{"id":1006529,"date":"2026-05-02T09:58:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1006529"},"modified":"2026-05-02T10:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:58:46","slug":"tech-giants-ramp-up-ai-spending-but-returns-remain-uncertain-jefferies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/02\/tech-giants-ramp-up-ai-spending-but-returns-remain-uncertain-jefferies\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech giants ramp up AI spending, but returns remain uncertain: Jefferies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI): Global technology companies are set to spend unprecedented sums on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, even as concerns mount over weak returns and uncertain business models, according to a latest Greed &amp; Fear report by Jefferies. <\/p>\n<p>The report, titled &#8220;The mother of all capex cycles&#8221;, highlights that AI-related capital expenditure by major US tech players could reach about USD 700 billion this year and USD 800 billion next year, reflecting the scale of the ongoing investment surge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi [India], May 1 (ANI): Global technology companies are set to spend unprecedented sums on artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, even as concerns mount over weak returns and uncertain business models, according to a latest Greed &amp; Fear report by Jefferies. The report, titled &#8220;The mother of all capex cycles&#8221;, highlights that AI-related capital expenditure by major US tech players could reach about USD 700 billion this year and USD 800 billion next year, reflecting the scale of the ongoing investment surge.<\/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":[91,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006529","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=1006529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006535,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006529\/revisions\/1006535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}