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Altman and Amodei want more time. These companies have to pay for it.

CoreWeave, Nebius, IREN and WhiteFiber have capacity to build and customers to serve. A slower frontier could protect software incumbents while testing the financing behind the AI cloud boom.

September 14, 2026 · 5 min read

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September 9, 2026 · 4 min read
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The real bottleneck was never chips. It was megawatts.
September 9, 2026 · 3 min read

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Altman and Amodei want more time. These companies have to pay for it.

More coverage

OpenAI's next raise assumes a number nobody will say out loud

Who gets paid when a model gets smarter: a follow-the-invoice map.

OpenAI boots Adobe out of ChatGPT while its own kingdom shrinks

The real bottleneck was never chips. It was megawatts.