{"id":157107,"date":"2026-09-07T12:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157107"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:30:08","slug":"ai-titans-circular-deals-are-starting-to-look-like-daisy-chainsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=157107","title":{"rendered":"AI titans\u2019 \u2018circular deals\u2019 are starting to look like \u2018daisy chains\u2019United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe \u201ccircular deals\u201d among AI titans increasingly resemble the \u201cdaisy chains\u201d of the 1980s savings-and-loan crisis.<br \/>\nForty years ago, interconnected transactions obscured the dangers, multiplied systemic risks and helped inflate asset values before roughly a third of US thrift banks failed. Today\u2019s financial engineering \u2013 an incestuous ecosystem of interlocking multi-year commitments to provide financing, buy semiconductors, secure gigawatts of power and lease data centres \u2013 could meet a similar&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/world-opinion\/article\/3366149\/ai-titans-circular-deals-are-starting-look-daisy-chains?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostThe \u201ccircular deals\u201d among AI titans increasingly resemble the \u201cdaisy chains\u201d of the 1980s savings-and-loan crisis. Forty years ago, interconnected transactions&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}