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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031

Ed Zitron · MONDAY, MAY 4, 2026

The AI Compute Demand Figures Were Fabricated and Everyone Kept Investing

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT

The projections were cited in forty-three separate funding rounds. The underlying data has not been located. Adequate has checked the sources. The sources cited each other. Adequate has a diagram. The diagram is a circle.

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