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On October 22, 2026, Meta released its third-quarter financial report. According to Zhi Dongxi reporting, the company's revenue was 64.601 billion USD, up 26% year over year, and net profit was 9.860 billion USD, up 264% year over year, but after including 9.89 billion USD in costs related to adolescent mental health litigation, operating profit fell 37% year over year; as of September 30, global employees totaled 66,775, down 15% year over year, about 12,000 fewer. On the earnings call, Meta set its personal AI agent Muse as the future core; Zuckerberg said Muse was downloaded and set up more than 10 million times in the United States and Canada within one month of launch, with a quarter of users using it daily; because computing costs have prevented a global launch, it plans to improve computing cost-effectiveness by 10 times next year, and plans expenditures of 135 billion to 145 billion USD in 2026. There is currently no further subsequent development confirmed by factual evidence.
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AI infrastructure under pressure: neocloud stocks plunge, credit risk rises, Solidigm withdraws IPODevelopments
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Oct 24
CNBC Technology
AI infrastructure under pressure: neocloud stocks plunge, credit risk rises, Solidigm withdraws IPO
AI infrastructure-related trades have experienced a turbulent week. Neocloud companies CoreWeave, Nebius and IREN all fell more than 30% this month. CoreWeave's CDS spread widened to more than 11%, and yields on its 2031 and 2032 unsecured bonds exceeded 15%. SK Hynix withdrew the U.S. IPO of its subsidiary Solidigm, citing market volatility. Meta's third-quarter free cash flow was negative by more than $2 billion, and it raised the lower bound of its full-year capital expenditure from $130 billion to $135 billion. Gartner expects that by 2030, 80% of neocloud companies will cease operations or be acquired, while Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said demand for neoclouds far exceeds capital supply.
Oct 23
TMTPost · AGI
Meta Q3 earnings: advertising props up 97% of revenue, Muse still burning money
Meta Q3 revenue was $64.6 billion, up 26% year-over-year, of which advertising contributed $63.06 billion, accounting for 97.6% of total revenue. The personal agent Muse, launched on September 8, surpassed 10 million downloads within 40 days of launch, but high capital expenditure turned free cash flow negative at $2.12 billion, and the full-year Capex guidance floor was raised from $130 billion to $135 billion. Muse currently mainly relies on subscription fees, with shopping being the most frequent use case; more than 25% of users have used the shopping feature, with average spend per transaction exceeding $200.
TMTPost · AGI
Edge AI Daily Morning Brief: Meta Spending Surges, OpenAI Valuation Cut, and NVIDIA AI Factories
Meta's third-quarter revenue was $64.6 billion, up 26% year over year, but quarterly capital expenditure of $34.91 billion exceeded operating cash flow, free cash flow was -$2.12 billion, and the stock fell nearly 7% after the earnings report while the Nasdaq index fell 2.8%. OpenAI is raising up to $30 billion at a pre-money valuation of $1.25 trillion, a reduction of more than 10% from its previous asking price of about $1.4 trillion. At GTC in Berlin, NVIDIA unveiled the modular AI factory reference design DSX POD, compressing on-site deployment time from about 6 months to as fast as 14 days.
Wallstreetcn
Goldman Sachs: The AI Capex Retreat Is Equivalent to an Alternative Form of Quantitative Easing for the Bond Market
In a morning note, Goldman Sachs' Rich Privorotsky argued that the scale of bond issuance by hyperscale cloud computing companies is now comparable to that of US Treasuries, and that a contraction in AI capital expenditure would reduce bond supply pressure, with an effect akin to quantitative easing. Earnings reports from several tech giants have raised doubts about the sustainability of AI capital expenditure; yields on 2-year to 10-year US Treasuries fell by more than 15 basis points in a single day, the 10-year yield dropped below 5%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell more than 7%. Tesla cut its full-year capital expenditure guidance from more than $25 billion to about $20 billion, Meta raised the lower bound of its full-year capital expenditure guidance to $135 billion, and DeepSeek's open-source reasoning model DeepInfer claims it can substantially improve inference efficiency on the basis of existing computing power.
The Verge AI
Meta Earnings Call: Zuckerberg Bets on Muse Agent Network, Over 10 Million Downloads in October
At its earnings call, Meta positioned its personal AI agent Muse as the future core, with Zuckerberg envisioning billions of users' Muses communicating and transacting with one another to form a large-scale Muse network. In its first month, Muse was downloaded and set up more than 10 million times in the United States and Canada, with a quarter of users using it daily, a quarter of users shopping on the platform, and an average spend per transaction of over $200. Zuckerberg said that due to compute costs it has not yet launched globally, and that the company plans to improve compute cost-effectiveness by 10 times next year; Meta plans to spend $135 billion to $145 billion in 2026.
Oct 22
CNBC Technology
Meta stock falls about 6%, AI spending turns free cash flow negative
Meta's stock fell about 6% on Thursday, with third-quarter free cash flow at negative $2.12 billion, and it raised the lower bound of its full-year capital expenditure range from $130 billion to $135 billion, making the range $135 billion to $145 billion. The company's third-quarter revenue was $64.6 billion, up 26% year-over-year, above analysts' expectations of $63.37 billion; it also announced the establishment of non-voting Class C common stock to maintain its founder-led structure and finance growth. Its five-year credit default swap spread hit a record high that day.
Cailian Press
Meta's future spending commitments rise to about $825 billion, with AI compute investment continuing to increase
In its quarterly filing, Meta disclosed total future spending commitments of about $825 billion, including $355.7 billion in leases for data centers and energy facilities and $454.5 billion in non-cancelable purchase commitments, nearly doubling within half a year from $182.9 billion and $237.7 billion at the end of March this year. In the third quarter, Meta's capital expenditures of $34.91 billion exceeded operating cash flow of $32.79 billion, and free cash flow for the quarter was negative $2.12 billion, compared with positive $10.63 billion in the same period last year. The company also raised its full-year capital expenditure forecast and announced the creation of non-voting Class C common stock that can be used for capital raising.
East Money
The three major US stock indices fell collectively, AI hardware sector broadly declined, international oil prices rose
On October 22, the three major US stock indices fell collectively: the Dow dropped 0.33%, the Nasdaq fell 1.45%, and the S&P 500 fell 0.82%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plunged 4%, and the AI hardware sector broadly declined. International oil prices rose, with WTI crude oil futures up nearly 3% at $99.73 per barrel. Tesla's Q3 revenue was $28.05 billion, down 0.2% year-over-year, and operating profit was $718 million, down 56% year-over-year.
Fortune Tech
Meta CFO Susan Li Targets Enterprise Market: AI Models and Agents to Become New Revenue Source
Meta CFO Susan Li said on the third-quarter earnings call that Meta plans to enter the enterprise market with its AI models, agents and business tools, and believes traditional enterprise software companies have not yet locked up this market. On September 28, Meta announced it would launch the Meta Enterprise Platform and hired former MongoDB CEO Chirantan “CJ” Desai to lead its buildout, aiming to generate new recurring revenue beyond advertising through subscriptions, usage-based API billing and messaging services. The plan will develop “over multiple years,” and Meta will decide the scale of investment based on customer needs and product-market fit.
Fortune Tech
Tesla and SpaceX in talks over a $3.5 trillion merger
Independent directors of Tesla and SpaceX have formed a special committee to discuss a possible merger of the two companies, and Musk said the two sides have not reached any agreement on the terms of a deal. The combined entity would have a market value of about $3.5 trillion, with SpaceX at about $2 trillion and Tesla at nearly $1.5 trillion, and Musk would hold about one-third. Musk mentioned that the two sides could collaborate on AI software, chip design, robotics, connectivity technology, and the jointly built Terafab chip factory; SpaceX this week reported its first operating profit since going public, with third-quarter revenue up 161% to $14.58 billion, and AI business revenue nearly tripling from the second-quarter level to $7.56 billion, surpassing Starlink's $5.25 billion for the first time.
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After cumulative losses of about $96.3 billion, Meta Reality Labs shifts its focus to AI glasses and personal superintelligence
Meta's financial report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 shows that the Reality Labs division had revenue of $443 million and an operating loss of $4.129 billion, with the loss narrower than market expectations, bringing cumulative losses since 2020 to about $96.3 billion. Meta CFO Susan Li said the narrowing loss mainly came from revenue growth in AI glasses, partially offsetting the decline in Quest headset sales. Zuckerberg said on the earnings call that the pace of VR hardware iteration will slow, personal superintelligence has become the focus of Reality Labs' business, MUSE will be integrated into Meta smart glasses starting next month, and paid subscriptions are expected to increase.
East Money
A-share three major indices closed lower, medical aesthetics and robotics sectors rose against the trend
The three major A-share indices continued their slump today, with the Shanghai Composite Index falling 1.48% to close at 3,658.03 points, the Shenzhen Component Index down 2.96%, and the ChiNext Index down 4.37%. Trading volume across the Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Beijing markets reached 1.54 trillion yuan, an increase of 100 billion yuan from yesterday. Industry sectors broadly declined, with only medical aesthetics, robotics, and construction machinery rising against the trend. The humanoid robot concept was active against the market, with Daye Co., Ltd. hitting its fifth consecutive limit-up; the electric motor industry saw a net inflow of 1.094 billion yuan, while communications equipment saw a net outflow of 8.596 billion yuan.
36Kr · AI
Meta's free cash flow turned negative at $2.12 billion in Q3 2026, capital expenditure guidance raised to $135–145 billion
Meta reported Q3 2026 revenue of $64.601 billion, up 26% year-over-year, but capital expenditure rose to $33.942 billion and free cash flow fell to negative $2.12 billion, compared with positive $10.625 billion in the same period last year. The company raised the lower bound of its full-year 2026 capital expenditure guidance by $5 billion to $135–145 billion, and Chief Financial Officer Susan Li said investment will continue to increase in 2027. The earnings report also disclosed a plan to establish non-voting Class C common stock for purposes such as employee equity incentives and potential acquisitions.
Zhidongxi
Meta Q3 2026 Earnings: Headcount Down About 12,000 Year-over-Year, Muse Agent Users Surpass 10 Million
Meta announced its Q3 2026 earnings: revenue of $64.601 billion, up 26% year-over-year, and net profit of $9.860 billion, up 264% year-over-year, but after including $9.89 billion in costs related to teen mental health litigation, operating profit fell 37% year-over-year. As of September 30, 2026, it had 66,775 employees worldwide, down 15% year-over-year, or about 12,000 people. About a month and a half after the personal agent Muse launched, more than 10 million people in the United States and Canada have set it up, with a daily active usage rate of about 25%; Zuckerberg said its current operating costs are relatively high and plans to improve cost efficiency by more than 10 times over the next year.
East Money
Shanghai Composite falls 0.89%, ChiNext falls 2.77%, robotics supply chain bucks the trend
The three major A-share indices swung lower. As of the midday close, the Shanghai Composite fell 0.89% to 3,679.86 points, and the ChiNext Index fell 2.77% to 2,620.04 points. Across the market, 3,985 stocks declined and 32 hit the daily limit-up, with half-day turnover in the two markets at 919.3 billion yuan. Robotics supply chain sectors such as motors, robot actuators, and reducers bucked the trend and strengthened, while film and cinema lines, CPO concept, and CRO led the declines.
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Meta Reality Labs posted a Q3 loss of $4.129 billion, with profitability expected to begin in 2027
Meta's Reality Labs division reported Q3 revenue of $443 million and a loss of $4.129 billion for fiscal year 2026, a narrower loss than the $4.54 billion expected by the market. Meta expects the division to lose $18 billion to $19 billion this year, narrowing to about $15 billion in 2027, and is expected to gradually move toward profitability starting next year.
Yicai
Tech stocks rally, Dow jumps over 300 points; Musk ignites AI trade, Meta earnings lift shares over 3% after hours
U.S. stocks rose across the board on Wednesday, with the Dow gaining 360.21 points to close at 52,856.09, as improved results from SpaceX and Super Micro Computer boosted demand for AI-related stocks. Meta reported third-quarter revenue of $64.6 billion and earnings per share of $3.83, both beating expectations, and forecast full-year capital expenditures of $135 billion to $145 billion; its shares rose more than 3% after hours. Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, beating expectations, and free cash flow turned positive at $1.53 billion, sending its shares up 3.41%.
Fortune Tech
Zuckerberg Weighs Leaving California Over Wealth Tax, Meta Responds With New Class C Shares
Meta announced during its third-quarter earnings release that it will distribute non-voting Class C shares to all shareholders, allowing Zuckerberg to sell stock to pay California's proposed wealth tax and continue funding the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative without giving up his Class B super-voting shares. Zuckerberg currently holds about 60.6% of voting power and about 13.4% of equity; under the new structure, he can immediately sell 20% of those shares, while the remaining 80% must be sold or converted in tandem with an equal number of voting shares. California's Prop 40 wealth tax will go to a vote on November 3, and if passed, it could result in a tax bill of billions of dollars for him.
Phoenix Technology
Meta's Q3 net profit up 264% year-over-year, establishes Class C shares to fund AI development
Meta released its 2026 third-quarter earnings report, with total revenue of $64.601 billion, up 26% year-over-year, and net profit of $9.860 billion, up 264% year-over-year. Meta also announced the establishment of non-voting Class C shares to raise the funds needed to develop and deliver AI models, effective January 19, 2027; the move does not affect Zuckerberg's voting control. The earnings report also shows that third-quarter capital expenditures were $34.91 billion, and full-year 2026 capital expenditures are expected to be between $135 billion and $145 billion.
Sina Tech
Meta's Q3 revenue of $64 billion beats expectations; announces 2-for-1 stock split and raises 2026 capital expenditure floor
Meta released its third-quarter earnings report, with revenue of $64 billion, above analysts' expectations of $63.3 billion. GAAP earnings per share were $3.83, or $7.40 excluding legal costs related to a teen mental health settlement. The company announced plans to create a new class of non-voting Class C stock to be distributed as a stock dividend, equivalent to a 2-for-1 stock split, while raising the lower end of its 2026 capital expenditure forecast from $130 billion to $135 billion, for a range of $135 billion to $145 billion.
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