✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-08-15
Exploring the impact of a revenue cut deal between government and industry
I believe the biggest story this week was the reported deal that would require a 👀 15% (originally 20% depending on the news source) 👀 cut of revenue that would be paid directly to… a government. In this instance, the US government and two companies; NVIDIA and AMD.
https://www.techmeme.com/250811/p10#a250811p10
Of course, allegations, actions, and historical instances of pay-to-play is not a new thing. For such a young country, 100 years of US history goes by in the blink of an eye. So, if “data is the new oil” holds true, the future of our AI value chain might rhyme with history.
