Empire

Jason Yanowitz × Santiago Roel Santos × Rob

AI-linked equities are repricing frontier-model financing, with 20–30% declines, routine 10% daily moves, and Anthropic’s apparent slowdown challenging the path from roughly $1 trillion of current capex to Jensen Huang’s roughly $4 trillion 2030 vision.CoreWeave debt near 15–16% and CDS implying roughly 60% default probability show how demand can be right while funding fails.Anthropic’s S-1 and neocloud refinancing are key tests as open-model substitution pressures margins.