2026-02-13
22 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host Rosie Blau.
Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
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First up though.
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft plan to spend a combined total
of $660 billion on AI over the next year.
Those massive sums signal the enormous hopes being pinned on the technology.
Yet they also make people nervous, because that's a lot of cash to put in
before those firms are getting very much out.
Making some fear that the price of stocks in the companies
going big on artificial intelligence could actually be artificially high.
In recent weeks we've seen big companies announce