AI Boom Lifts Big Tech Earnings as Cloud Growth Accelerates

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Four of the Magnificent Seven reported earnings on the same day, with Alphabet, Microsoft, and Amazon posting double‑digit cloud growth and upbeat AI‑infrastructure outlook, while Meta beat revenue but signaled higher capital expenditure amid ongoing layoffs; the group’s AI push reinforces expectations that AI will lift cloud revenue and buoy stock-market resilience, as Mag‑7 together account for over 30% of the S&P 500 and plan about $650 billion in 2026 AI infra spending, even as layoffs exceed 92,000 this year.
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