Meta Platforms (META.O) expects 2026 capital expenditure of $135–$145 billion; raised the range's lower bound by $5 billion.

Anthropic has secured an additional $77 billion in financing from Google, Amazon and Broadcom. Amazon’s funding is tied to compute-capacity milestones; Google’s $20 billion commitment is partly contingent on Anthropic meeting specified revenue targets. The deals follow earlier multi-billion-dollar investments by hyperscale cloud providers that have supplied capital and compute capacity while competing with the startup. Google and Amazon have together invested tens of billions of dollars to date and are now Anthropic’s largest shareholders.

Singapore September seasonally adjusted industrial production MoM -3.9% (consensus +0.6%; prior -0.5%).