SHANGHAI, Aug 24 : The Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba slumped on Monday after the Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing company launched a $10.2 billion share placement, as investors worried about payback from its massive AI spending.Alibaba said on Sunday its HK$80 billion ($10.21 billion) share placeme

The Chinese tech giant announced it will issue HK$80 billion in new shares to fully fund its global AI push.

The Chinese tech giant is expanding beyond retail into chips, cloud and large language models as surging spending weighs on quarterly profits.