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Citadel Advisors increased its Fabrinet position by 2,957% while the optical manufacturing specialist reported a $1 billion data center interconnect run rate. CEO Seamus Grady declared there's "no end in sight" to customer demand as the company expands capacity from $5.8 billion to $9.8 billion by early 2027.
British AI company Quantexa is considering a multibillion-dollar stock market listing in the UK or US, CEO Vishal Marria told Reuters. The decision highlights ongoing tensions as London's stock market continues losing tech firms to US exchanges offering deeper capital pools and higher valuations.
European Central Bank economists caution that an AI market correction is probable, drawing parallels to the dot-com bubble. Even if AI delivers on its promises, overstretched valuations and investor overconfidence in AI could trigger a sharp downturn affecting European pension funds and global markets.
Baidu reported its fifth consecutive quarterly revenue drop to RMB31.3bn ($4.62bn), down 4% year-over-year, as its traditional online marketing business declined 19% despite AI cloud infrastructure revenue surging 50%. CEO Robin Li pledged to return the Ernie model to AI's frontier amid mounting competitive pressure.
Razorpay unveiled Vulcan, India's first transformer-based AI foundation model for payments, trained on 3 trillion data points from 4 billion transactions. Built with Nvidia and AWS, the model delivers 8-10% higher payment success rates and detects 8x more international card fraud. Early adopters including Blinkit and redBus are already seeing results.
SK hynix announced a massive $29 billion share buyback and raised its shareholder return target above 50% of free cash flow. The move comes as AI infrastructure demand for high-bandwidth memory intensifies, with Elon Musk calling memory the biggest bottleneck in AI expansion and Goldman Sachs projecting agentic AI will consume 24 times more tokens by 2030.
Synchrony Financial announced a collaboration with OpenAI to integrate store credit cards for Amazon, Walmart and Lowe's into ChatGPT for AI-powered commerce. But the card issuer's chief strategy officer says full payment integration will take six to twelve months, with unresolved questions around fee splits and consumer adoption.
World Liberty Financial, the Trump-backed crypto firm, is collaborating with Hong Kong-based WorldClaw to offer access to 43 Chinese AI models from companies flagged by U.S. agencies for national security concerns. The platform accepts the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin as payment, creating potential conflicts as the administration simultaneously restricts Chinese AI access.
Nvidia disclosed major equity positions worth over $50 billion in its latest SEC filing, including a $21 billion stake in SpaceX and $30 billion in Intel shares. The chipmaker's strategic investments span AI infrastructure, telecommunications, and chip development, reinforcing its dominance in the AI ecosystem.
Nvidia commits up to $105 billion to guarantee OpenAI's massive Ohio data center at PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, while investing $1.5 billion in SoftBank-linked data center developer SB Energy. The deal positions Nvidia as the exclusive chip provider for what could become one of the world's largest AI infrastructure projects.
Wall Street trading firm Jane Street took a $15 billion hit in July from its exposure to AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness and tech sector sell-off. Despite the loss, the firm has generated over $40 billion in trading revenue year-to-date, surpassing its entire 2025 performance.
Globant stock tumbled after reporting Q2 2026 earnings that missed expectations, with adjusted EPS of $1.40 falling short of $1.50 estimates. Despite AI Pods ARR surging 60% sequentially to $52.8 million, the company slashed full-year guidance citing AI headwinds eroding its legacy time-and-materials business, prompting Wedbush to downgrade the stock to Neutral.
Heartflow stock surged 16.1% in after-hours trading after the AI-powered diagnostics company posted Q2 revenue of $64.1 million, up 48% year-over-year, crushing Wall Street expectations. The medical technology company raised its full-year 2026 revenue guidance to $246-250 million, signaling strong adoption of its coronary artery disease platform.
The AI competition between OpenAI and Anthropic intensifies as new data reveals OpenAI's annualized revenue exceeds $40 billion with 20% month-over-month growth in July. Despite Anthropic's $47 billion revenue lead and 44% market share among business users, OpenAI is gaining ground through new privacy features and enterprise products.
China's leading foundry SMIC reported its first $3 billion quarter with revenue up 36.1% year-on-year and net profit tripling to $479.2 million. The Chinese chipmaker is raising wafer prices and operating at 93.7% capacity utilization as US sanctions wall off China's AI chip demand from TSMC and Samsung, creating a captive AI market for the only Chinese foundry producing 7nm logic chips.
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