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Seasonally adjusted U.S. nonfarm payrolls decreased by 23,000 in July, compared with a market expectation for an increase of about 80,000. Private payrolls rose by 30,000, government payrolls fell by 53,000, and manufacturing employment increased by 5,000.
Firmus described the transaction as a fully subscribed $2 billion strategic equity injection. The supplied source does not state whether the dollar amount is denominated in Australian or U.S. dollars, so the original “$2 billion” unit is preserved without conversion.
Switch, identified in the source as a data-center company, plans to make a confidential filing for an initial public offering. A confidential filing begins the regulatory review process without immediately making the registration statement public.
Alphabet filed for a ten-part notes offering with an aggregate size of up to $25 billion. A separate report described the securities as senior unsecured notes, meaning they are not backed by specified collateral.
President Donald Trump announced a group of critical-mineral and battery projects valued at $3 billion. The disclosed support spans conditional loans, Export-Import Bank loans, grants, and prior direct government equity investment, rather than a single closed financing.
AMD announced that it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas. The transaction was therefore at the signed-agreement stage in the supplied source, rather than merely a memorandum of understanding or acquisition discussion.
SK hynix plans to spend 19.1 trillion won on its M17 semiconductor manufacturing plant in Cheongju, South Korea. The figure refers to planned expenditure on a manufacturing facility, not to GPU purchases, server capacity, or data-center power.
Kioxia demonstrated its GP1 solid-state drive live at FMS 2026, with the system producing just over 10 million input/output operations per second. Input/output operations per second, or IOPS, measures the number of storage read or write operations completed each second.
Longsys (Jiangbolong, 江波龙) issued 6.6071 million shares to designated investors at 560 yuan per share. The completed private placement raised approximately 3.699 billion yuan gross, with reported net proceeds of 3.668 billion yuan.
Operational U.S. utility-scale battery storage capacity stood at 43.6 gigawatts at the end of 2025. Operators added another 8.3 gigawatts during the first six months of 2026, taking nameplate battery-storage capacity to nearly 52 gigawatts.
Oncor is evaluating the effect of Texas’s pause on new data-center interconnection approvals on a large-load pipeline approaching 300 gigawatts. The pipeline is a queue or prospective load total, not an amount of operating or committed data-center capacity.
China’s national electricity load reached 1.557 billion kilowatts, equivalent to 1,557 gigawatts. The National Energy Administration said this was the fourth new national-load record set during 2026.
Siemens announced investments totaling more than $200 million in two new U.S. manufacturing facilities. The facilities are located in Pendleton, Georgia, and Grand Prairie, Texas, and the company said the projects would create more than 1,500 jobs.
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek said she supports pauses on data-center development at the local-government level. Her support applies until recommendations from an advisory council are available for consideration.
AI cloud-infrastructure provider QumulusAI announced an agreement to supply compute powered by NVIDIA Blackwell graphics processing units to an agentic hedge fund. The source does not identify the hedge fund or specify the number and model of Blackwell GPUs covered.
Google Cloud made PostgreSQL and MySQL connectors generally available in BigQuery Data Transfer Service. They support full and incremental transfers from on-premises environments, Cloud SQL, and other cloud platforms into BigQuery.
Google Cloud introduced a preview of a fully managed remote Model Context Protocol server for BigQuery Data Transfer Service. Model Context Protocol, or MCP, provides a standardized way for AI applications and agents to connect with external tools and data sources.
TelevisaUnivision used Google Cloud infrastructure to serve its ViX streaming platform during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Its Media Content Delivery Network architecture placed cache nodes within local internet-service-provider networks across Mexico and Central and South America, locating video segments within one network hop of viewers.
The U.S. Department of Energy announced an open-model initiative within its Genesis Mission. The initiative is intended to create a new class of open-weight foundation models focused on scientific discovery and engineering productivity.
OpenAI said its Preparedness Framework assessment could not rule out that the unreleased Astra model has reached “critical” cybersecurity capability. Under OpenAI’s stated definition, that level could include autonomously finding and developing effective zero-day vulnerabilities against multiple hardened real-world critical systems, or planning and executing novel end-to-end attacks against highly protected targets from high-level objectives.
Anthropic said Claude Code’s default permission setting will switch to Auto mode on August 14 for Pro, Max and Team subscribers. Auto mode is designed to permit longer autonomous tasks while applying automated safety checks to tool use.
