The AI Bubble: Market Reckoning, Safety Concerns, and Productivity Shifts. Brandon Weichert discusses how OpenAI's plan to meet $1 trillion in spending pledges suggests serious bubble talk. This market reckoning will force companies to create marketable p
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 18 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI on the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Bachelor. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm joined by my good colleague, Brandon Weikert, of national interest. |
| 0:12.2 | This is the artificial intelligence report. |
| 0:14.5 | Brendan and I follow it very closely. |
| 0:17.1 | We use AI, and we read about the problems that are mentioned routinely in the front |
| 0:23.5 | pages of major newspapers about AI. What problems? One word, bubble. I go to the Financial |
| 0:30.1 | Times in these last days, and we have a headline that tells part of the story. Open AI, that's |
| 0:36.6 | Sam Altman, the young man from St. Louis. |
| 0:40.4 | Open AI makes five-year business plans to meet one trillion spending pledges, subhead. |
| 0:46.2 | New revenue lines, debt partnerships, and further fundraising targeted to cover enormous costs. |
| 0:52.4 | Why do they need $1 trillion? The ambition is very clear, |
| 0:56.0 | and it's in the body of the peace. This is the Financial Times. This is London, the PING |
| 1:00.5 | newspaper. These ambitious plans will need to become reality if open AI is to meet its liabilities, |
| 1:07.6 | as the group has made funding commitments that dwarf its income. |
| 1:11.9 | In the past month, Chief Executive Sam Altman committed to take more than 26 gigawatts of capacity |
| 1:19.9 | from Oracle, Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom at a rough cost of well over $1 trillion over the next decade, |
| 1:29.6 | according to the FT calculations. |
| 1:31.6 | Well, 26 gigawatts. |
| 1:37.5 | You've heard about the Colossus tube being built in Memphis, Tennessee by Musk Company GROC. |
| 1:39.1 | That's one gigawatt. |
| 1:41.8 | 26 of those are needed. |
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