In this week’s AI Update, we dive into the rapidly shifting landscape behind today’s sky-high AI valuations and explore why macroeconomic forces may be creating unseen systemic risks across the tech ecosystem. Pavan Agarwal breaks down how the unwinding of the dollar-yen trade, leveraged Bitcoin positions, and hyperscalers’ overreliance on overpriced NVIDIA hardware are converging to put pressure on companies like OpenAI—potentially triggering a broader contagion that could impact banks, data-center REITs, and long-term AI investment flows. This episode uncovers how tightly interconnected global markets, digital assets, and AI infrastructure really are—and what leaders in mortgage and fintech should be watching next.

In this week’s AI Update, we dive into the rapidly shifting landscape behind today’s sky-high AI valuations and explore why macroeconomic forces may be creating unseen systemic risks across the tech ecosystem. Pavan Agarwal breaks down how the unwinding of the dollar-yen trade, leveraged Bitcoin positions, and hyperscalers’ overreliance on overpriced NVIDIA hardware are converging to put pressure on companies like OpenAI—potentially triggering a broader contagion that could impact banks, data-center REITs, and long-term AI investment flows. This episode uncovers how tightly interconnected global markets, digital assets, and AI infrastructure really are—and what leaders in mortgage and fintech should be watching next.

Weekly AI Update with Pavan Agarwal: The AI Contagion Warning: How the Dollar-Yen Unwind and Bitcoin Margin Calls Threaten OpenAI’s Valuation

Created by mortgage professionals for mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute podcast hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken, and co-hosted by&nbsp;Marc Helm. Joining the program each week is Adam DeSanctis with his weekly MBA Mortgage Minute, Les Parker with his Macro Market Update, Matt Graham with a weekly Market Update, David Kittle with Originations Update, Alice Alvey providing a Legislative Update, Allen Pollack with his weekly Tech Update. The weekly updates are followed by the Hot Topic segment, which is an in-depth discussion about one of the hottest topics related to the mortgage industry. The program can be heard live each Monday at noon central or downloaded as a podcast. Each week thousands of industry professionals have found this to be an effective way to stay up on all that is happening in the mortgage industry. This broadcast is provided to the mortgage industry as a public service compliment of&nbsp;<a href="https://transformationalmortgagesolutions.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(210, 110, 50);">Transformational Mortgage Solutions</a>. We invite you to join us to listen and learn.

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Created by mortgage professionals for mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute podcast hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken, and co-hosted by Marc Helm. Joining the program each week is Adam DeSanctis with his weekly MBA Mortgage Minute, Les Parker with his Macro Market Update, Matt Graham with a weekly Market Update, David Kittle with Originations Update, Alice Alvey providing a Legislative Update, Allen Pollack with his weekly Tech Update. The weekly updates are followed by the Hot Topic segment, which is an in-depth discussion about one of the hottest topics related to the mortgage industry. The program can be heard live each Monday at noon central or downloaded as a podcast. Each week thousands of industry professionals have found this to be an effective way to stay up on all that is happening in the mortgage industry. This broadcast is provided to the mortgage industry as a public service compliment of Transformational Mortgage Solutions. We invite you to join us to listen and learn.

Created by mortgage professionals for mortgage professionals, Lykken on Lending is a weekly 60-minute podcast hosted by mortgage veteran, David Lykken, and co-hosted by&nbsp;Marc Helm. Joining the program each week is Adam DeSanctis with his weekly MBA Mortgage Minute, Les Parker with his Macro Market Update, Matt Graham with a weekly Market Update, David Kittle with Originations Update, Alice Alvey providing a Legislative Update, Allen Pollack with his weekly Tech Update. The weekly updates are followed by the Hot Topic segment, which is an in-depth discussion about one of the hottest topics related to the mortgage industry. The program can be heard live each Monday at noon central or downloaded as a podcast. Each week thousands of industry professionals have found this to be an effective way to stay up on all that is happening in the mortgage industry. This broadcast is provided to the mortgage industry as a public service compliment of&nbsp;<a href="https://transformationalmortgagesolutions.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Transformational Mortgage Solutions</a>. We invite you to join us to listen and learn.

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