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Meta Platforms Inc.Meta Platforms surged approximately 6.6% in Monday's regular-session trading as confidence improved across major AI-spending companies. Amazon's stronger-than-expected cloud growth and $3 trillion valuation milestone encouraged investors to reconsider whether extensive infrastructure investment can produce sufficiently rapid revenue growth. Meta expects 2026 capital spending between $130 billion and $145 billion, compared with its previous range of $125 billion to $145 billion, and had initially forecast between $115 billion and $135 billion at the beginning of the year. The midpoint of the current range is $137.5 billion, an increase of $7.5 billion from the initial $125 billion midpoint. Monday's rally suggests investors placed greater weight on the possibility that AI infrastructure can strengthen advertising products and services than on the immediate cash-flow cost, though Amazon's cloud results do not establish that Meta will produce equivalent returns because the companies monetize infrastructure through different business models.
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