The largest AI spenders: capital spending, AI-attributed job cuts and profit

Live run · generated 2026-10-29 10:51 UTC

Read this first. These figures sit side by side; nothing here claims that spending caused any job cut, or the reverse. Companies do not report AI investment separately, so "capital expenditure" is total purchases of property and equipment as reported in each annual report (SEC XBRL data). It is not a measure of AI investment, and nothing here says the spending caused the cuts. Job-cut entries are this agent's editor-approved records, quoted from each company's own filings; a blank means none was found in the filings searched, not that none happened.

#	Company	Capital expenditure	Net income	AI-attributed job cuts (employer's words)
1	AMAZON COM INC AMZN	FY to 2025-12-31 $131.8B FY to 2024-12-31 $83.0B FY to 2023-12-31 $52.7B	FY to 2025-12-31 $77.7B FY to 2024-12-31 $59.2B FY to 2023-12-31 $30.4B	No editor-approved AI-attributed job-cut record. Filings read: 1.
2	MICROSOFT CORP MSFT	FY to 2026-06-30 $115.9B FY to 2025-06-30 $64.6B FY to 2024-06-30 $44.5B	FY to 2026-06-30 $133.7B FY to 2025-06-30 $101.8B FY to 2024-06-30 $88.1B	No editor-approved AI-attributed job-cut record. Filings read: 0.
3	Alphabet Inc. GOOGL	FY to 2025-12-31 $91.4B FY to 2024-12-31 $52.5B FY to 2023-12-31 $32.3B	FY to 2025-12-31 $132.2B FY to 2024-12-31 $100.1B FY to 2023-12-31 $73.8B	No editor-approved AI-attributed job-cut record. Filings read: 0.
4	Meta Platforms, Inc. META	FY to 2025-12-31 $69.7B FY to 2024-12-31 $37.3B FY to 2023-12-31 $27.0B	FY to 2025-12-31 $60.5B FY to 2024-12-31 $62.4B FY to 2023-12-31 $39.1B	No editor-approved AI-attributed job-cut record. Filings read: 2.
5	ORACLE CORP ORCL	FY to 2026-05-31 $55.7B FY to 2025-05-31 $21.2B FY to 2024-05-31 $6.9B	FY to 2026-05-31 $17.1B FY to 2025-05-31 $12.4B FY to 2024-05-31 $10.5B	No editor-approved AI-attributed job-cut record. Filings read: 2.
6	Apple Inc. AAPL	FY to 2025-09-27 $12.7B FY to 2024-09-28 $9.4B FY to 2023-09-30 $11.0B	FY to 2025-09-27 $112.0B FY to 2024-09-28 $93.7B FY to 2023-09-30 $97.0B	No editor-approved AI-attributed job-cut record. Filings read: 0.
7	CoreWeave, Inc. CRWV	FY to 2025-12-31 $10.3B FY to 2024-12-31 $8.7B FY to 2023-12-31 $2.9B	FY to 2025-12-31 −$1.2B FY to 2024-12-31 −$0.9B FY to 2023-12-31 −$0.6B	No editor-approved AI-attributed job-cut record. Filings read: 0.
8	Tesla, Inc. TSLA	FY to 2025-12-31 $8.5B FY to 2024-12-31 $11.3B FY to 2023-12-31 $8.9B	FY to 2025-12-31 $3.8B FY to 2024-12-31 $7.1B FY to 2023-12-31 $15.0B	No editor-approved AI-attributed job-cut record. Filings read: 13.
9	NVIDIA CORP NVDA	FY to 2026-01-25 $6.0B FY to 2025-01-26 $3.2B FY to 2024-01-28 $1.1B	FY to 2026-01-25 $120.1B FY to 2025-01-26 $72.9B FY to 2024-01-28 $29.8B	No editor-approved AI-attributed job-cut record. Filings read: 0.
10	INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP IBM	FY to 2025-12-31 $1.1B FY to 2024-12-31 $1.0B FY to 2023-12-31 $1.2B	FY to 2025-12-31 $10.6B FY to 2024-12-31 $6.0B FY to 2023-12-31 $7.5B	No editor-approved AI-attributed job-cut record. Filings read: 2.

Ranked by latest fiscal-year capital expenditure among: MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, META, ORCL, AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, IBM, CRM, AVGO, CRWV. Source: SEC company facts API (data.sec.gov); fiscal years end on different dates for different companies.