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Tyler Hogge predicts the US government will provide AI loan backstops

Tyler Hogge · OpenAI Requesting Federal Backstop? | Diet TBPN · Nov 7, 2025 · at 11:02

TBPN co-host Tyler Hogge differentiates between emergency equity bailouts and federal loan backstops for frontier AI infrastructure projects.

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“But a backstop of loans, I would expect that to happen.”

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