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“So, Applied Digital depends on CoreWeave, which depends on OpenAI, which depends on the continued willingness of investors to fund AI spending at a pace never seen before.”

Constructs a multi-layered causal chain that frames Applied Digital's success as contingent on a fragile sequence of dependencies, nudging readers toward a risk-oriented conclusion beyond what the sourced data alone supports.