Who pays for progress? AI's free lunch is over, and the barriers are back. Nvidia and Donald Trump

For three years, a picture of a cat in a spacesuit riding a flamingo cost nothing, at least for whoever asked for it. Last week, someone else sent the bill back, from a closed-door summons in Washington to a Texas governor-elect and activists inside a Microsoft site in Amsterdam. Markets call it a correction. What exactly would it be correcting back to?

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