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      "headline": "Oil Is the Headline. The Real Yield Is the Bill.",
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      "part": 6,
      "section": "Scarcity has three faces",
      "excerpt": "Ren puts the commercial point cleanly: Bloom is not selling electrons; it is selling time-to-power.",
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      "excerpt": "In Ren’s account, Bloom got Oracle running in 55 days.",
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      "section": "The rent will move",
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      "section": "AI meets the rate",
      "excerpt": "Ren, who remains fully invested in the AI trade, says a 10-year yield near 5% is the hurdle every long-duration growth company must clear.",
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      "section": "A shortage with a price",
      "excerpt": "Ren points to the income statements: Azure grew 43%, Google Cloud 82% and AWS 37%, its fastest pace in eighteen quarters.",
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      "section": "The first bill",
      "excerpt": "Ren, who follows the AI stack layer by layer, describes the economic shift: once software researches, chooses, executes and pays, it sits between shopper and seller.",
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      "excerpt": "“The unit of work is moving from the prompt to the objective,” Ren writes.",
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      "excerpt": "Ren says the cost of an error rises when software acts: a wrong chatbot answer costs a minute, while an agent can rebook a flight.",
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      "part": 10,
      "section": "A cheap top",
      "excerpt": "Ren looked at the same arithmetic on October 5 and titled a portfolio update “The Cheapest ‘Bubble’ I’ve Ever Seen.”",
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      "excerpt": "Ren warns that chip designs turn over faster than factories can be rebuilt; this year’s winning server could be beaten within five years.",
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      "claim": "AGI is not the investable trade; compute is, because Astra adds a second, inference-driven demand chain (more capable models, more agents, more delegated work, longer inference trajectories, more tokens, more compute) alongside the existing…",
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