{"id":21871,"date":"2026-02-05T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/google-parent-earnings-beat-projections-amid-plans-to-invest-deeply-in-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:37:43","slug":"google-parent-earnings-beat-projections-amid-plans-to-invest-deeply-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/google-parent-earnings-beat-projections-amid-plans-to-invest-deeply-in-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Google parent earnings beat projections amid plans to invest deeply in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet reports $34.5bn profit and revenue soars 48% in recent quarter as it plans a sharp increase in AI spending<\/p>\n<p>Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, and is planning a sharp increase in capital spending in 2026 as it continues to invest deeply in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">AI<\/a> infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/alphabet\">Alphabet<\/a> on Wednesday reported profit of $34.5bn in the recently ended quarter, as revenue from cloud computing soared 48%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/04\/google-alphabet-earnings-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3643ec7fce3f85ac2c8b704f2cd1dcdd537b9ba8\/206_0_3588_2869\/master\/3588.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3287261df4bff5346de51cbd46881e58\" title=\"Google parent earnings beat projections amid plans to invest deeply in AI\" \/>Alphabet reports $34.5bn profit and revenue soars 48% in recent quarter as it plans a sharp increase in AI spending<br \/>\nGoogle\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, and is planning a sharp increase in capital spending in 2026 as it continues to invest deeply in AI infrastructure.<br \/>\nAlphabet on Wednesday reported profit of $34.5bn in the recently ended quarter, as revenue from cloud computing soared 48%. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet reports $34.5bn profit and revenue soars 48% in recent quarter as it plans a sharp increase in AI spending Google\u2019s parent company, Alphabet, beat Wall Street expectations on Wednesday, and is planning a sharp increase in capital spending in 2026 as it continues to invest deeply in AI infrastructure. Alphabet on Wednesday reported profit &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/05\/google-parent-earnings-beat-projections-amid-plans-to-invest-deeply-in-ai\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google parent earnings beat projections amid plans to invest deeply in AI<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21871"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}