Meta said recent capital raises by peers such as Alphabet and SpaceX, plus expected fundraising by Anthropic and OpenAI, have created an 'increasingly challenging' fundraising environment, raising doubts over whether enough capital exists for AI spending. Meta's revenue rose 26% to $64.6 billion, though free cash flow was negative $2.1 billion, and it raised the low end of its 2026 capex forecast to $135 billion to $145 billion. Broadcom's Hock Tan and BlackRock's Larry Fink voiced similar concerns as AI-linked stocks led a Nasdaq selloff of 2.6%, with Nvidia down 4.4% and CoreWeave down 10.1%. Yardeni Research said money moved to other parts of the market, as the equal-weighted S&P 500 rose 0.7% while the cap-weighted version fell 1.2%, and Treasury yields dropped. Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle are projected to spend almost $780 billion in 2026 and more than $1 trillion a year from 2027 through 2030.
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