Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI spending, marking its first cash burn since going public decades ago (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times)

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Google posted its first public-era quarterly cash burn as AI capex surged, signaling the scale of hyperscaler infrastructure spending.

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<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/b02f972c-c764-4006-9377-42563d9d5530"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260722/i58.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260722/p58#a260722p58" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Ryan McMorrow / <a href="https://www.ft.com/">Financial Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/b02f972c-c764-4006-9377-42563d9d5530">Google reports Q2 free cash flow at negative $5.9B amid increased AI spending, marking its first cash burn since going public decades ago</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Search giant says it will commit up to $205bn to AI investments in 2026&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Google burned through cash in the second quarter for the first time since &hellip; </p>

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