Big Tech’s Soaring Spending on AI Is Eating Into Stock Buybacks

Bloomberg · Feb 20, 2026 · Collected from RSS

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After years of funneling cash to investors through stock buybacks, big technology companies are reining in that spending as they race to sink more money into artificial intelligence.

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