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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 has significantly increased its capital expenditure projections to facilitate the development of more advanced frontier AI models and infrastructure. This surge in spending highlights the accelerating arms race among tech giants to reach Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and more capable downstream systems. The scale of investment underscores the rapid advancement of compute capabilities, which directly impacts the potential for catastrophic risks if safety measures do not scale proportionally with power. While the report focuses on financial metrics, it reflects the global trajectory toward increasingly powerful AI systems that necessitate robust governance frameworks to mitigate frontier risks.

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