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From 2 August the Commission can act against providers of general-purpose AI models sold in the EU, a group that includes US developers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Microsoft as well as Europe's Mistral…
Palantir is one of the few listed software companies reporting AI-driven revenue growth near 100%: $1.935 billion in the quarter, with US businesses paying $764 million and the US government $809 million. The $2.132…
Amazon's capex plan of $220 billion for 2026, $20 billion more than before, is the largest single-company figure among the cloud providers and turned free cash flow to negative $7.6 billion from an $18.2 billion inflow…
Meta funds its AI build-out from advertising cash flow rather than cloud contracts, and the quarter shows how much of it that now absorbs: $31.08 billion of capex left $784 million of free cash flow on $60.80 billion…
Microsoft's $35.8 billion of quarterly additions to property and equipment, about twice the year-earlier figure, is paid to chip, server and data-centre suppliers. What it earns in return shows in the $678 billion of…
An 8.2% AI share of $5,082 million implies a little over $400 million of AI revenue in the quarter for India's second-largest IT exporter, which gives investors a figure to set beside TCS's $2.6 billion annualised…
SAP is paying for AI capability out of this year's profit: the two acquisitions take more than €100 million off its 2026 operating profit outlook, now €11.8-12.2 billion. Against that, a current cloud backlog of €22.9…
Alphabet's capex guidance of up to $205 billion for 2026 is money paid largely to chip, server, networking and construction suppliers, and the $44.9 billion spent in one quarter was enough to turn free cash flow to…
Wipro's numbers show AI-led deals being signed without yet lifting revenue: large deal bookings grew 12.9% to $1.63 billion, but IT services revenue fell 1.4% on the quarter to $2.61 billion and the guided range of…
TSMC makes the advanced chips designed by Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom and Apple, so its $60-64 billion capex budget is revenue for equipment makers such as ASML and a gauge of how much AI chip supply can grow. The extra $100…
ASML is the only supplier of the EUV lithography machines used for leading-edge AI chips, so its guidance of €43-45 billion in 2026 sales shows how much of chipmakers' capital spending reaches Europe's largest…
Advanced AI at $171 million is under 5% of HCLTech's $3.65 billion quarterly revenue but is growing 62.1% a year against 2.6% for the company overall. The planned outlay of up to Rs 3,500 crore on AI data centres…
TCS is the first large Indian IT exporter to give a running dollar figure for AI work: $2.6 billion annualised, growing 13.6% in one quarter while group revenue grew 2.2%. The $9.5 billion of contract value signed in…
The delay gives European software and industrial groups that build AI into their products, such as SAP, Siemens and Dassault Systèmes, as well as medical-device makers, more time and lower near-term compliance…
Hyperscaler capex is revenue for chip designers, memory makers, server and networking vendors, and for the utilities, power-equipment makers and contractors building data-centre capacity. The same spending weighs on…
Guidance from India's second-largest IT services company is read as a gauge of sector demand for the year. A low single-digit band, which analysts tied to AI-led pricing deflation, puts pressure on revenue growth and…