AI Spending Accelerates While Office Real Estate Crumbles

In this jam-packed news and earnings episode, Simon and Dan dig into the hyperscaler AI spending arms race—and what it could mean for shareholders. They break down Alphabet’s blowout quarter (surging Cloud growth, stronger engagement from AI-powered search, and a push to “own the transaction layer” online), but also debate the market’s unease as buybacks take a back seat to massive capex plans.

They then unpack why S&P Global got punished despite only a slight miss, and discuss which parts of the business could be most exposed to AI-driven disruption (while also noting the durability of the ratings moat). Next, they touch on Allied Properties REIT after a brutal drop tied to equity issuance and weakening leasing trends.

The episode wraps with Amazon’s strong AWS momentum and accelerating infrastructure buildout, a candid look at Lightspeed’s worrying sequential slowdown and its growing merchant cash-advance/lending exposure, and Spotify’s margin and free-cash-flow surge—plus the competitive threat from YouTube Premium as pricing converges.

Tickers of Stocks Discussed: GOOG, AMZN, SPGI, AP-UN.TO, LSPD.TO, SPOT

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