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Terminator talk? Eisman says, please
Steve Eisman basically looked at the AI apocalypse crowd and said: relax, take a breath, maybe touch some grass. The Big Short guy called runaway-AI fears "garbage" and dared companies that say the technology is too risky to do the unthinkable: postpone their IPOs and capital raises.
The part Nvidia investors can’t ignore
This wasn’t just a spicy CNBC segment. Eisman said Nvidia’s fate is tied to the health of the AI labs and the giant funding loop around them. If OpenAI or Anthropic stumble, he argued, the whole "chips → models → more chips" flywheel gets a lot less pretty.
And Nvidia is sitting right in the middle of that machine. The company is reportedly considering investing as much as $10 billion as an anchor investor in Anthropic’s planned IPO, which is peak 2026 energy: the customer base and the capital base starting to blur together like a bad Zoom background.
Why the market cares
Eisman’s bigger point is that the AI trade still depends on a few ultra-expensive winners staying healthy enough to keep spending like it’s a cheat code. He also hinted the safety talk may be less about doom and more about politics, regulation, and maybe even building a moat.
If he’s right, Nvidia doesn’t have an immediate problem — but it does have a dependency problem. And in markets, dependency is just risk wearing a nicer suit.
Big picture: the AI revolution may not be crashing, but the financing circus around it is getting more crowded, more expensive, and a lot easier to trip over.