Finance and AccountingThe AI Bill Comes Due: Why Investors Balked at Big Tech’s Spending Big Tech’s earnings week of 26–30 October 2026 became a reckoning over AI spending. Alphabet’s free cash flow went negative, Intel crashed and the Nasdaq 100 lost over $1 trillion in a day. We explain capex and free cash flow simply, and what it means for Nigerian businesses. MJMuhammad Jamilu Abdullahi31 Oct 2026 · 6 min read