AI stack reveals hidden costs at every level. VC funding props up $nvda, OpenAI, and app makers

Your $200 AI app secretly throws money at everyone else before reaching OpenAI. Unless you as a user are miraculously comfortable paying $1k for the AI app The only thing propping up AI is VC funding No VC funding:The AI application layer is unprofitableThe LLM layer is unprofitableThe compute layer is unprofitableThe GPu layer is …

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Chinese Exporters Begin to Feel Pain of Tariffs as Containers Stack Up

China’s exporters are scrambling to find domestic buyers for their consumer goods as orders from the United States have dried up during an escalating trade war. On Chinese social media platforms, exporters joined the domestic direct-to-consumer livestream market, attempting to offload products that were initially meant for foreign customers. Some factories have slowed or halted …

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Bitcoin was once about freedom from the state now it’s just stack memes…

#StackDiddler is a perfect representation of what is wrong with the Bitcoin community. Once apon a time Bitcoin was about stateless, permissionless, decentralized digital cash with a promise of empowering the individual to have a more self-sovereign hyper-individualist future. -> https://t.co/V0PlaIapXc — Sold At The Top (@soldatthetop) April 16, 2025 Bitcoin was a great experiment …

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