Does Jensen's replacement have the industry connections, clout (or bully factor depending on perspective) and appetite to continue the circular financing? Its the CFO I think that is replacing him and they may have objected to these things all along and might have been over-ruled.
But circular financing isn't illegal, unlike all the other things you listed
A crash (or at least notable correction) is coming but I sure as hell couldn’t time when.
As they say, when you’ve won the game, it’s best to stop playing.
At this point we may literally get commercial nuclear fusion power (which has been “30 years away” for the last 60 years) before any of the other things happen.
Luckily/sadly, it seems there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my media... and all that was pre singularity.
Oh huh just noticed that bit of your post. Uhh I have news you might not like: they announced AGI months ago. You should check it out. It's pretty wild.
(...The design hack to make the geocentric models work. Maybe it's also a metaphor...)