仅2026年第一季度，四大科技巨头的支出就达到1300亿美元，是2023年第一季度350亿美元的3.7倍，显示AI投资加速趋势。

AI硬件成本占AI公司总支出的一半以上(54%-62%)，这凸显了计算资源在AI开发中的核心地位。如此高的比例表明，AI公司的竞争很大程度上转化为对计算资源的获取和利用能力的竞争。这也解释了为什么各大公司愿意为芯片支付高价并积极投资自研芯片。

作者点出了谷歌在AI军备竞赛中的终极必胜策略：它不需要真正花完所有预算，只需通过持续的资本威慑拖死对手。当初创企业因融资困难而被迫退出时，谷歌即可削减开支并收割市场。这种“不战而屈人之兵”的资本博弈逻辑，使得高资本支出最终会转化为市场奖励的低实际支出。

for - stats - elites - top 10% - responsible for 50% of consumer spending

56:12 When the Community Treasury spends more of its money, people in the community have more to spend

Wow, the retired ones too? There's the ones that were already "spent"!

for - AI - future spending - trillion dollars - superintelligence by 2030

7.2bn - nearly 2bn is spend on cloud, all by themselves?

Americans can't stop 'spaving' — here’s how to avoid this financial trap by [[Jessica Dickler]] for CNBC

This according to US ambassador to Canada.

Title: Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions Authors: - Stefan Gossling - Andreas Humpe

• Abstract

  • Research question

    • Growing evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionally to climate change.
    • This study considers the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions,
      • and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5 °C (about 400 Gt CO2).
    • The study presents a model that extrapolates observed growth in millionaire numbers (1990–2020)
      • and associated changes in emissions to 2050.

  • Results

    • The share of US$2020-millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050,
      • and cause accumulated emissions of 286 Gt CO2.
    • This is equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget,
      • and significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5 °C.
    • Continued growth in emissions at the top
      • makes a low-carbon transition less likely,
      • as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest
      • is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize.
    • To this end, we question whether policy designs
      • such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters
    • will be sufficient.

// and if it is not sufficient, then what?

Blockchains solve the double spending problem in two ways.

(1) They enforce a complete ordering of all transactions, which results in a tree of possible histories. (2) They define a fork-choice rule that selects the canonical branch from the tree of all possible histories.

This is what following the PR schedule - instead of actual data is really about. It lets them cozy up and fill their bellies with overtime from the public trough.

American tax extortion victims should be demanding to know why Delaware County troopers are getting Federal overtime dollars to address a problem that is projected to be half as bad as last year.

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Apple privacy feature

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Jo Maugham QC on Twitter: “We are already pursuing a Government over the £108m PPE contracts it said it entered into with a chocolatier and a supplier of pigeon netting. I know there’s only so much of this weirdness you can take but here are two more. First Aventis Solutions Limited. https://t.co/6mUfCxdkRT” / Twitter. (n.d.). Twitter. Retrieved July 8, 2020, from https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1279311067785633793

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To contextualize, you can still spend a hell of a lot on development, but if you don't have costly mobilizations it can make it look like you aren't spending as much as others; in fact, you are arguably making 'smarter' investments?

Painkiller Lobbyists Spending Millions to Keep Americans Addicted

https://www.fbo.gov/ (Federal Business Opportunities) is the hub for all US government contracting documents, including RFPs (Requests for Proposals), RFIs (Requests for Information), and announcements of awarded contracts. This EFF page explains how this site is a good tool for journalists.