time billionaires

‘Time billionaires’ are hungry for risk — will it be their undoing? - Financial Times

The article introduces the term 'time billionaires' — a neologism for individuals or entities accumulating disproportionate control over temporal infrastructure (e.g., AI training data timelines, model update cadences, real-time inference latency advantages) — and questions whether their aggressive risk-taking around speed, deployment velocity, and temporal arbitrage could lead to systemic instability.