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Meta has revised its capital expenditure outlook, lifting the projected full-year range to $US125 billion to $US145 billion...

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Meta Platforms has significantly increased its capital expenditure forecast to between $125 billion and $145 billion, signaling an aggressive expansion of AI infrastructure. This massive investment highlights the intensifying arms race to develop frontier AI capabilities, often at the expense of corporate cost-cutting elsewhere. While the spending surge underscores the rapid scaling of compute power necessary for next-generation models, it raises critical questions regarding the oversight of such powerful systems and the speed at which frontier capabilities are advancing relative to safety benchmarks. The report reflects a global trend of massive private investment in AI that challenges existing governance frameworks to keep pace with industry scaling.

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