bet
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In October, Sam Altman said OpenAI’s approach was like “betting on a series of startups,” followed by a “Code Red” competition alert in December.
And even before any tariff increases, hedge-fund bets anticipating the levies were pushing commodity prices higher.
Michigan and Duke, the other remaining No. 1 seeds, are placing big bets on him being dead wrong.
Hopes for the AI boom continue to support the market, with investors betting that money will keep pouring into data centers needing shed loads of new microchips.
In other words, this is a huge bet.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.