Category: AI and Tech Capital

The Fall: A Short Story

The largest IPO in history was six weeks old when the sky began to fail. A short story in Ford Somerville Ford’s voice, set on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, the night the American AI operating layer went dark for the first time.

The Ruins: A Short Story

The Ruins short story by Scott Ortkiese. Friday, September 24, 2027, in the hours after the American operating layer has gone dark. A seventy year old writer in Houston keeps a Piketty ledger for his granddaughter in Boulder.

The Bailout Is Already Written: A Short Course on Private Credit, the AI Bubble, and the Life Insurance Trap Set for the American Taxpayer

How Apollo, Blackstone, KKR, and Ares bought the life insurance industry, financed the AI buildout with your annuity, and pre-wrote a 44-state taxpayer bailout.

Hey Governor Abbott, Don’t Fall for Musk’s Terafab Bamboozling of Texans: Here’s the real story, and it ain’t that pretty at all unless you’re part of the con

SpaceX’s own S-1 says Terafab has no binding commitments, no financial terms, and no obligation on Tesla or Intel to remain, before the Grimes County school abatements are countersigned.

American AI Domination? Not So Fast.

US Tech Oligarchs, Bankers, and Lawyers Fed Their Greed with a Closed-Source Shakedown. China Built the Alternative.

Not an AI Cold War: Rather, A Market Rotation in Favor of China.

How U.S. Policy and Greed Broke America’s AI Empire in Twelve Months

Американский пузырь искусственного интеллекта лишён смысла. Каждый его участник это знает. И тем не менее он раздувается. Почему?

Комната, в которой одобряется сделка, это та же комната, в которой демонтируется американская империя.

The American AI Bubble Makes No Sense. Every Party to It Knows. It Is Happening Anyway. Why?

The room where the transaction is approved is also the room where the American empire is being dismantled.

AI Revenue Was Always the Lie, and the Time Bomb Is T-Minus 18 Months and Counting, Not Four Years

Every dollar of the $2 trillion AI buildout was sold on a revenue story that never existed. The amortization cliff arrives in months, not decades; game over.

The $1.65 Trillion Nobody Was Supposed to Find: Read the Footnotes Before Someone Else Buys a Tech Stock in Your Name

How Big Tech financed the AI buildout off its own books, who actually owes the money, and why the bill lands on YOU!