⚡ GadgetGlow Bytes — FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2026 Tech Digest: Big Tech's $700B AI Spending Race, Google's $40B Anthropic Bet & More Your Friday briefing on the biggest technology stories shaping the week 💰 Story #1: Big Tech's AI Infrastructure Bill Surges Past $700 Billion Breaking The four hyperscalers — Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon — collectively reported over $130 billion in capital expenditures in the first quarter of 2026 alone, setting yet another quarterly record. The spending is overwhelmingly directed toward AI data centers, GPU clusters, networking infrastructure, and energy capacity to power the next generation of large language models and agentic AI systems. Wall Street analysts now estimate that total AI-related capital expenditure across the industry could climb above $1 trillion in 2027 , an extraordinary figure that reflects how deeply the largest technology companies are committed to winning the AI arms...
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