Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Financial Engineering and the AI Boom

Nvidia Insists It Can Keep Printing Money to Fund the AI Boom
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-insists-it-can-keep-printing-money-to-fund-the-ai-boom-195e7d5e
The chip maker says its sales “flywheel” is more than robust enough to fund the financial support it gives frontier AI labs and data-center developers.


Nvidia’s $200bn ‘balance sheet-as-a-service’
https://www.ft.com/content/9a6947bf-9d4e-4489-80b9-2178ea657a67
Because ‘vendor finance’ are such ugly words.


Nvidia Has Become a Banker to the AI Boom, Putting It on Dangerous Ground
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/nvidia-has-become-a-banker-to-the-ai-boom-putting-it-on-dangerous-ground-94c03545
The financial engineering the company is using to keep revenue growing introduces risks that could eventually cause real pain. 


Related:
The AI bubble could be worse than the dot-com bust by Vivekanand Jayakumar, The Hill - 06/16/26
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5925202-tech-bubble-ai-driven-growth/