Tech Giants Discover Perpetual Motion Machine, Patent Forthcoming (Probably)

A recent financial disclosure from the labyrinthine ledgers of Amazon and Alphabet has effectively confirmed what cynical market watchers have long suspected: the 'A.I. boom' isn't so much an 'explosion' as it is a self-licking ice cream cone of staggering profitability. Apparently, the secret sauce to infinite wealth involves selling each other the very same high-tech shovels used to dig for the next speculative gold rush, then taking a hefty cut of the (their own) profits. Economists, who traditionally relied on quaint concepts like 'demand' and 'product,' are reportedly scrambling to rewrite textbooks to include the new 'Meta-Transaction Loop' model, where the primary consumer is, in fact, the producer's other hand. This revelation promises to revolutionize capitalism, or at least explain why your smart speaker just bought another smart speaker, which then ordered a subscription to an A.I.-powered service for optimizing smart speaker purchases.