Alphabet Sinks 6%, Amazon Slides 4% Amid AI Capex Anxiety Across the Hyperscalers
Investors worried AI spending will outpace returns as Alphabet’s free cash flow fell 47% and Amazon’s dropped 95%, while key researchers left Google DeepMind.
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Alphabet Sinks 6%, Amazon Slides 4% Amid AI Capex Anxiety Across the Hyperscalers
The post Alphabet Sinks 6%, Amazon Slides 4% Amid AI Capex Anxiety Across the Hyperscalers appeared first on 24/7 Wall St.. Alphabet (GOOGL) dropped 6% to $346 amid AI capex anxiety—hyperscaler capex topping $452B for 2026 while free cash flow falls 47% YoY, stoking monetization concerns. Alphabet faces AI talent exodus pressure as key DeepMind scientist departure fuels Reddit bearish sentiment shift to 32 from prior bullish 72 reading. Amazo…
Alphabet opened the week under strong pressure on Wall Street. The fall of its shares coincided with the departure of two high-profile figures in artificial intelligence, a context of growing doubts about the profitability of AI spending and new fears that models would end up competing as one more commodity. *** Alphabet’s shares fell 7% and headed for their worst trading day in a year. Noam Shazeer left Google to join OpenAI and John Jumper ann…
Alphabet Faces Pressure as Google Stock Drops on $85 Billion Share Sale and AI Talent Outflows
Alphabet shares plunged 5.6% to $347.53 as investors reacted to a $40 billion at-the-market stock sale set for Q3, leadership exits to OpenAI and Anthropic, and soaring AI infrastructure costs, despite strong Q1 revenue and Google Cloud growth; free cash flow dropped to $10.1 billion as Alphabet shifts to an asset-heavy model, raising concerns about dilution and capital spending. The post Alphabet Faces Pressure as Google Stock Drops on $85 Bill…
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