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What stands out

Bloomberg’s clips highlight two conflicting corporate narratives: Meta saying its big artificial-intelligence bet is “paying off” and raising capital spending, while Tesla is trimming planned capital expenditures after investment lagged expectations. The Meta message matters because management tied recent product progress, including an AI agent called Muse, directly to a willingness to double down on spending and even create a new nonvoting share class that could be used for acquisitions. Tesla’s cutback is notable because it frames the company’s pivot to AI and robotics as more gradual and capital-constrained than Musk had suggested.