The company at the heart of the AI boom just revealed that five tech giants are set to spend 1.3 trillion dollars in a single year building artificial intelligence — perhaps the largest concentrated bet in business history. In this segment we look forward, calmly, at the human question behind the staggering number: this is an enormous wager on a future that will reshape all our lives, yet it’s being placed by a handful of companies on one continent — and the people making the bet and the people who’ll live with it aren’t the same. Why staying curious about who builds our future, with what money and toward what end, matters more than the argument we’re usually having.
