Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

Google posted record revenue of one hundred nineteen point eight billion dollars in the second quarter, but the search giant is spending so heavily on artificial intelligence infrastructure that it reported negative cash flow for the first time. Per Ars Technica, the company's operating cash flow was thirty-nine point one billion dollars—up forty percent from a year ago—but capital expenditures on AI systems exceeded that. Google's search business brought in sixty-three point three billion dollars, while its cloud division, offering AI services to customers, grew twenty-three point eight percent to twenty-four point eight billion dollars. The spending surge underscores how aggressively Google is expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities.

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