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Follow the CAPEX: Q3 2025 Scoreboard
While every week is CAPEX week here at Platformonomics, this particular week is our quarterly celebration of insane infrastructure instantiation, aka earnings! We’re breaking the quarterly update out to a standalone post instead of burying it in the weekly newsletter. The four hyperCAPEX companies spent over $114 billion on CAPEX in Q3, up 18% from…
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Platformonomics TGIF #105: October 24, 2025
Platformonomics TGIF is a weekly roll-up of links, comments on those links, and perhaps a little too much tugging on my favorite threads. Get Platformonomics Updates By Email Still more narratives than dollars. News Did OpenAI Find the Money This Week? Announcing spending plans is easy. Paying for them is hard. Especially when the funding…
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They Don’t Have the Money: OpenAI Edition
Tl;dr another installment of They Don’t Have the Money (previous edition: Oracle) OpenAI’s Wile E. Coyote moment approaches. OpenAI is the generational company of generative AI (sorry Meta, sorry Elon, it isn’t even close). They defined the space and lead the market, combining enormous ambition with stratospheric spending plans, unironically projecting needs in the trillions…