Right. Steal the world's information and wrap it up as a set of numbers. Convince a bunch of billionaires that those numbers are worth a trillion. Then once you realize it's just another commodity and the competition is real, aim for "too big to fail", cozy up with the gov't and hope for a bailout.

It's gonna be real peachy when AI research backslides into a "national security" imperative to recoup their losses with defense contracts.