Big Tech's $750 billion AI bet collides with slowing core growth
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US tech giants are collectively spending $750 billion on AI this year while their core advertising, consumer and retail businesses show signs of slowing. In some cases those core businesses are being cannibalized by the same AI technology the firms are betting on.
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