Tech giants confront soaring AI costs as Microsoft, Uber and Meta reassess spending and returns

Tech giants confront soaring AI costs as Microsoft, Uber and Meta reassess spending and returns

The big promise of artificial intelligence to boost productivity is now facing one major issue for tech giants: very high cost. While companies like Microsoft, Uber and Meta are seeing strong productivity benefits from AI coding tools, at the same time, they are also struggling with rapidly increasing spending on tokens, GPUs, servers and AI…

Grocery e-commerce is soaring, but regional grocers remain in a tough spot

Grocery e-commerce is soaring, but regional grocers remain in a tough spot

Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Grocery e-commerce in 2025 hit a slew of monthly record-highs, cementing the shopping method as “no longer an alternative channel” but as a “dominant habit,” according to Brick Meets Click. Nearly every month in 2025 saw year-over-year…