Q1 alone saw the Big Four spend $130 billion combined — 3.7× the $35 billion they spent in Q1 2023.

Subquadratic has raised $29M in seed funding from investors including...

The price tag of the AI gold rush: $725 billion. Will it pay off?

The $500 billion AI data center initiative is projected to exceed 9 gigawatts of capacity by 2029

$500 billion AI data center initiative is projected to exceed 9 gigawatts of capacity by 2029

Even companies with the biggest IT budgets will need to prove returns on AI spending over time, especially if they're answering to shareholders on quarterly earnings calls.

We don’t do this just because it’s the 'right' thing to do, but also because it’s the smart thing to do.

I invest a [great deal of effort](https://simonwillison.net/tags/claude-code/) (that’s 105 posts and counting) in teaching people how to use Claude Code. I don’t want to invest that effort in a product that most people cannot afford to use.

We’ve lost the moral compass for what we invest into

OpenAI in particular [has raised over $290 billion dollars of investment](https://www.owler.com/company/openai/funding), and has not yet turned a profit.

Amazon is investing $5 billion in Anthropic today, with up to an additional $20 billion in the future

committing more than $100 billion over the next ten years to AWS technologies

Amazon is investing $5 billion in Anthropic today, with up to an additional $20 billion in the future. This builds on the $8 billion Amazon has previously invested.

Amazon is investing $5 billion in Anthropic today, with up to an additional $20 billion in the future

committing more than $100 billion over the next ten years to AWS technologies

Amazon is investing $5 billion in Anthropic today, with up to an additional $20 billion in the future

more than $100 billion over the next ten years to AWS technologies

Microsoft continues to participate directly in OpenAI's growth as a major shareholder.

Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described superintelligence in a blog post last year

Structure: $500M OpenAI equity plus $4B from TPG, Bain, Advent, Brookfield, and Goanna form a $10B LLC.

OpenAI pledged $1.5B to a joint venture called DeployCo, guaranteeing private-equity partners a 17% annual return floor over five years.

Companies and investors put $6.1 billion into humanoid robots in 2025 alone, four times what was invested in 2024.

Huge advances have been made in developing and building more capable models, driven by record investments—forecast by Gartner to grow to around $2.5 trillion in 2026 alone. In contrast, the investment in understanding how the technology works has been minuscule.

Anthropic has received investor offers that could value the company at around $800 billion, more than double the $350 billion valuation tied to its $30 billion raise in February

The United States leads in AI investment, but its ability to attract global talent is declining.

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they don’t have to spend it to win. It’s a defensive move for them, if they commit $50B, OpenAI and Anthropic need to go raise $100B each to stay competitive

AMI Labs is not building a product for immediate deployment. This is a fundamental research effort, likely measured in years before commercial applications emerge.

The clustering of capital and talent around this problem is itself a signal. The applications that most clearly benefit from world models are those where LLMs have struggled most.

sees his time at work as an investment in his future—not just a paycheck

세계화에 따른 디플레이션 압력으로 금리가 장기적으로 하락했고

The COVID experience provides a cautionary tale. The unstable economic outlook and higher interest rates meant banks were more cautious about financing some renewable energy projects. And according to the International Energy Agency, small to medium-sized businesses became more reluctant to invest in renewable energy applications such as heat pumps and solar panels.

Affect regulates another aspect of the performative relationship between past, present and future. Where the performativity of expectations relies on credibility, on being believed and expected, affect relies on (a form of) emotive investment.

W przeciwieństwie do Czech, kraje takie jak USA czy Włochy wciąż nakładają wysokie podatki na zyski z kryptowalut, sięgające od 15% do nawet 42%. Polska, z kolei, utrzymuje niezmienne zasady opodatkowania, traktując dochody z kryptowalut jako przychody z kapitałów pieniężnych i obciążając je 19% podatkiem.

Czechy zdecydowały się na rewolucyjne zmiany w przepisach dotyczących kryptowalut, które mogą przyciągnąć inwestorów z całej Europy. Premier Petr Fiala ogłosił, że sprzedaż kryptowalut, takich jak Bitcoin, będzie całkowicie zwolniona z podatku, pod warunkiem, że transakcja nastąpi co najmniej trzy lata po zakupie.

Cena złota przekroczyła 2700 USD za uncję Od początku tego roku złoto wyceniane w USD podrożało o blisko 32%, a w PLN o niecałe 33%. Metal zmierza do osiągnięcia najlepszego roku notowań od 45 lat.

It's either all button down and if you can't prove it, if you can't quantify it, if you can't put a number and financialize it,

You can’tinvest based on a tearsheet, but when I'mgoing to go analyze abusiness and breaksomething down,especially when I wasyounger, if I didn't reallyknow a business thatwell and I wanted to getmyself oriented in ahurry, I'd spend 5 or 10minutes with the ValueLine page and pages forthe industry, then Iwould read severalyears’ worth of annualreports and Ks and Qs.But I'd start with thetear sheet and then I'vegot a better long-termsense about where thisbusiness has been.

The study analysedindirect dependencies on ecosystem services and concluded that EUR510 billion, or 36% ofthe EUR 1.4 trillion in investments held by Dutch financial institutions, is highly or very highlydependent on one or more ecosystem services.

according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report (AR6), US$384 billion has so far been spent on climate action in urban areas, representing just 10% of what is necessary to build low-carbon and climate-resilient cities.

根据自己的年龄，可以依据上表的计算结果估计第一年需要的定投量。比如67岁退休，而现在是30岁，退休前还可以定投37年。那么想要退休时拥有百万欧元的资产，第一年要定投6500欧元，相当于每月投入542欧元。当然股市是有波动的，假如在定投的最后几年赶上了超级熊市，可能资产并不能在退休时达到100万欧元，但是只要再等等，总会等到牛市的。

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ETF指数基金和个股比有什么好处呢？ETF是大量股票的集合，买它可以很容易做到分散投资。全世界所有的大公司同时倒闭或者亏损的可能性是微乎其微的，所以持有ETF的风险是比较小的。而投资个股，运气不好就可能碰上大众尾气门这样的事件，对收益打击很大；运气再不好一些公司还可能会倒闭，血本无归。想自己买大量个股进行分散投资，则需要花费大量的时间和精力。

we're not in the economy of the 1950s anymore. And we act as though we are, that finance is this productive force and it's building, it's building wealth. Well, for the most part, it's not. It's, there's so much financialization, so many financial assets, that they've become an extractive force. And a big piece of this 00:06:37 is that we're not really distinguishing between productive investments and speculative investments

Oil and gas producers account for only 1% of total clean energy investment globally.

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the top 1% now being responsible for 17% of total emissions, the top 10% for 48%, and the bottom half of the world population for only 12% (in 2019).

By making an investmentup front to alleviate poverty, the evidence suggests that we will be repaid manytimes over in the lower costs associated with a host of social problems.

I just frowned at my cardboard boxes.I’m aiming to build something similar out of wood soon. But I also had an idea to build a bookshelf with drawers incorporated, a row of vertical draws on both sides of the shelf and/or one down the middle. Ideally creating book cubbies between the drawers where I could organize related books next to appropriate zettles. Not sure how attached to that idea I am though, seems like something I will like for the moment and find very novel in the future (pun certainly intended).

One goal is to generate positive income, also known as cash flow. Another goal is to increase the value of our investment, also known as capital appreciation.

What mutual fund SIPs are really about

Mistiming risk is minimal or very short-lived in all debt funds (other than gilt funds) and in hybrid categories other than aggressive hybrid.

it is only in equity funds/hybrid aggressive funds that you can turn market volatility to your advantage, by investing on dips and lowering costs. In the absence of that volatility, you get no averaging benefit; in such funds, as long as your timeframe is right, it doesn’t matter whether you invest through SIP or lumpsum.

A corporation whose principal purpose is to derive income from property is usually considered a specified investment business, and is not eligible for the small business deduction.

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They fail to recognize the value of an initial investment of time in future productivity.

The Rights Retention Strategy provides a challenge to the vital income that is necessary to fund the resources, time, and effort to provide not only the many checks, corrections, and editorial inputs required but also the management and support of a rigorous peer review process

Before embarking on the effort to scrape the web for new password breaches and compare against your entire user database you also need to consider the ROI. The beauty of the pwned passwords API and this, and other, implementations of it is that you can get a good improvement in your account security with comparatively little engineering effort.

Big banks beat profit expectations but warning signs grow

That context is also encompassing the behaviour of production companies, many of which have acquired the short-term profit expectations of the bubble years and are more engaged in stock buybacks, cost cutting, tax avoidance and quick deals than in R&D, training or other innovative activities with a longer-term horizon.36 As a result, massive amounts of money are sitting idle in the corporate world, in banks, financial companies and production ones. The longer this situation lasts, the harder and deeper the negative consequences on the economy and society

由於 USDT 的發行方式會使得其交易量高於市值數倍，其中很多部分是交易所的「資訊流交易」，意思是交易的 USDT 比實際存在的 USDT 多──交易所本身並不存在交易帳面上同等數量的 USDT，因此當 USDT 需求數量大增，使用者要提領 USDT 回冷錢包存放時，交易所很容易發生 USDT 缺貨的情況：這是這一波避險潮的潛在危機，若是使用者無法提領 USDT，對交易所的商譽衝擊將會相當嚴重，但目前投資人對於 USDT 的需求相當強勁，各大交易所正發生 USDT 嚴重缺貨的狀況。

Ontario’s postsecondary institutions play an important role in equipping students with the skills, knowledge and competencies required to succeed in a rapidly changing social, economic and technological world. Ensuring that postsecondary institutions across the province are equipped with the right space and technology is important to delivering quality higher education. To support this, the Province will provide more than $3 billion in capital grants to postsecondary institutions over the next 10 years.

Recognizing Indigenous Institutes builds on the Province’s historic $56 million investment in Indigenous learners, announced in the 2017 Budget, as an important part of a thriving postsecondary system and a key step towards reconciliation with Indigenous peoples in Ontario

That is why the government will invest an additional $63 million over three years to create the first Ontario Training Bank to serve as a one-stop shop for employers, job seekers and workers to access the skills training that meets their needs. The new Ontario Training Bank includes a refreshed set of services and programs3 that will: Help employers invest in the skills of their workers, and come together to train and recruit new talent; Provide workers with the ability to grow in their jobs and adapt to technological changes; Provide employers with access to essential skills upgrading, including digital literacy for their workers at no cost to the employer; Provide job seekers with support to access quality training to secure in-demand jobs and meet employers’ hiring needs; and Bring employers, industry associations and training providers together to develop skills programs that are tailored to the needs of the local economy.

Ontario’s skilled trades create careers leading to secure jobs and a good quality of life, and are also vital to the health and growth of the economy. Building on consultations across the province, the government is investing $170 million over three years in the new Ontario Apprenticeship Strategy. This investment will include: Expanding the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP), providing more high school students with trades-related hands-on learning opportunities; Improved guidance counselling resources and local labour market information for students, parents and educators; A new grant to promote pooled group sponsorship models for apprentices; A Local Apprenticeship Innovation Fund to increase opportunities for apprentices and encourage engagement within the apprenticeship system across Ontario, as well as support regional, local or sector-specific pilots where there is demonstrated market need;  and Continuing education opportunities for trade professionals.

Preparing Secondary School Students for the Workforce Preparing Ontario students for the jobs of today and tomorrow is part of the government’s plan to create jobs, grow the economy and help people in their everyday lives. The Province has taken the following steps: In March 2017, Ontario launched 29 pilot projects across the province for the Career Studies course. More than $10 million per year for four school years has been invested to help schools create more experiential learning opportunities for students. Since 2014, Ontario has funded close to 300 Experiential Learning pilots across the province, helping students explore a wide array of career opportunities both inside and outside the classroom

Students, parents, and educators have identified Grades 7 and 8 as crucial years where greater support is needed. That is why the government will invest more than $120 million over the next three years to help students prepare for success in high school by ensuring that flexible supports are available in response to local needs and priorities.

Province is introducing a Good Jobs and Growth Plan with $935 million in new investments over the next three years as well as long-term infrastructure investments.

Even in central Ho Chi Minh City, top-end properties are priced US$3,000 to US$5,000 per square metre, well below Bangkok where equivalent properties can cost up to US$7,000 to US$9,000 per square metre, and 5 per cent the price of Hong Kong. Annual rental yield for some high-end apartments in major cities at currently at 7 to 8 per cent, which is 1.5 to 2.5 per cent higher than those in Hong Kong, Bangkok and Singapore, according to Vina Capital.

We favor spreading priceand risk by building up and averaging out of positions over time rather than speculating onspeculation. A committed capital structure with significant capital reserves for staged follow-onsgives us the flexibility to build up our investments independent of market sentiment. We areshielded from having to dump assets on the market to honor redemption requests, avoiding thedreaded “death spiral” which can plague more liquid fund structures.

We fund the development of decentralized information networks coordinated by a scarcecryptoasset – or token – native to the protocol. Our thesis is that decentralization andstandardization at the data layer of the internet is collapsing the production costs of informationnetworks, eliminating data monopolies and creating a new wave of innovation.

Most of the use cases today involve compensating machine work (transaction processing, filestorage, etc.) with tokens: the building blocks of decentralized applications. But the greatestlong-term opportunity is in networks where tokens are earned by end-users themselves.

The way to play a consolidating market is to investheavily into the consolidating incumbents (which are likely to continue growing strongly for along period of time) and to invest progressively in the insurgent platforms that will grow tocommoditize the incumbent business models and create a new wave of innovation. We arefocused on the latter

Pantera Capital has had a thesis of investing into local exchanges since the inception of its venture capital fund. Local exchanges have an advantage of a local team who understands the culture and marketing of a specific geography in addition to having the relationships for banking and regulations. In June 2014, Pantera investigated and became the lead US investor in the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Korea, Korbit. Korea was a compelling geography for a local exchange investment because of the country’s familiarity with virtual currencies, becoming one of the first countries to adopt them for gaming, having a government that is pro-innovation, having a large mobile ecosystem.

You want your reward to give you greater awareness, greater affinity with life and a greater sense of your value and purpose in the world--not the value and purpose that you invent for your own delights, but the value and purpose that are intrinsic to your being here. This value cannot be exhausted. It will not leave you and will only grow as greater attention, time and energy are devoted to its expression and experience.

he expectation of romance in relationship exacts an exorbitant price, both immediately in terms of time, energy and attention and in a long-range sense. People lose so much over this pursuit and how little is their reward--a few moments of self-inflated pleasure or self-abandonment or a few moments of physical sensation, none of which can be maintained for long. The reality of the relationship can seem very depressing in contrast to the thrill of romance. That is because people invest in the romance and not in the relationship.

Most of the pleasures that are damaging to people are damaging because the investment is great and the reward is very small. In many cases, there is no reward at all. There is only investment and reinvestment. Here we have the contrast between fantasy regarding the pleasure and the real experience. How often have you been disappointed by the real experience of something because the anticipation was so great and so inflated and you had invested so much? Then the real experience came, and it really was not that fine after all. Observe little children around Christmas, how their anticipation and their expectations are so great. The investment of time, energy and attention is so great, but after the gifts are all unwrapped, there is disappointment. The investment is great. The reward is small. Consider how many times you were disappointed by things that you had hoped would be wonderful and magnificent. Why the disappointment? Because the investment was great and the reward was small. Recall experiences where you made an investment of yourself and there was no reward at all.

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