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October 31, 2026

The AI buildout now runs on debt: cloud giants borrowed $326 billion in a year

Debt at the five cloud giants tripled in 2026, and three of the four companies have no free cash left after the buildout.

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what matters in AI right now

01__usage_ai-training: this robots.txt line blocks AI training - Anthropic is already adopting itOctober 30
02Gemma 4 answers from orbit: Google switches on the first data-center-class TPU in spaceOctober 30
03Siri in China will call on Qwen: Alibaba's extension reads photos, PDFs and presentations01:32 AM
04The AI build-out bill spooks the market: Nasdaq opens at a two-month lowOctober 30