AI Crispy Talks
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This is the clearest sign yet that the AI capex race has outgrown even Meta's ad cash flow — when a company with tens of billions in annual profit turns to fresh equity, datacenter bills have clearly hit another order of magnitude. The non-voting structure is classic Zuckerberg: raise a massive war chest for compute and acquisitions while ceding zero governance. Investors get AI upside exposure with no say, which will be a real-time test of how much the market actually buys the superintelligence pitch. If it prices well, expect rivals to copy the template — this could become the standard financing instrument of the compute race. The risk is asymmetric: if AI returns lag, shareholders eat the bill with no voice at the table.
Meta to create a new class of shares to fund AI push Meta says it's issuing a new class of shares to fund its AI initiatives. As part of its third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the company says the non-voting stock will also go toward potential acquisitions and employee compensation, with trading beginning in 2027. "The scale of i…

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