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AI’s Lending Risk Getting Tougher to Compute

Myriad private deals mask scale of funding exposures

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Welcome to Going Private, I’m Sinead Cruise and this is Bloomberg’s twice-weekly newsletter about private markets and the forces moving capital away from the public eye. Today, we look at the worries swirling around software tech, the early interest in SRTs at one of Saudi Arabia’s biggest banks, and the breakdown of an unlikely investment relationship. But first we explore why the risks of AI lending are getting harder to track. If you’re not already on our list, sign up here. Have feedback? Email us at goingprivate@bloomberg.net

The global rollout of artificial intelligence is expected to consume an almost unfathomable quantity of capital. The risks borne by lenders are becoming just as tough to gauge.