Alphabet Will Spend $75 Billion on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2025, but It Spent $69 Billion on Something Else Entirely in 2024 That Makes It Worth Buying and Holding Forever

It could spend even more on this investor-friendly category in 2025 as its AI investments start paying off.Newly appointed CFO Anat Ashkenazi told analysts to expect a small step-up in Alphabet's (GOOG -0.54%) (GOOGL -0.49%) capital investments in 2025 during the tech giant's third-quarter earnings call. "Likely not the same percent step-up that we saw between '23 and '24, but an additional increase," she said in late October.Alphabet ended up spending roughly $52.5 billion in 2024, up 62.5% from the $32.3 ...