The AI boom tests its limits
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Reuters
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:39.0 | Even as global conflict rages and economic worries mount, there's one force that seems |
| 0:45.6 | unstoppable. The Silicon Valley fundraising press release printer. Every few months for the past |
| 0:52.0 | couple of years, leading artificial intelligence labs OpenA.I. and Anthropic |
| 0:56.3 | have reliably announced some new funding round or strategic partnership or ships for equity deal or else. |
| 1:02.6 | As the announcements marched on, so too did their valuations, with the Sam Altman-led Open AI developer now pegged at $840 billion, and its arch rival at $380 billion. |
| 1:16.4 | Beneath the bravado, though, are unmistakable signs of strain in this historically prolific |
| 1:21.7 | funding machine. That tension is the focus of this week's viewsroom. |
| 1:28.3 | It's Amy. And it's Jonathan, and this is the Viewer this week's viewsroom. It's Amy. |
| 1:29.2 | And it's Jonathan. |
| 1:30.1 | And this is the views room. |
| 1:31.1 | Your weekly dive into the biggest topics in business and finance. |
| 1:34.0 | And Amy, this is just about the biggest topic in finance these days. |
| 1:37.4 | You taught up all of the various commitments that, say, Microsoft and Oracle and Google and |
| 1:43.7 | Amazon and et cetera have made, and you get to something |
| 1:46.3 | like 2% of last year's US GDP that they're promising to spend on data centers that are |
| 1:52.0 | stuffed with the chips that will run OpenAI or Claude or etc. And so, you know, you have this |
| 1:58.1 | kind of really, really, I think what is a world historic investment wave coming behind people being able to ask the computer to make an image of JD Vance wearing a particular hat, which is kind of beautiful in its way. |
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