{"id":677916,"date":"2026-05-18T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677916\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T04:20:08","slug":"technology-funds-roar-back-as-ai-boom-unleashes-rally-in-semiconductor-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677916\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology funds roar back as AI boom unleashes rally in semiconductor stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australia\u2019s top technology investors have bounced back from a tough start to the year as booming demand for chips that power artificial intelligence unleashes an explosive rally in semiconductor stocks, fuelling bumper returns in April for growth-focused funds.<\/p>\n<p>Investors have piled into technology stocks amid signs that the giant AI providers are continuing to ramp up spending. The four biggest spenders \u2013 Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta \u2013 are expected to plough nearly $US700 billion ($982 billion) into capital expenses this year.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s top technology investors have bounced back from a tough start to the year as booming demand for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-677916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}