{"id":268345,"date":"2026-02-05T04:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/268345\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T04:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T04:09:12","slug":"google-parent-revenue-tops-668-billion-as-ai-spending-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/268345\/","title":{"rendered":"Google-parent revenue tops $668 billion as AI spending surges"},"content":{"rendered":"

The company expects capital expenditures between US$175b and US$185b in 2026, double its 2025 spending, to meet customer demand for AI products.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s core search and advertising business remained the primary revenue driver, generating US$82.3b, up from US$72.5b a year earlier.<\/p>\n

YouTube advertising revenues also grew strongly to US$11.4b from US$10.5b.<\/p>\n

Google said it now counts over 325 million paid subscriptions across consumer services, including Google One and YouTube Premium.<\/p>\n

The cloud division, which competes with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, has become a key growth engine for Alphabet.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s Gemini AI continued to grow quickly, ending the year with 750 million monthly users.<\/p>\n

Despite the robust growth, Alphabet\u2019s experimental \u201cOther Bets\u201d division, which includes autonomous vehicle unit Waymo, posted a loss of US$3.6b on revenues of just US$370 million.<\/p>\n

Google\u2019s shares gained slightly more than 2% in after-market trades.<\/p>\n

-Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The company expects capital expenditures between US$175b and US$185b in 2026, double its 2025 spending, to meet customer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[152508,836,152506,365,1796,9556,363,364,806,8613,11783,138,6162,371,5770,5904,367,152505,9557,3234,111,139,69,6185,78775,145240,7493,312,1870,8262,21938,145,1529,2726,152507],"class_list":["post-268345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-152508","tag-836","tag-152506","tag-ai","tag-alphabet","tag-artificial","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-as","tag-billion","tag-brought","tag-business","tag-cloud","tag-computing","tag-core","tag-final","tag-google","tag-googleparent","tag-intelligence","tag-months","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-parent","tag-powered","tag-ramped","tag-revenue","tag-says","tag-search","tag-spending","tag-surges","tag-technology","tag-three","tag-tops","tag-us1138"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}