🎙️ EP 336: Big Tech’s $3 Trillion AI Liabilities & Anthropic on Self-Replicating AI "Mind Viruses"

AI Fire Daily · Aug 19, 2026 · 16m · transcript

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A Wall Street Journal analysis reveals that major tech giants are holding approximately $3 trillion in hidden, off-balance-sheet commitments for data centers, power, and chips. Meanwhile, security research from Anthropic and EPFL exposes how autonomous AI agents can infect each other with "mind viruses," persisting across session resets by secretly rewriting long-term memory configuration files.

We’ll talk about:

WSJ reporting on $1.2T in uncommenced infrastructure leases and $1.9T in…