Meta boosts equity offering to $98 billion to fund AI buildout
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Meta upsized its stock sale from an initial $95 billion target to nearly $98 billion, one of the largest equity offerings ever, to fund AI infrastructure and superintelligence work. Nvidia is investing $3 billion in Meta as part of the deepened AI partnership.
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