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Meta Signals More AI Spending After Q3 Results
The company forecasts 2026 capital expenditures of $135 billion to $145 billion and says AI is boosting ad revenue.
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Meta said its AI investments are generating additional advertising revenue through stronger engagement, improved recommendations and more efficient ad monetization, while describing the launches of Muse and Muse Wonder as milestones in its AI work. These are company-reported assessments; the earnings release does not provide independent measurements of their impact. [1]
Meta forecast 2026 capital expenditures, including finance-lease principal payments, of $135 billion to $145 billion and said it expects to keep investing aggressively in AI beyond 2026. The release did not substantiate the supplied brief’s claim that Muse reached 10 million accounts in the U.S. and Canada in roughly six weeks, so that adoption figure is not included here. [1]
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The sole source is Meta’s own earnings release, so claims about advertising benefits are attributed to the company.
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