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EZ Ed Zitron Ed Zitron Writes Where's Your Ed At, a newsletter on the AI industry's finances, and hosts the Better Offline podcast covering the same territory in audio.

“I've been looking for an explosion when you're looking for, to quote my mate, Casey, a dead body. It's a slow boil. You find corpses here and there. Things die. Things don't happen. Contracts don't get signed. Debt doesn't get raised.”

The Tech Report · October 2026

“I've been looking for an explosion when you're looking for, to quote my mate, Casey, a dead body. It's a slow boil. You find corpses here and there. Things die. Things don't happen. Contracts don't get signed. Debt doesn't get raised.” — Ed Zitron, The Tech Report

Asked whether CoreWeave has reached a tipping point, Zitron says it will not blow up all at once. With its debt trading at double-digit yields, he expects missed payments and failed fundraising, and he calls it a "disease-ridden company" rather than one about to explode.

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Ed Zitron

Yeah.

Isaac Pound

Which sums it up really nicely. And I was just wondering, like, how close you think we are to a bit of a tipping point with Coreweave?

Ed Zitron

…they buy things, whatever, but they're not holding quite as much. Why? It's probably because they don't think they're going to get paid long term. And to quote the CEO of the company from Margin Core, they're selling to willing buyers. But the thing is, it's not so much Core Weave and the AI bubble writ large. One of the mistakes I've made in my analyses is the early ones, I would say, is that I've been looking for an explosion when you're looking for, to quote my mate, Casey, a dead body. It's a slow boil. You find corpses here and there. Things die. Things don't happen. Contracts don't get signed. Debt doesn't get raised. So it's less that Core Weave suddenly explodes and more Coreweave misses payments and Core Weave cannot raise more debt. There was an analyst Isaac Pound that said that Core Weave needs to raise another 100 billion or so in debt by 2030. So across the next three years, at what? Like you're talking 10, 11, 12, 13% rates. At some point, even if you think AI is the most important thing ever, there…

Isaac Pound

for it. Go for it. Eager to. Go for it.

Ed Zitron

Okay. So we should launch into the Anthropic. So the reason that the markets are puking today, which is Thursday, so this will be running on Friday, is because Anthropic's Q3 numbers came out in a bleak from an investor meeting leading up to their IPO. Now, their Q3 numbers were they had $16.8…

Isaac Pound

They're making so much money off people stealing from us.

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