Why The AI Oligarchs Lost Big In The Midterms // AI Inside #154
November 03, 202601:16:37

Why The AI Oligarchs Lost Big In The Midterms // AI Inside #154

This week Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dig into an election where AI data centers became a deciding issue, as Democrats flipped Congress and new governors in Texas, Ohio and Georgia promised to slow the buildout. Jeff argues the real target is AI's oligarchs, OpenAI rebrands data centers as "AI compute campuses," and Anthropic's revised S-1 shows $17 billion in quarterly revenue, nearly $900 billion in commitments and a warning that self-building AI may be imminent.

Also in this episode: Google tells schools that no AI means no Search, AI users work longer days, Gartner bets on open models, and the security firm behind the AI breakouts blames its own error. New episodes every Wednesday at aiinside.show.

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