{"id":1006144,"date":"2026-05-01T08:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006144"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:05:14","slug":"google-cloud-pulls-ahead-as-big-techs-ai-bet-swells-to-700-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/01\/google-cloud-pulls-ahead-as-big-techs-ai-bet-swells-to-700-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud pulls ahead as Big Tech&#8217;s AI bet swells to $700 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s blowout cloud growth has reset expectations across major tech companies, leaving investors to recalibrate which firms are delivering the clearest returns. <\/p>\n<p>All four of the U.S. tech giants that reported results on Wednesday signaled that spending on artificial intelligence would not slow down, with combined outlays now set to surpass $700 billion this year, up from around $600 billion previously. <\/p>\n<p>Alphabet shares jumped more than 6% in early trading on Thursday, while Meta stock fell nearly 10%. Amazon shares were down about 1%, while those of Microsoft dipped 3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet&#8217;s blowout cloud growth has reset expectations across major tech companies, leaving investors to recalibrate which firms are delivering the clearest returns. All four of the U.S. tech giants that reported results on Wednesday signaled that spending on artificial intelligence would not slow down, with combined outlays now set to surpass $700 billion this year, up from around $600 billion previously. Alphabet shares jumped more than 6% in early trading on Thursday, while Meta stock fell nearly 10%. Amazon shares were down about 1%, while those of Microsoft dipped 3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006164,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006144\/revisions\/1006164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}