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Squawk on the Street

Amazon's AI Spending Plans, A Bitcoin Strategy, & LIVE: Affirm CEO Talks Earnings 2/6/26

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

News, Investing, Business

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Amazon the latest big tech name to announce blockbuster AI spending plans: Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber began the hour breaking down the news - along with mixed results from the name and how to trade them. With the NASDAQ on pace for its worst week since November, are there software names worth taking a look at here? The team discussed Cramer's predictions when it comes to long-term winners and losers here, along with what comes next for the broader markets after this week's volatility... and Bitcoin. Plus: Affirm CEO Max Levchin joined the broadcast to breakdown new numbers from the company - and the team broke down other key movers of the early trade, from Stellantis to Reddit to Strategy. Squawk on the Street Disclaimer Squawk on the Street Disclaimer

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0:00.0

It's Jim Kramer here. You're listening to the opening bell of CBC Squawk on the Street.

0:04.7

Don't miss a minute of the action.

0:13.2

Good Friday morning. Welcome to Squawk in the Street. I'm Carl Kintanay with Jim Kramer, David

0:16.8

Faber, Post 9 of the New York Stock Exchange. Can we finally get a sustainable bounce in software after the IGV falls about 19% in just over a week? Some big names

0:26.6

are higher pre-market, but not Amazon, as it does guide to 200 billion in CAPEX. Bitcoin

0:32.6

bounces off 60K overnight. Our roadmap begins with Amazon, raising the stakes in the AI

0:37.3

arms race, boosting

0:38.7

KAPX, as we said, to $200 billion. Crypto is rebounding this morning. Bitcoin narrowly

0:44.2

avoiding falling below $60,000, but it is down 20% this week alone. And we got a lot of earnings

0:51.0

movers, including a firm. That's the buy now, pay later company, did beat estimates.

0:55.2

The company CEO, Max Lepton, will join us for a first on CNBC interview.

0:59.0

That's just a few moments from that.

1:01.6

Let's begin with Amazon, under pressure falling below 200 overnight after these mixed results,

1:07.4

revealing some blockbuster AI spending plans.

1:10.1

Here's Andy Jassy talking about it on the call.

1:14.1

We expect to invest about $200 billion in capital expenditures across Amazon, but predominantly

1:19.9

in AWS, because we have very high demand, customers really want AWS for core and AI workloads,

1:26.1

and we're monetizing capacity as fast as we can install it.

1:29.9

We have deep experience understanding demand signals in the AWS business and then turning that

1:34.5

capacity into strong return on invested capital. We're confident this will be the case here as well.

1:40.6

Jim got a handful of price target cuts, at least one downgrade. A lot of discussion about custom

1:45.0

chips last night, too. Well, the custom chips was good discussion because they didn't necessarily

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