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Alphabet launched a ten-part U.S.-dollar investment-grade bond offering and sought to raise as much as $25 billion. The transaction added a large block of corporate-bond supply to the market, with longer-dated U.S. Treasury yields reaching intraday highs after the offering was announced.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 covering imported polysilicon and related products. The order established minimum import prices of $21 per kilogram for polysilicon and $100 per kilogram for polysilicon ingots and wafers.
Sharon AI Holdings reported $1.9 billion of cash and cash equivalents as of June 30, 2026. The company said its near-term build-out was funded following an oversubscribed $1.6 billion private placement, a $350 million convertible-notes offering and accelerated receipt of $74 million from divesting Texas Critical Data Centers.
Stripe was reported to be in exclusive negotiations to acquire OpenRouter, an AI startup. The proposed consideration consists of cash and stock.
Nscale was identified as a London-headquartered AI-infrastructure and cloud-services startup. It reportedly aims to list in the United States in September, but the supplied sources do not identify an exchange, ticker, offering size or filed registration statement.
AMD announced that it will acquire Taalas. The stated objective is to develop future model-specific AI inference chips rather than broadly described, general-purpose accelerators.
Samsung introduced zHBM at the Future of Memory and Storage Summit. The product was presented as a new form of high-bandwidth memory using three-dimensional packaging.
NVIDIA has reportedly tested at least three variants of its next-generation Rubin Ultra graphics processing unit. Some test versions use less high-bandwidth memory than the configuration the company originally announced.
TSMC’s 3-nanometer process capacity is expected to increase to 180,000 wafer starts per month in early fourth quarter 2026. This figure refers to monthly wafer input at the fabrication stage, not finished chip output.
SpaceX announced on Aug. 5 that it was working with NVIDIA to develop and design Starmind AI1 satellite-computing payloads. NVIDIA also confirmed the collaboration through social media, according to the report.
NRG was reported to be nearing a 1.2-gigawatt power agreement with a hyperscale customer. The cited material describes the transaction as near completion, not as a signed or operational supply contract.
BloombergNEF estimated that the Texas pause puts 20% of the U.S. data-center development pipeline at risk of delay. The percentage concerns projects in the pipeline, not 20% of existing operational U.S. data-center capacity.
Duke Energy plans to issue $10 billion of equity as it pursues generation and infrastructure spending. The source frames the equity program as part of the utility’s effort to capture a gas-generation growth opportunity.
SpaceX plans to construct dedicated power infrastructure for Terafab, the large semiconductor manufacturing facility being developed with Tesla in Grimes County, Texas. Riley Trettel, who oversees SpaceX energy and data-center development, said the project would be self-sufficient.
Germany’s Federal Network Agency published a draft reform of the country’s grid-financing system. The proposal would require wind and solar generators to pay grid charges for the first time.
Sharon AI disclosed that secured AI Factory capacity increased by 80 megawatts to 212 megawatts. The company also reported a six-year strategic compute collaboration with NVIDIA valued at $4.9 billion and covering up to 40,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs.
Mirendil selected Google Cloud’s AI Hypercomputer infrastructure for model pre-training and post-training. The environment combines Google tensor processing units—AI accelerators known as TPUs—with NVIDIA’s full-stack accelerated-computing platform.
Amazon Web Services announced runtime instances for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. The service provides persistent, managed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud infrastructure for production AI agents.
Google Cloud is collaborating with MLCommons on MedPerf, an open-source platform launched in 2023 to standardize medical-AI evaluation. MedPerf uses Google Cloud Confidential Space to create a secure environment for testing proprietary models against real-world patient data.
OpenAI said it would switch ChatGPT’s default model for all users to GPT-5.6 Luna during the week. Compared with the previous default, GPT-5.5 Instant, Luna reportedly produced responses containing at least one factual error 62% less often.
Disney began beta testing AI-powered search and content-discovery functions on ESPN and Disney+. The tests are limited rather than a full release across all users.
The Apache Software Foundation announced Apache Fluss as a new top-level project. Fluss provides lakehouse-native streaming storage for real-time analytics and artificial-intelligence workloads.
