Mythos, Muse, and the Opportunity Cost of Compute
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| Vol. I · Tuesday, April 14, 2026 · Issue No. 26 · 22 Stories |
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Mythos, Muse, and the Opportunity Cost of Compute
Ben Thompson argues that AI compute scarcity has rewritten tech economics from near-zero marginal costs to zero-sum opportunity cost allocation. Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI all face the same constraint: every GPU cycle spent on one customer is a cycle denied to another.
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