Markets & Money May 29, 2026 Circular Reasoning: The AI Boom Is Starting to Fund Itself Memory makers are now equity investors in the AI lab that buys their chips. Hank Reed on why circular financing is the oldest tell in the bubble playbook. Hank Reed
Big Tech May 24, 2026 Hyperscaler, Explained: Who Counts, What They Spend, and Why They Move the AI Market A hyperscaler is one of the handful of cloud providers operating at a scale that reshapes markets just by their purchasing decisions. Here is who they are and why their capex matters. Sam Whitaker
Markets & Money May 21, 2026 Three Headlines in One Week That Tell You the AI Build-Out Just Hit a Cycle Marker Nvidia beat earnings handily. Meta laid off 8,000. Samsung went on strike. Three headlines, one story: the AI cycle is rewiring real labor and real supply chains, fast. Hank Reed
Markets & Money May 9, 2026 The AI Power Build-Out Is the Largest Energy Project in American History Five companies are spending $400B on AI infrastructure this year, half of it on the electricity to run it. Nobody is calling this the energy story it actually is. Hank Reed