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Alibaba Group Holding (09988.HK; BABA.N) priced 710 million new ordinary shares at HK$112.70 each, for a placement totaling approximately HK$80 billion, or about US$10.2 billion. The placement had been priced but was not yet completed; completion was expected on August 26, 2026.
Hugging Face, an AI model-hosting and open-source community platform, has received merger-and-acquisition interest associated with a potential value of at least US$13 billion. The reports describe inbound interest and a sale exploration, not an agreed acquisition.
Japan’s Green Transformation Acceleration Agency invested a combined ¥20 billion, reported as approximately US$125 million, in two startups. The recipients were fusion-technology developer Kyoto Fusioneering and plastics-recycling company JEPLAN.
Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan said AI-related initial public offerings raised nearly HK$100 billion from December through May. That represented approximately 55% of all IPO proceeds raised in Hong Kong during the same period.
At Hot Chips 2026, Samsung discussed evolving the base die used in High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). The company described fabricating the HBM base die on a logic process node rather than treating it solely as a conventional memory component.
d-Matrix presented its Raptor accelerator at Hot Chips 2026. The device is designed for generative-AI inference, distinguishing its target workload from general-purpose central processing units or training-focused accelerator systems.
Montage Technology (澜起科技) announced that its PCI Express (PCIe) 6.x and Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.x retimer had passed a series of certifications from the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG). The product was consequently added to PCI-SIG’s official supplier list.
Innolight (中际旭创; 300308.SZ) said major customers had provided guidance and orders for 2027. It reported that demand for 800-gigabit-per-second and 1.6-terabit-per-second optical modules in 2027 continued to grow rapidly compared with 2026.
China Tungsten High-Tech (中钨高新; 000657.SZ), referred to in the digest as Zhongwu High-tech, approved an expansion by its controlled subsidiary Shenzhen Jinzhou Precision Technology. The project targets annual capacity of 140 million high-precision micro-tools for high-speed, high-frequency AI printed circuit boards (PCBs).
The Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission formally approved a first-of-a-kind demonstration power-station project using a domestically developed 300-megawatt-class F-class heavy-duty gas turbine. The approval was issued as Guangdong Development and Reform Approval Document No. 6 of 2026.
Hungary was gradually restoring generation at the Paks nuclear power plant, the country’s only nuclear station. The plant targeted a return to full output by Wednesday.
Severe storms and flooding had affected Indiana since August 11. By the morning of August 23, local electricity providers reported that more than 28,000 customers remained without power.
Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad announced a gas discovery in southern Fars Province containing more than 7.5 trillion cubic feet, equivalent to approximately 212.4 billion cubic meters. The announcement was made on August 23.
China’s intelligent-computing capacity reached 2,185 exa floating-point operations per second (EFLOPS) at the end of June 2026. The figure was published in the Green Computing Development Research Report 2026 (《绿色算力发展研究报告（2026年）》).
China Mobile reported first-half compute-service revenue of ¥52.9 billion, up 14% year over year. This category is broader than GPU-cloud revenue and includes multiple computing-service activities.
China Telecom reported that first-half intelligent-computing revenue increased 95% year over year. It also reported a 94% utilization rate for intelligent-computing capacity.
Baidu reported that revenue from AI-cloud infrastructure increased 50% year over year. Revenue from its graphics processing unit (GPU) cloud business rose 283%.
Researchers at French quantum-computing startup Pasqal developed an AI agent that accepts instructions written in English. The agent generates corresponding quantum-computing code from those natural-language requests.
Noitom (诺亦腾) released HiPHI at the 2026 World Robot Conference. HiPHI is a high-precision optical motion-capture dataset intended for humanoid-robot learning, digital-human development and computer-graphics research.
United Imaging Healthcare (联影医疗) and Tianjin University jointly released uMR Divine Vision (uMR 神观) at China’s first national magnetic-resonance brain-computer-interface conference in Tianjin. The event’s theme was “Integration, Decoding and Modulation—Opening a New Era of Brain-Computer Interaction.”
