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Happy belated earnings week to the titans of Silicon Valley: Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta all reported their recent financials in the past few days, revealing that the screen-time quartet will collectively drop a record $200+ billion this year kicking their AI investments into high gear.

They're trying to convince investors this is worth it. After its AI-related earnings disappointed Wall Street last quarter, Big Tech doubled down in the latest period: