{"id":1026853,"date":"2026-08-06T11:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026853"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:22:50","slug":"the-new-maths-ais-big-four-a-720-billion-bill-and-a-future-no-one-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/the-new-maths-ais-big-four-a-720-billion-bill-and-a-future-no-one-knows\/","title":{"rendered":"The new maths: AI\u2019s big four, a $720 billion bill, and a future no one knows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street is quite worried, and for the simple reason that Big AI are reporting significant increase in capital expenditure. There is finally a realisation with illustration of a fear many experts had previously shared regarding a rapid (and often misdirected) forward march of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. These numbers may prove worrying in the long run. Combined, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon, are now guiding toward capital spending that stacks up well past half a trillion dollars for 2026, a figure that\u2019s been revised upward at almost every single earnings call this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wall Street is quite worried, and for the simple reason that Big AI are reporting significant increase in capital expenditure. There is finally a realisation with illustration of a fear many experts had previously shared regarding a rapid (and often misdirected) forward march of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. These numbers may prove worrying in the long run. Combined, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon, are now guiding toward capital spending that stacks up well past half a trillion dollars for 2026, a figure that\u2019s been revised upward at almost every single earnings call this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026853","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026854,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026853\/revisions\/1026854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}