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Big tech’s AI spending is accelerating (again)
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Tech companies such as Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon raised their artificial intelligence spending by billions of dollars.
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Four of the tech industry’s wealthiest companies made it clear this week that their spending on artificial intelligence (AI) was not about to slow down.
But the outlays from Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon – which all raised their spending by billions of dollars, saying they needed to meet demand for AI – are increasingly feeding concerns that the tech industry is heading toward a dangerous bubble.


