The biggest tech companies are in strong financial shape. But spending on artificial intelligence is weakening them\u2014and altering the dynamics of their businesses in ways that should change how investors view them.<\/p>\n
Believing that AI is going to transform the tech landscape and the global economy, Microsoft<\/a> MSFT 1.37%increase; green up pointing triangle<\/a>, Alphabet\u2019s<\/a> GOOGL -0.78%decrease; red down pointing triangle<\/a> Google and Amazon.com<\/a> have gone on spending sprees over the past three years. Those companies together will have spent over $600 billion between 2023 and this year, if forecasts from the companies and analysts hold.<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a92025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The biggest tech companies are in strong financial shape. But spending on artificial intelligence is weakening them\u2014and altering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,4186,21573,66873,95941,289,83888,67210,290,41573,1096,5149,82629,314,15490,41570,13782,41560,41565,4595,6738,11441,18,86186,41571,14480,23114,41579,3334,65950,83910,19,41586,17,103522,103523,610,1722,3337,305,56380,86188,12602,102547,9436,44285,3439,86185,9588,83891,864,26243,82,61064,41580],"class_list":{"0":"post-183605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alphabet","10":"tag-amazon-com","11":"tag-amzn","12":"tag-applications-software","13":"tag-artificial-intelligence","14":"tag-artificial-intelligence-technologies","15":"tag-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning","16":"tag-artificialintelligence","17":"tag-ce-industry-news-filter","18":"tag-computer-science","19":"tag-computers","20":"tag-computers-consumer-electronics","21":"tag-computing","22":"tag-consumer-electronics","23":"tag-content-types","24":"tag-corporate","25":"tag-corporate-funding","26":"tag-corporate-industrial-news","27":"tag-e-commerce","28":"tag-earnings","29":"tag-economic-news","30":"tag-eire","31":"tag-etailing","32":"tag-factiva-filters","33":"tag-financial-performance","34":"tag-financing-agreements","35":"tag-gcapi","36":"tag-general-news","37":"tag-googl","38":"tag-humanities","39":"tag-ie","40":"tag-industrial-news","41":"tag-ireland","42":"tag-linki2-wp-wsj-0003111131","43":"tag-linki3-wp-wsj-0003111131","44":"tag-machine-learning","45":"tag-meta","46":"tag-meta-platforms","47":"tag-microsoft","48":"tag-msft","49":"tag-online-service-providers","50":"tag-oracle","51":"tag-orcl","52":"tag-political","53":"tag-political-general-news","54":"tag-retail","55":"tag-retail-wholesale","56":"tag-sciences","57":"tag-sciences-humanities","58":"tag-software","59":"tag-synd","60":"tag-technology","61":"tag-wholesale","62":"tag-wsj-pro-wsj-com"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}