{"id":203546,"date":"2026-04-09T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/amazon-ceo-defends-ai-spend-were-not-going-to-be-conservative\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:35:33","slug":"amazon-ceo-defends-ai-spend-were-not-going-to-be-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/09\/amazon-ceo-defends-ai-spend-were-not-going-to-be-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon CEO defends AI spend: &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to be conservative&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/09\/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-ai-spending.html\">Amazon CEO defends AI spend: &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to be conservative&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/09\/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-ai-spending.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/09\/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-ai-spending.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-09 09:13:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy insists that the company&#8217;s significant investments in artificial intelligence (AI) are worthwhile, aiming to secure leadership and future growth.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon plans to spend around $200 billion this year on capital expenditures, largely dedicated to enhancing its AI infrastructure, surpassing its tech peers and showing a near 60% increase from the previous year.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the large investment, Amazon shares have dropped over 4% year-to-date due to investor skepticism about the ROI of the AI spending.<\/li>\n<li>Jassy stressed the importance of these investments to capture a &#8220;once-in-a-lifetime opportunity&#8221; and meet high demand for Amazon&#8217;s AI compute solutions.<\/li>\n<li>For the first time, Jassy disclosed that AI revenue in Amazon\u2019s cloud computing segment has reached $15 billion annually.<\/li>\n<li>The custom chip business, comprising products like Graviton processors and Trainium AI chips, is generating over $20 billion annually, with triple-digit percentage growth year-over-year.<\/li>\n<li>Amazon expects to monetize a substantial portion of its $200 billion capital expenditure over the next two years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CEO defends AI spend: &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to be conservative&#8221; https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/09\/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-ai-spending.html Publish Date: 2026-04-09&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":203547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108139648-1746134589250-GettyImages-2188101054.jpg?v=1775738836&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-203546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203548,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203546\/revisions\/203548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}