Apple Is Barely Spending on AI While Its Rivals Pour In $700 Billion. Is That Discipline or Denial?

There is a spending contest underway in big tech, and Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has declined to enter it.Alphabet lifted its 2026 capital spending plan to a top end of $205 billion last week. Amazon expects to invest about $200 billion this year, Microsoft has pointed to roughly $190 billion, and Meta Platforms plans as much as $145 billion. Together, that's more than $700 billion in a single year, the great majority of it aimed at AI (artificial intelligence) infrastructure.Apple's capital expenditures in fiscal 2025 were $12.7 billion. In other words, the world's largest consumer technology company is spending a fraction of what those four rivals will spend, combined, while they race to add AI computing capacity.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool