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Warsh said the Federal Reserve’s 2% inflation objective, measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, remains a “firm and fixed” target. Although summer inflation reports were better than expected, he said they did not demonstrate a meaningful improvement in the underlying trend.
NVIDIA-backed artificial-intelligence cloud provider Lambda raised approximately $1 billion through a private short-term debt transaction. The financing was arranged by JPMorgan and marketed to private-placement investors, according to people familiar with the transaction cited in the Telegram report.
A Blue Owl Capital fund led $2.4 billion of debt financing for cloud-computing provider IREN Ltd. The transaction consists of a $1.2 billion senior secured term loan and $1.2 billion of senior secured notes.
Volato Group, Inc. (SOAR) disclosed that it had executed a definitive merger agreement with Alignment Engine. The parties said they expected to close shortly after execution, but completion remained subject to the satisfaction or waiver of applicable closing conditions.
FingerMotion completed its acquisition of a 9.9% equity interest in Lyken AI Computing Inc., which operates as Lyken.AI, on August 17, 2026. The seller was Alset AI Ventures Inc., which retained a 90.1% controlling interest after the transaction.
Singapore-headquartered SuperX AI Technology Ltd. disclosed through a Form 6-K press-release exhibit that it had secured a purchase order from Ezisight Australia Pty Ltd. The order covers 128 B300 AI servers and was described by SuperX as marking its official entry into the Australian market.
TCL CSOT (TCL华星) Chief Executive Officer Zhao Jun said at a TCL Technology investor meeting that the company plans to enter optical communications through the Shenzhen Huazhaoxingguang project. He linked the initiative to the expansion of artificial-intelligence data centers and divided the business plan into three stages.
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers published a technical paper examining thermal-tuning overhead in wafer-scale optical interconnects for large-language-model mixture-of-experts training. The analysis identified repeated tuning stalls during communication phases.
Researchers from Peking University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other institutions reported a method for wafer-scale growth of single-crystalline two-dimensional semiconductors. The demonstrated materials were monolayer tungsten disulfide, or WS2, and molybdenum disulfide, or MoS2.
University of Michigan-Dearborn researchers published a technical paper on generative design of liquid-cooling channels for 2.5-dimensional and 3-dimensional integrated advanced packages. The work uses a physics-guided generative-design framework for cooling-channel topology optimization.
Alignment Engine said its powered industrial campus in Ohio currently has 154 megawatts available and total capacity of 480 megawatts. The company presented the existing 154 megawatts as a foundation for deploying high-performance artificial-intelligence compute infrastructure.
U.S. uranium concentrate production totaled 2.1 million pounds of triuranium octoxide, or U3O8, in 2025. U3O8 is the uranium-concentrate form identified by the U.S. Energy Information Administration as the base component of nuclear-reactor fuel.
South African state-owned utility Eskom said Koeberg Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 shut down safely under established procedures after a turbine trip during the early hours of August 27. With Unit 1 no longer supplying electricity, the nuclear station was temporarily fully offline.
Dongfang Electric Group said a domestically developed F-class heavy-duty gas turbine departed Deyang, Sichuan, on August 28 for shipment to Kazakhstan. The turbine has a rated capacity of 50 megawatts.
Energy Transfer LP’s Hugh Brinson Pipeline in Texas was scheduled to begin operating on September 1. The pipeline is expected to carry approximately 2.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day from the Permian Basin toward East Texas.
Alibaba Cloud launched its first cloud region in Brazil. The region is composed of two new data centers, distinguishing the deployment from a single-facility edge location.
NVIDIA introduced TensorRT Model Connect as a way to move an open model from a checkpoint to inference using two commands. The tool is aimed at simplifying the path between obtaining model weights and running the model in an inference environment.
Google Cloud made stateful processing available in preview for BigQuery continuous queries. The feature allows continuous streaming queries to retain and use state while processing incoming data.
Google Cloud made a synthetic-data generator generally available for its Managed Service for Apache Kafka. The tool is designed to populate a newly created Kafka cluster with mock data without requiring the user to modify a client application or start a separate virtual machine.
QuEra Computing reported that an AI agent using Anthropic’s Claude developed and validated control logic for the laser system in a QuEra quantum computer. The resulting logic recovered the laser system within seconds.
Kunlun Tech’s AI platform SkyProduction (天工工作台) integrated Alibaba’s Wan 3.0 video-generation model. The platform opened the model to all users free of charge for a limited three-day period from August 28 through August 30.
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (中国工商银行) Vice President Zhao Guide discussed the bank’s use of artificial intelligence during its 2026 interim-results presentation on August 28. He said the bank had cumulatively implemented more than 600 large-model business scenarios.
