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Mark Cuban and Michael Burry warn the AI boom may have a single point of failure: Nvidia

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The post leverages the credibility and public profiles of Mark Cuban and Michael Burry to discuss a timely and critical topic in the AI industry. By presenting their warnings and supporting them with financial data and stock charts, the content creates a sense of urgency and importance, encouraging engagement and shares.

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Mark Cuban and Michael Burry express concerns about the AI boom's reliance on Nvidia, suggesting it mirrors the dot-com bubble. They highlight Nvidia's deep involvement in financing and infrastructure for AI companies, which could pose a significant risk.

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1Introduction of Mark Cuban and Michael Burry's warning about Nvidia's role in the AI boom.
2Mark Cuban's comparison of the current situation to the dot-com bubble and Nvidia's financing role.
3Michael Burry's tweet about Nvidia's credit default swaps and overreaching by #nvda.
4Stock chart showing Nvidia's performance over six months.
5Concluding thought on the potential single point of failure.

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Nvidia is mentioned as the core component powering the AI boom, with concerns raised about its market dominance and financial involvement with AI companies. Stock charts and financial data related to Nvidia are displayed.

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Mark Cuban and Michael Burry warn the AI boom may have a single point of failure: Nvidia GRIT ALL The All-in Podcast @theallinpod Mark Cuban: "A lot of data centers will be turned into pickleball courts." @mcuban: "What's happening now is the market leaders, Google, Meta, etc. they're borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars. And there's already a private credit problem right now. Just layer on private credit, and then you have these huge companies that have cash flow, but they're spending all their cash flow on CapEx, and then they're borrowing on top of that. That's planning for perfection. And that's going to be hard. And we're building these data centers, and if there's a price-performance curve on AI that minimizes the power requirements, there's going to be a lot of data centers that are going to be turned into pickleball courts. Everybody thinks that there's going to be so much more utilization. And there will be. It'll just scale like everybody expects. But there's going to be technological breakthroughs as well. Just like we saw fiber back in the day, it was all about putting in fiber. Then it went from 1GB fiber, to 10GB, to 100GB, and then there wasn't a fiber problem anymore. There wasn't a bandwidth problem anymore." Cassandra Unchained @michaeljburry There is a reason $NVDA's 5 year credit default swaps are going parabolic. All this overreaching by #nvda to push the circular spending to biblical proportions . CZ038477 Curncy NVIDIA Corp 79.4750 USD 1.885 Details OMGR News Credit Profile Research Bid 77.6400 Ask 81.3100 Price Chart YTD Chg 37.495 (89.32%) High 79.475 Low 38.700 Jul 28/26 CMAN NVIDIA Corp NASDAQ: NVDA 193.34 USD 0.43% +0.83 past 6 months Jul 29, 2:02 PM EDT Disclaimer 1D 5D 1M 6M YTD 1Y 5Y Max SIX MONTHS

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Mark Cuban and Michael Burry are warning that the AI boom has become dangerously dependent on Nvidia. Their concern: Nvidia isn’t just selling the chips powering AI. It has also become deeply intertwined with the companies buying them—through financing, investments and massive infrastructure deals. Cuban compared the setup to the dot-com bubble, arguing that Nvidia has effectively replaced the IPO market as the engine funding the boom. One major chip breakthrough from a competitor—or one misstep from Nvidia—and the ripple effects could spread across the entire AI ecosystem. Burry is focused on what he calls “circular spending”: AI companies raising or borrowing money, spending it on Nvidia chips and reinforcing Nvidia’s future revenue expectations in the process. He also pointed to a sharp rise in the cost of insuring Nvidia’s debt against default, suggesting that some investors are beginning to price in more risk. Nvidia shares are still up roughly 13x since the beginning of 2023—but they’re now about 18% below their May peak. Is Nvidia the strongest company in the AI boom—or has it become the single point of failure?