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Amazon and Intel Drop as AI's Grand Budget Meets the Quarterly Receipt
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Amazon shares fell 7 percent and Intel shares plunged 25 percent in premarket trading after earnings, as investors questioned whether massive AI spending by technology companies will pay off. The moves were premarket figures, not final closing prices. They show investors weighing the cost of building AI capacity against the returns companies may eventually earn from it. Technology firms have made large commitments to the infrastructure and hardware needed for AI, giving the subject a prominent place in earnings discussions. The market reaction illustrates a less romantic side of the investment: enthusiasm for a technology does not settle how much profit a particular company will make from it. Large tech stocks are widely held through funds as well as directly, so a sharp move can reach beyond investors who follow every product announcement. The companies' declines do not by themselves answer whether AI investments will succeed over time. They do show that quarterly results can turn a sweeping promise about the future into a much more immediate question about costs. A company can describe an investment as transformative, but investors still want to see how the transformation reaches the accounts. The server room may be enormous. The patience reserved for explaining its bill is not necessarily the same size.
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