💡EARNINGS: 4 very different ways Big Tech is paying their AI BILL
Microsoft beat on both revenue and earnings, and is still funding AI from cash flow while paying shareholders $10.2B.
Alphabet missed earnings badly, burned $9B in free cash and bought back no stock.
Meta, which missed last week on a $9.9B legal charge, is raising $98B from investors.
Meanwhile SK Hynix, which sells them the memory, beat on revenue and operating profit and is handing $75B back to its shareholders.