CoreWeave shares and bonds head for steep weekly losses over AI debt
THE SO WHAT
AI infra is now visibly priced as a leveraged bet on demand, not a safe cloud proxy—CoreWeave’s 15%+ weekly drawdown shows how fast sentiment can swing when debt loads meet rate risk. If you’re building on smaller AI clouds, add counterparty and refinancing risk to your vendor evaluation, not just GPU availability and price.
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