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Second-quarter reports coming later this month will likely show another period of blowout AI investments. Wall Street analysts estimate that combined capital spending by Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta Platforms surged 74% year over year to hit $168 billion in the June-ending quarter, according to consensus estimates from Visible Alpha.

The flood of new bonds to fund the artificial-intelligence build-out seems to finally be getting a little bit much for investors. The extra yield, or spread, investors demand to hold bonds backed by AI hyperscalers moved broadly higher on Tuesday as Amazon issued $25 billion of bonds, returning to the U.S. debt market just four months after it completed a $37 billion bond sale. The spread on Amazon’s 5.8% notes due in 2036 jumped to 0.7 percentage point from 0.63 percentage point on Monday, according to MarketAxess.

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July 7 (Reuters) - The world's largest technology companies are tapping debt markets and raising equity to bolster AI infrastructure, marking a shift for Silicon Valley firms that typically relied on

Another day, another massive bond sale from a company borrowing heavily to invest in artificial-intelligence infrastructure. Amazon is expected to issue at least $25 billion of new U.S.-dollar bonds today, just four months after it issued $37 billion of bonds in the U.

Amazon.com is looking to raise at least $25 billion through a U.S. dollar bond sale, Bloomberg ‌News reported on Tuesday, in the company's latest push ‌to fund its hefty AI investments. Tech companies have been tapping debt markets and ​launching equity sales to fund their costly AI infrastructure build-out. Big Tech, including Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Meta, are expected to spend more than $700 billion on AI this year.

Investing.com -- Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) started an eight-part U.S. investment grade bond sale on Tuesday, aiming to raise at least $25 billion.

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Big tech reining in its AI spending may be a tantalizing prospect for some. Second-quarter reports coming later this month will likely show another period of blowout AI investments. Wall Street analysts estimate that combined capital spending by Google, Microsoft Amazon com and Meta Platforms surged 74% year over year to hit $168 billion in the June-ending quarter, according to consensus estimates from Visible Alpha.

Amazon delivered a blowout first quarter in April, with net income nearly doubling and earnings per share crushing Wall Street forecasts by a wide margin, The Motley Fool reported. A closer look at the results reveals an unusual driver behind much of that outperformance, one that has nothing to do ...

Microsoft is cutting about 2.1% of its workforce, or roughly 4,800 jobs, the latest in a wave of tech layoffs as the Windows maker spends heavily ‌on AI infrastructure and uses the technology to improve efficiency across its business. Big Tech's ‌historic AI outlays, set to top $700 billion this year, are piling pressure on companies to show returns from the technology and ​offset the rising cost of rolling it out across their businesses. Microsoft announced the cuts on Monday following a rough stretch, with its shares falling nearly 23% in the first six months of 2026, their worst first-half performance since 2022.

Morgan Stanley said the recent weakness in U.S. semiconductor stocks is a sign that the market ‌gains are broadening, with investors likely to turn toward ‌AI "hyperscalers" as well as consumer discretionary, transport and biotechnology shares. In a note dated ​Monday, the brokerage said hyperscalers — an industry term for tech companies that are spending big on data centers — could benefit from a rotation away from semiconductor stocks as the AI cycle shifts. Although the ‌likes of Alphabet ⁠and Amazon have committed billions to scale up their AI infrastructure, skyrocketing the share prices of semiconductor ⁠companies, clear evidence that AI products can generate returns that justify the spending is yet to be seen.

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Comcast's Sky has agreed to buy the broadcast channels and streaming service of Britain's ITV for £1.6 billion ($2.13 billion), creating a British champion with the scale to compete with global players like Netflix, Amazon ‌and Disney. Sky CEO Dana Strong said the deal, announced on Monday and confirming a recent Reuters story, was a "defining moment", ‌one of the biggest in the history of British broadcasting. The combination of Britain's biggest free-to-air commercial broadcaster and the pay-TV ​company Sky would have been unthinkable just a few years ago, but the rise of YouTube and the streaming giants, has left traditional companies exposed.

Microsoft has become a big beneficiary of the AI boom.

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On June 12, Amazon engineers handed a report to the U.S. Commerce Department. Within hours, two of Anthropic's newest AI models went offline for every user on the planet. Nineteen days later, Anthropic got them back. The return of Claude Fable 5 to global availability on July 1 is the result of two ...

Synchrony provides card services to retailers, which can leave the company exposed to riskier consumers.

Investing.com -- Delivery speed is emerging as a key competitive advantage for retailers as AI-powered shopping assistants become more common, with Morgan Stanley’s latest analysis finding Walmart offers the strongest overall fulfillment model. At the same time, Amazon Now leads on raw delivery speed.

Anthropic has opened early talks with Samsung Electronics to manufacture a custom AI chip, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Claude developer has never built its own silicon before. It has relied entirely on chips rented from Amazon, Google, and Nvidia, and that dependence is now colliding ...

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Tesla said on Friday its robotaxi was available in Miami, ‌as the electric vehicle maker looks ‌to expand its autonomous ride-hailing operations. The expansion highlights ​Tesla's efforts to increase adoption of its self-driving software, a version of which it uses in the robotaxis and a key ‌part of CEO ⁠Elon Musk's shift from EVs to AI and robotics. Tesla's move comes ​as the ​robotaxi sector gains ​momentum, with competitors ‌such as Alphabet's Waymo and Amazon's Zoox accelerating their expansion efforts.

Water used at the power plants that supply electricity to data centers can be much greater than the water used in the data centers themselves.

An AI spending blitz is demolishing new Fed chair Kevin Warsh's argument for interest rate cuts with more price increases about to ripple through the economy