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Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and other US tech giants are hiding $1.65 trillion in AI debt

Ripple effect: Amid growing talk of an AI bubble, a study by Japanese market analysts has found that five of the largest American technology companies are carrying a collective "hidden" debt of over $1.65 trillion, driven largely by massive spending on AI infrastructure. That undisclosed sum exceeds the $1.35 trillion the same companies have officially reported on their balance sheets, and it has grown eightfold over the past four years.

Samsung finally has its own credit card, seven years after Apple

Sony's digital-only future angers fans, but physical PlayStation games are barely selling

IBM's stock just had its worst day since 1968

SoftBank boss says the AI revolution will cost $5 trillion a year, also, there's no bubble

Sarah Connor warned us: Multiple reports are routinely confirming that the alleged "AI revolution" is not going the way Big Tech and VC investors would like it to. SoftBank's founder and largest shareholder, however, still believes the revolution will come to pass. AI skeptics, in his view, are simply on the wrong side of history. Or are they?

Steam just made $11 billion in the last 6 months, and most of it came from older games

Bottom line: Steam just posted its strongest half-year ever. In the first six months of 2026, it's estimated that games sold through the platform generated $11.1 billion in gross revenue, a record haul for the PC storefront. That figure is close to what Steam generated across all of 2021, a year boosted by pandemic lockdowns – also only 21% of that revenue comes from games released in 2026. The rest came from older titles in Steam's back catalog.

TSMC posts blowout $39 billion quarter, raising the same old AI question: is this sustainable?

Samsung will earn more profit in 2026 than it did over the previous 40 years combined thanks to the AI boom

PlayStation sales just had its worst May in 25 years, and Xbox's was the worst ever

Sony's best-selling PlayStation games this year are mostly ones it never brought to PC

SK Hynix just surpassed Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company

OpenAI made $13 billion in 2025 and lost $21 billion doing it

Bitcoin is down nearly 50% and the debate over its value is heating up again

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months and has little to show for it

SpaceX files for record-breaking IPO with rockets, AI, and Mars ambitions at the center

Bottom line: SpaceX has filed for an IPO that could become the largest in history, giving investors a detailed look at a business that spans rockets, satellite networks, and AI infrastructure. The filing portrays a company growing quickly but spending heavily.

Nvidia hits record $81.6 billion revenue as AI boom shows no sign of slowing

What just happened? If the AI boom really is a bubble that will one day pop, it hasn't happened yet. Nvidia, the driving force behind the hardware powering most of the AI industry, once again surpassed Wall Street expectations in its quarterly results, hitting a record $81.6 billion in revenue.

Motherboard sales are collapsing because AI data centers made RAM too expensive to buy

AMD's next Epyc server chip debuts this year with 256 cores and 70% better performance

AMD warns gaming revenue will plunge over 20% as memory prices drive up PC hardware costs

Apple's success is running into a familiar problem: not enough chips

Samsung's chip profit jumped nearly 50-fold in a single year, execs warn the shortage will get worse

Roblox Reality is like DLSS 5 for Roblox, except it invents photorealistic details the game never had

Google's AI bet is paying off: Alphabet posts $94.7 billion Q1 revenue, AI demand outpaces supply

Meta's AI bill keeps growing as spending forecast jumps to $145 billion

Intel's stock is back to near-record highs as AI boom moves beyond GPUs