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Alphabet CFO: Third-party capacity will bridge near-term supply constraints
"....given the supply constraint environment, we plan to expand the use of third-party capacity in Q3 as a bridging strategy while we build out more internal capacity. This strategy allows us to keep growing our customer base and capture greater overall value
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Alphabet CEO acknowledges coding remains a relative area of weakness
"There are areas where we've acknowledged we need to improve. Coding and agentic coding is an example of that. And I think the teams are very, very focused on it"
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$GOOGL Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai: "For the next generation of frontier, you're going to need much larger base models. We are now training Gemini 4, and we are being very ambitious with it. I am very excited by the progress I'm seeing internally on Gemini 4."
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$GOOGL Alphabet CFO Anat Ashkenazi: No further broad equity issuance is currently planned
“At this point, we're not planning to go back to the equity markets. With the exception of as you recall, part of our equity offering was the ATM or at the market offering that we will do to address the stock-based or the tax on SBC which we'll do for some period of time.”
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$GOOGL Alphabet CFO: Debt expanded from roughly $16B to $100B in 12 months
“We have expanded our debt portfolio quite significantly over the past 12 months. If you look at a year ago, we were at about $16 billion. And we went to about $100 billion across multiple currencies and geographies. So we're expanding that portfolio.”
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$GOOGL Alphabet CEO TPU allocation prioritizes frontier AGI development before external infrastructure demand, preserving internal access to scarce strategic compute.
“Look, our first priority is making sure we are allocating what we need to compete at the frontier in terms of AGI development, and so that is the foundation for everything we do. But given the extraordinary demand, to balance the external demand—even for most cloud customers—we are using both TPUs and GPUs, mainly for serving our models"
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Alphabet CFO: TPU revenue recognition began at a small level in Q2, ramps through 2026, and becomes predominantly a 2027 contribution.
“And then, once we start delivering the sales generally, we start recognizing revenue. This quarter was a small amount of the total agreement. We'll continue to ramp up throughout 2026. But then you'll see the vast majority of the revenue from that agreements come through in 2027."
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Alphabet CFO: TPU system revenue remains modest in 2026, with the vast majority of contracted sales expected in 2027. "...we started delivering TPU systems to customer data centers in the second quarter. We continue to expect to recognize a relatively small portion of the revenues from our existing TPU system sales agreements this year, ramping as we exit 2026. We anticipate the vast majority of the revenues from these agreements will be realized in 2027. And, given the supply constraint environment, we plan to expand the use of third-party capacity in Q3 as a bridging strategy while we build out more internal capacity. This strategy allows us to keep growing our customer base and capture greater overall value"
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Alphabet CEO: "All of this momentum is driving growth in our paid token usage. Nearly 500 cloud customers have each processed more than 1 trillion tokens in the last year, and usage is so much deeper than that. Over the last 12 months, more than 2,000 enterprises consumed over 100 billion token"
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Alphabet CFO: "CapEx was $44.9B in Q2 26, with the majority of the spend in technical infrastructure, to support our investments in AI. ~60% of our investment in technical infrastructure this quarter was in servers & 40% was in data centers & networking equipment"
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Alphabet Free Cash Flows turn negative:
CFO: "We had negative free cash flow of $5.9B in Q2 26, driven by our investments in CapEx. Free cash flow was $53.3B for the TTM. We ended the quarter with $242.5B in cash & marketable securities..."
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Alphabet CFO: TPUs generated revenues for the first time in Q2 26
"We also began to recognize revenues from TPU system sales, which we delivered to customer data centers for the first time in Q2. Cloud revenue growth accelerated meaningfully, even after excluding the impact of TPU system sales."
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Alphabet CFO: "Cloud revenue growth accelerated meaningfully, even after excluding the impact of TPU system sales." $GOOG $GOOGL
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BREAKING: GOOGLE CLOUD GENERATES REVENUE PRIMARILY FROM THE SALE OF TPU SYSTEMS! $GOOG Google Cloud has shifted from being a cloud to a hardware vendor, and this quarter was the first time they said "primarily" with meaningful language change. Is this Google bowing out of the race as they shift to becoming an NVIDIA competitor versus a hyperscaler? More on the call soon 🤞
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Alphabet CFO: "...we expect that free cash flow will remain under pressure, driven by our investments in technical infrastructure, which enable us to capitalize on the AI opportunity and continue to drive attractive returns" $GOOG $GOOGL
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Alphabet Free Cash Flows turn negative: CFO: "We had negative free cash flow of $5.9B in Q2 26, driven by our investments in CapEx. Free cash flow was $53.3B for the TTM. We ended the quarter with $242.5B in cash & marketable securities..." $GOOG $GOOGL
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Alphabet CFO raises capex guidance again!
"Moving to investments, we are updating our full-year 2026 CapEx guidance range to $195 to $205 billion, up from our previous estimate of $180 to $190 billion. The increase in the range is primarily due to an acceleration in the delivery of capacity to meet growing demand. As we previously shared, we continue to expect our CapEx to increase significantly in 2027 and will provide more details at a later date."
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Alphabet CFO raises annual capex guide: “We are updating our full year 2026 CapEx guidance range to $180 to $190B, up from our previous estimate of $175 to $185B, to now include investment related to the acquisition of Intersect, which closed in March.” $GOOG $GOOGL
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Alphabet CFO: TPU system revenue remains modest in 2026, with the vast majority of contracted sales expected in 2027.
"...we started delivering TPU systems to customer data centers in the second quarter. We continue to expect to recognize a relatively small portion of the revenues from our existing TPU system sales agreements this year, ramping as we exit 2026. We anticipate the vast majority of the revenues from these agreements will be realized in 2027. And, given the supply constraint environment, we plan to expand the use of third-party capacity in Q3 as a bridging strategy while we build out more internal capacity. This strategy allows us to keep growing our customer base and capture greater overall value"
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Alphabet CFO: TPUs generated revenues for the first time in Q2 26 "We also began to recognize revenues from TPU system sales, which we delivered to customer data centers for the first time in Q2. Cloud revenue growth accelerated meaningfully, even after excluding the impact of TPU system sales."
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IBM lowers FY26 revenue growth outlook
CEO: "...we faced revenue headwinds late in the second quarter..."
$IBM: +3% AH
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IBM’s preliminary Q2 26 results fall short of its expectations CEO: "...we did not anticipate the magnitude of the capex reprioritization. In addition, clients were distracted with rapidly-evolving, industry-wide cybersecurity concerns in the quarter" $IBM: -17% Pre-Market
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ServiceNow CFO: "Once again, we beat the high end of our guidance range across every topline and profitability metric."
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Kinder Morgan CEO: "...demand for natural gas infrastructure continues to grow...The company delivered Q2 26 net income attributable to KMI of $867 million, 21% higher than the second quarter of 2025...."
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Alphabet CEO: "Our momentum starts with Search...We saw 17% Y/Y revenue growth in Search & Other."
CBO: "Google Services revenues were $95B in Q2 26, up 15% Y/Y, primarily driven by Search."
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