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What stands out

Meta's announcement that it will sell excess computing power as a cloud play sent its stock up and forced a recalibration about how money will be made from Artificial intelligence (AI). CNBC's segment lays out three narrative violations: owning frontier AI is not the only path to profit; new labor data from Ramp and Revelio Labs covering 21,000 US companies shows heavy AI spenders are not shrinking headcount; and open-source models are already producing real revenue, per CEOs from Together AI and Hugging Face. Each break in the story remaps where durable margins may live.