There have been dozens of new billionaires and millions of new millionaires minted virtually overnight by the AI boom | Vox August 6, 2028

There have already been plenty of aftershocks to this emerging AI megawealth, like the stratospheric San Francisco housing market, the nerdmaxxing of sex work, and the proliferation of all-you-can-biohack peptide raves.

There have been dozens of new billionaires and millions of new millionaires minted virtually overnight by the AI boom.
But the most consequential, and perhaps weirdest, way this burgeoning AI-ristocracy plans to burn through its cash is by giving a huge chun…

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