{"id":208473,"date":"2026-05-04T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/big-techs-massive-spending-is-back-in-focus-on-wall-street\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:40:17","slug":"big-techs-massive-spending-is-back-in-focus-on-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/big-techs-massive-spending-is-back-in-focus-on-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech\u2019s massive spending is back in focus on Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/04\/investing\/us-stocks-tech-ai\">Big Tech\u2019s massive spending is back in focus on Wall Street<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/04\/investing\/us-stocks-tech-ai\">https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/04\/investing\/us-stocks-tech-ai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 07:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnn.com\">www.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Wall Street is demanding more evidence that Big Tech&#8217;s massive investments in artificial intelligence will yield tangible benefits.<\/li>\n<li>The largest US tech companies\u2014Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft\u2014are spending hundreds of billions to lead the AI industry, collectively aiming to exceed $700 billion in AI-related spending this year.<\/li>\n<li>Investor scrutiny has intensified as tech companies&#8217; spending plans are now being evaluated against their lack of immediate tangible results.<\/li>\n<li>Market reaction to the first quarter earnings reflects this scrutiny: Alphabet&#8217;s shares rose 10% due to strong AI monetization, while Meta&#8217;s shares fell 9% as it lacked a comparable revenue stream from AI.<\/li>\n<li>The focus has shifted from hoping general AI spending will benefit everyone to identifying clear AI winners and losers.<\/li>\n<li>Major investors advise that careful selection of tech investments is critical as immediate returns from high AI spending become more crucial, especially for companies without revenue streams like Meta.<\/li>\n<li>Despite concerns about an AI bubble six months ago, resurgent interest in AI continues to boost market growth; however, the future success of these major tech companies&#8217; AI strategies will determine the sector&#8217;s overall trajectory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Tech\u2019s massive spending is back in focus on Wall Street https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/05\/04\/investing\/us-stocks-tech-ai Publish Date: 2026-05-04&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2026-04-29t160609z-1654797500-rc21zka1g4v5-rtrmadp-3-usa-stocks.JPG?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-208473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-general-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208473"}],"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=208473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208475,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208473\/revisions\/208475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}