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  "summary": "Ren appears in Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 of The Buildout. Part 6: Power Doesn’t Depreciate. Its Premium Moves.; Part 7: The Fed Hiked. The Long End Still Climbed.; Part 8: AI Lenders Are Financing the End of Scarcity; Part 9: Habit Was the Moat. Agents Are Draining It.; Part 10: The Bubble Is in the Denominator. Argued in Part 6 (Scarcity as a moat), Part 8 (Real cash, real use), Part 9 (Eighteen months, or less), Part 10 (A model, not a price).",
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      "excerpt": "Ren puts the commercial point cleanly: Bloom is not selling electrons; it is selling time-to-power.",
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      "section": "The rent will move",
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      "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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      "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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      "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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      "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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