
First Half of 2025: Big Tech's AI Spending Surpasses $1.5 Trillion
Global tech giants are locked in a high-stakes race to dominate the field of artificial intelligence (AI), spending vast sums of money to outpace each other. So far this year, U.S.-based tech giants have spent $1.55 trillion (USD) on AI—an amount greater than the U.S. government's total expenditure on education, job training, and social services combined, according to The Guardian.