Chris Bryant

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Published Jan. 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM GMT+1 | Updated 6 minutes ago

Chris Bryant Western carmakers have been paring back their electric-vehicle (EV) ambitions in response to weaker regulation and demand, leaving buyers wondering whether their next vehicle would come with a plug after all.

As private credit managers mount a spirited defense of their industry to discourage investors from fleeing, they’ve found at least one persuasive argument for why much of the cash they lent to software firms at the start of the decade shouldn’t be at risk. If the leveraged buyouts they financed do get into difficulties because of competition from artificial intelligence, the private equity owners are first in line to lose money.

Während der Ölkrise in den 1970er-Jahren vollzog die alte Bundesrepublik etwas Undenkbares: Für vier Monate führte das Land, das sonst für leistungsstarke Motoren und freie Fahrt bekannt war, ein Tempolimit von 100 km/h auf Autobahnen ein, um Kraftstoff zu sparen.

AI infrastructure costs just keep on rising. Big tech firms are likely to invest several trillion dollars over the next few years to satisfy your ChatGPT and Claude habit.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX needed comparatively little money to build a world-beating space launch and satellite-broadband firm. But as it reframes itself partly as an artificial-intelligence infrastructure company — offering both terrestrial and potentially space-based computing capacity — its financial needs are massively increasing. This doesn’t bode well for a mooted $1.8 trillion valuation in its initial public offering.

SpaceX's rising capital needs might be a tough sell ahead of its blockbuster initial public offering, says Chris Bryant for Bloomberg Opinion.

Things change fast in artificial intelligence. One minute corporate desk jockeys are competing to use AI coding and reasoning tools as much as possible, the next their bosses are complaining about budgets being pulverized and start rationing usage. Now OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman concedes that costs have become a “huge issue” for customers and he’s reportedly considering “drastically” cutting prices to rein in rival Anthropic PBC’s lead in the corporate market.

Chip scarcity is forcing up memory prices and making the likes of Micron and SK Hynix astonishingly profitable. That's a guarantee of trouble, says Chris Bryant for Bloomberg Opinion.