Are AI financing loops efficient or alarming?
Marketplace
American Public Media
4.6 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
OpenAI announced it will invest big time in chipmaker AMD, potentially in exchange for a stake in the firm. As AI investment has ramped up, similar deals have become common. Do these partnerships signal a strengthening sector? Or are they a symptom of an AI bubble headed toward a burst? Also in this episode: Regional banks merge under Trump appointees’ relaxed regulatory rule, retailers are optimistic about the upcoming holiday shopping season, and Houston’s housing market experiences knock-on effects of deportation duress.
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| 0:47.3 | On the show today, we've got investments in AI, consolidation in the banking industry, |
| 0:52.5 | and a trip to the fridge for a cold, creamy stick of butter. |
| 0:57.3 | From American Public Media, this is Marketplace. |
| 1:07.9 | In New York, I'm Kristen Schwab in for Kai Rizahl. It's Monday, October 6th. Thanks for joining me. |
| 1:15.1 | The federal government may be still at a standstill. It's day six of the shutdown. But corporate America keeps churning. |
| 1:23.3 | This morning, Open AI, the maker of Chat GPT, and advanced microdevices, a maker of chips, announced a major partnership. |
| 1:33.1 | OpenAI says it'll start using AMD's chips to power AI data center infrastructure in coming years. |
| 1:40.2 | And the arrangement allows OpenAI to take a 10% stake in AMD. |
| 1:45.8 | It's just the latest in a spree of massive interlocking investments between major players in the AI industry, |
| 1:53.1 | a ring of deals that has some investors excited and others worried about the risk of a bubble. |
| 1:59.8 | Marketplace's Megan McCarty Corino explains. |
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