Five tech giants are hiding $1.6T in AI debt, using the trick that toppled Enron
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July 21, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
ChrisArchitect
Discussion on source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987863
zrn900
And they are using the special debt vehicle tricks that made the 2008 bubble and the resulting crash. This is an economic nightmare: https://makingsense.quora.com/AI-Bubble-Seems-To-Be-Using-Th...
whalabi
Is it just me or is this clearly written by Claude? The last heading is literally "The honest version" But otherwise throughout it just reads like Claude wrote it.
b3ing
1929 flashback? We already had a pandemic but no booming times