Berkshire Prints $397 Billion in Cash and Greg Abel Says No AI for the Sake of AI
Greg Abel ran his first Saturday in Omaha by hoarding cash and refusing AI — the cohort vote against the $715 billion capex regime is now 5 to 2.
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Greg Abel ran his first Saturday in Omaha by hoarding cash and refusing AI — the cohort vote against the $715 billion capex regime is now 5 to 2.
When the same prospectus page lists OpenAI as customer, lender, and warrant holder, the bookbuild is no longer about chips — it is a referendum on counterparty geometry.
Five firms will deploy $715 billion of AI capex in 2026; two will not — and the two that abstain are the ones whose shareholders write the loudest checks.
Apple authorized a $100B buyback and a 4% dividend bump while running ~$13B in FY26 capex against the rest of the Mag-7 cohort spending $715B on AI.
The bond market gave Meta a ninety-six-billion-dollar order book; the equity market took nine and a half percent off the price; the same balance sheet got two incompatible answers.
Wednesday's pre-bell Disney print is the test of whether the eight ABC license proceedings show up in the 8-K headline or hide in the 10-Q cautionary statements.
A SAR 108.8 billion forecast turns the cartel-discipline question quantitative one week after the Sunday production add.
The 800 million expectation came in 200 million light and the full-year drag dropped 300 million while the backlog hit 63 billion.
PIF wound down LIV and bought into Paramount-WBD in the same week and the FCC petition is the documentary instance.
Eighteen months, two extensions, five facilities replaced, $20.07B of debt — and the syndicate that wrote it remains a row of blanks.