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U.S. nonfarm payrolls increased by 162,000 in August, compared with a forecast of 55,000 and a previous reading of negative 23,000. Private payrolls rose by 127,000, while government payrolls increased by 35,000.
Sources cited by Reuters said Anthropic expected to make its initial public offering prospectus public in late September. Marketing for the offering could begin as early as mid-October, but the reports did not state that either milestone had been completed.
London-headquartered AI cloud company Nscale was reported to be discussing as much as $3.5 billion of pre-IPO financing. The proposed structure comprised up to $1.5 billion of convertible notes sold to investors and approximately $2 billion of financing from NVIDIA.
Blue Owl Capital was reported to be considering the creation and public listing of a data-center real estate investment trust, or REIT. Approximately $6.5 billion of data-center assets already owned by Blue Owl would serve as the proposed REIT’s initial portfolio.
Global semiconductor-manufacturing equipment billings totaled $40.53 billion in the second quarter of 2026. That represented an increase of 23% from the corresponding quarter of 2025.
AMD announced Threadripper Halo Station at IFA 2026 as a high-end workstation for AI developers. The system combines AMD Threadripper Pro central processing units with AMD Instinct MI350P accelerators.
IBM made its 120-qubit Nighthawk r2 quantum processor available through the IBM Quantum Platform. IBM said the processor can execute more than 100,000 quantum circuits per second.
According to CFM Flash Market data, second-quarter global dynamic random-access memory, or DRAM, market revenue reached US$147.024 billion (1,470.24亿美元). That was a 55.9% quarter-over-quarter increase and a record high.
Quantum Foundry Copenhagen and the Novo Nordisk Foundation announced plans to establish a 5,300-square-meter quantum-chip fabrication facility in Copenhagen. The announcement described it as a European facility for quantum-chip design, manufacturing and scaling.
Oakville, Ontario, and Rocky View County, Alberta, each imposed a one-year pause on data-center development. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew separately rejected a proposed project outside Winnipeg, saying its disadvantages outweighed its benefits.
China published revised Regulations on Emergency Response, Investigation and Handling of Electric Power Safety Accidents (《电力安全事故应急处置和调查处理条例》), which will take effect on January 1, 2027. The revisions extend electricity-safety controls from a primary focus on urban grids to broader urban and rural coverage.
The European Commission said the European Union’s Gas Coordination Group met on Thursday. Following that meeting, a Commission spokesperson reported that EU gas storage was at 65% of capacity.
Gazprom plans to have 73.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas in domestic storage for winter. The figure refers to stored gas volume inside Russia rather than annual production, exports or pipeline capacity.
SharonAI Holdings, whose common stock and warrants trade on Nasdaq under SHAZ and SHAZW, disclosed a five-year strategic agreement with Rafay Systems in an exhibit to a Form 8-K. Sharon AI said it would use Rafay as a centralized orchestration and operations layer across its AI Factory environments.
Google Cloud made Virtual Machine Extension Manager generally available for Compute Engine fleets. The service is designed to replace custom startup-script approaches for managing software extensions inside guest operating systems.
Yahoo uses flexible virtual-machine configurations in Google Cloud’s Managed Service for Apache Spark, formerly Dataproc. Instead of requiring one fixed machine type, Yahoo supplies a ranked list of acceptable VM shapes so the service can search for available capacity.
Google benchmarked Gemma 3 12B and Gemma 3 27B on a Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot cluster connected to a single-host Tensor Processing Unit v6e node pool. The TPU configuration used a 2-by-2 chip topology, with vLLM from the vllm-project/tpu-inference stack serving the models.
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said GPT-6 Astra was available to all Pro, Enterprise and Business Premium users. He also said the model was available through OpenAI’s application programming interface, or API.
Japan’s Ministry of Defense plans to develop satellites equipped with artificial intelligence to analyze space-surveillance data. The stated purpose is to accelerate decision-making connected with Japan’s ability to respond to attacks using long-range missiles.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a review concerning approximately 1,000 Tesla Cybercab vehicles. The agency was examining the certification process and technical data Tesla used to demonstrate compliance with federal motor-vehicle safety standards.
