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But it remains to be seen whether it’s the hero, or the antihero.

AI summaries are keeping more users on Google, leaving many publishers and businesses searching for new ways to reach customers.

Some investors are already diversifying away from the biggest names in tech.

Nvidia became the latest tech giant to sell bonds on Monday, offering up $25 billion. Others — Amazon and Alphabet, notably — have also gone to the bond market in recent months.

Spending on AI infrastructure is consuming almost all of the revenue Big Tech firms are bringing in.

And some companies are buying their competitors’ chips.

The company’s borrowing tens of billions of dollars to build out data centers. Some of those bonds, in the United Kingdom, have a 100-year maturity date.

Big tech companies spent around $400 billion on data center buildout last year. That number is expected to rise in 2026.

Almost two thirds of drivers say they’re afraid of AVs.

Google, Facebook and Amazon will all be focuses of antitrust cases in the year ahead, but a Trump administration will take a different approach to antitrust enforcement than Biden’s has.