Amazon Desires to Spend More Than $220 Billion in AI Capex This Year. That’s Why I’m Buying
Reported by Yahoo Finance · finance.yahoo.com · August 3, 2026
Amazon just handed investors a Q2 earnings report that raised a question most analysts are tiptoeing around: when a company at nearly $3 trillion in market cap accelerates its biggest business to an 18-quarter high while its free cash flow turns negative, is that a crisis or a signal?
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