Oracle's Credit Default Swaps Surge as Barclays Downgrades Its Debt Rating
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Oracle's credit default swaps surged after Barclays downgraded its debt rating, sparking concerns about the company's financial stability and the broader implications for corporate debt and the AI-driven market.
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2) Is it all a gamble by not-that-intelligent people that have power over those billions?
3) Is it intelligent people knowing this will never work, just pretending for the grift, ripping off 2)?
It's fascinating and I can't wait to see how it's ending, despite knowing there is no happy end possible anymore. Either most people are replaced by AI and society as we know it ends or there is a gigantic crash waiting.
Eventually this will then crash down.
There are all these social dynamics at play that cause really smart people to do really stupid things sometimes.
AI can actually revolutionize the world. The best outcome of all these bets are bonkers. If one company can land it and everyone else fails, it’s trillions. I’m less optimistic what happens if 10 companies all have AI models with roughly similar performance. How much can they charge?
These corporate bonds combined with the rises in consumer debt (and defaults) doesn't seem to bode well. Everyone is borrowing..