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Meta is already spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build out the infrastructure it thinks it needs to compete in the artificial intelligence race.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

One is access to money, in the form of sanctions relief and the unfreezing of tens of billions of dollars from its oil revenues.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Google and Apple are already closely tied, with Google paying out tens of billions of dollars every year to be the default search engine on the iPhone's Safari web browser.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

The California smartphone maker has lagged behind its competitors in the AI race as tech companies pour hundreds of billions of dollars into advancing their chatbots and investing in data centers and other infrastructure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

That doesn’t sound like much, but, when you’re running tens of billions of dollars with little effort and no overhead, it adds up.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis