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Meta is going back to the bond market for as much as $25 billion. The Meta $25 billion bond sale, reported Tuesday by CNBC and first flagged by Bloomberg, would help pay for the data centers, chips, and AI models behind chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s push toward personal superintelligence. About two-thirds of the debt is expected to be denominated in U.S. dollars and the rest in euros, according to people familiar with the plans who spoke to both outlets on condition of anonymity because the details are private. Final pricing was expected Tuesday afternoon. Meta declined to comment. ...

Meta reported record third-quarter revenue of $64.6 billion, up 26% year over year, while lifting the floor of its 2026 AI capital-spending plan to $135 billion as its Muse AI agent crossed 10 million users within weeks of launch. Full story in slides above. Sources: AI Parabellum, Sharesify, Particle News, Seoul Economic Daily, BullBuzz, October 21–22, 2026.

Mark Zuckerberg and Apple just became collaborators. Let that sink in for a second. On Thursday, Oct. 15, Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter open-weight AI model, and announced that Apple had worked with it for months to make the model run locally on Mac Studio computers. It’s the first public technical partnership between the two companies in years, and it hands developers a way to run frontier-scale AI on hardware sitting on their desks instead of in someone else’s data center. ...

The AI boom powered tech billionaires to a record $845 billion in gains through September 2026, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — while billionaires outside tech lost a combined $62 billion. Full story in slides above — Sources: Bloomberg via Economic Times, The WealthAdvisor, The Edge Singapore, October 5, 2026.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump doesn’t want Washington to regulate artificial intelligence. He wants the companies building it to regulate themselves, and on Tuesday, he got the heads of six of the biggest ones to sign their names to the idea. The president gathered the CEOs of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and X at the White House and signed what he called a “morally binding” one-page Trump AI accord. It’s not a law. It’s not an executive order. It’s a public promise that the companies will build internal safety controls, open themselves to outside auditors, and let independent board committees review what those auditors find. ...

President Trump signed a “morally binding” AI self-regulation agreement with top tech executives at a White House lunch on September 29, 2026, per Reuters. The voluntary pact commits companies to internal risk controls and external audits — while Trump ruled out new federal AI regulations and announced AI will be renamed “super intelligence” in government documents. Full story in slides above — sources: Reuters, New York Post, Associated Press via New Indian Express, September 29, 2026. ...

The biggest names in AI are walking into the White House today. President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will sit down Tuesday with the heads of Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia and Palantir, plus OpenAI’s president, for a luncheon meant to get Washington and Silicon Valley talking the same language about AI safety. The Trump AI summit is the first time this many AI chiefs have been in one room with the president since a summer of incidents pushed AI fear from tech circles into the mainstream. And the timing is awkward: two days ago, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei was having a private dinner with Trump while publicly calling for the industry to slow down. On Monday, he ducked reporters on Capitol Hill who asked about it. ...