy to dismiss him as eccentric. This week, during Palantir's

Programming note: ARPU will return next Friday to look at enterprise AI. Show Me the Money Earnings season occasionally produces a perfect A/B test in market psychology. This past week, two tech giants delivered similarly stellar results—and Wall Street reacted as though one had discovered a new profit

Programming note: ARPU will return next Friday to look at some assumptions behind the AI buildout. Trash-Talking Your AI Partner There is a distinct flavor of awkwardness in corporate tech that comes from spending $100 billion on a strategic partner, only to end up training your sales force to

Programming note: ARPU will return next Friday to look at Microsoft. The Audited Margins of AGI The thing about going public is that Wall Street does not trade in vibes. In the private markets, you can raise tens of billions of dollars on the promise of building artificial general intelligence,

Programming note: ARPU will return next Friday and take a look at recent moves by frontier AI labs. Not All FLOPs are Created Equal If you read the financial press over the last few weeks, you might have noticed a glaring contradiction in the AI compute narrative. On one hand,

Programming note: ARPU will return this Friday and take a look at the fragmentation of the AI compute market. Zuck's Accidental WeWork There are two ways to enter the cloud infrastructure business. The first is to spend twenty years meticulously building a global platform of enterprise software, storage,