Asian shares retreated on Friday after Wall Street inched to more records as gains for Alphabet and artificial-intelligence stocks helped offset a steep tumble for EV-maker Tesla. Japan’s Nikkei 225 fell 0.

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Alphabet , faced with unprecedented threats from AI rivals, will be keen to assure investors this week that the company's own spending on the technology is helping it dig a deeper moat around its search and advertising businesses.

"The price to the AI show keeps climbing for hyperscalers": Fool chief investment officer Andy Cross noted Alphabet's capital expenditure is soaring ahead of buybacks. Buyback spend this quarter reached just 0.6 times capex – last year it came in at 1.18 times.

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