backstop

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During the first week of November, OpenAI’s Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar made comments at a Wall Street Journal conference that appeared to suggest the company was looking to the federal government as a backstop.

From The Wall Street Journal

France and others have spent months trying to nudge Washington to provide a backstop to security guarantees they hope to offer Ukraine if the war ends.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the traditional model, developers and external investors—often infrastructure funds and banks—took on the risk of developing and constructing the project, with financing backstopped by the creditworthy tech company’s power purchase agreement.

From The Wall Street Journal

That’s why “if regional logistics and shipping lanes are impaired, that spare capacity becomes harder to deliver quickly and it doesn’t function like a clean backstop when the bottleneck is transport, not production,” he added.

From MarketWatch

That’s why “if regional logistics and shipping lanes are impaired, that spare capacity becomes harder to deliver quickly and it doesn’t function like a clean backstop when the bottleneck is transport, not production,” he added.

From MarketWatch