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Alphabet is the holding company created in 2015 to sit above Google, separating its core search and advertising business from other ventures such as Google DeepMind and Waymo. This hub tracks Alphabet’s corporate structure, earnings, and strategy across its AI-related businesses.
Capital expenditure — capex — is what tech giants spend building AI data centers and chips. Here's what it means when that spending pushes a profitable company's free cash flow negative.
Read more →Alphabet posted its first quarterly free-cash-flow deficit as AI spending pushed capital expenditures to a record $44.9 billion, and raised its 2026 capex outlook to $205 billion.
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