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Leopold Aschenbrenner's fund owns 21.1% of SharonAI (SHAZ). It's currently sitting $101 million below cost.
Situational Awareness filed a Schedule 13D reporting 8,070,950 SharonAI (SHAZ) shares at a cost of $523.9 million. The same position was in its filings before the fund's July losses, and it's still there.
Korean investors put $798 million into a 3x leveraged semiconductor fund (SOXL) in one week. It fell 9.5% the next session.
Korean investors made a 3x semiconductor fund their number one overseas purchase in the week of Nvidia's earnings, with $798.04 million going in. That's about 58 times what they put into Nvidia itself.
GE Vernova (GEV) is booking turbines years out. Data centers are buying Bloom Energy (BE) fuel cells instead.
Heavy-duty gas turbines are booked years out, so AI data centers are paying for onsite power instead. What GE Vernova, Bloom Energy, Power Solutions International, NRG and EQT each sell into that gap.
A thermal drone found 45 gas generators running at the Nebius (NBIS) data center in New Jersey. The state says it issued no permits.
Floodlight's thermal drone footage shows at least 45 of 62 gas generators operating at DataOne in Vineland, the site supplying Microsoft under Nebius' $17 billion deal. NJDEP says it has issued no permits and none are under review.
Growing up, nobody in my school knew what Korea was. Now it's the world's No. 3 AI power.
My classmates knew exactly two Asian countries. Stanford's AI Index 2026 now ranks South Korea third in the world in AI models, and the memory chips behind the whole AI trade come from Seoul.
Meta (META) is testing robots to swap cables and reset servers. One could take 80% of some workloads, a worker says.
Wired reported Meta is testing robots from Kinova, ABB, and Watney Robotics to swap cables, power cycle servers, and reseat parts at its Iowa and Ohio data centers. One worker estimates a cable bot could replace up to 80% of some workloads. Meta says it needs more workers, not fewer.
IREN signed a frontier AI lab and is paying 9% to finance the GPUs. Microsoft deployment debt costs 6%.
IREN (IREN) reported fiscal 2026 results and a new multi-year contract with an unnamed leading frontier AI lab. The same release prices its GPU debt by customer: 9.0% on $2.4 billion for non investment grade deployments, 6.0% on the $3.6 billion behind Microsoft.
Meta (META) is asking TikTok and YouTube to copy its teen limits. Saying yes costs Meta another $5.3 billion.
Meta ran full-page ads in three national papers urging TikTok and YouTube to adopt the teen limits from its settlement. If the rivals comply, Meta pays the states another $5.3 billion, and New York's payout nearly doubles.
China's top DRAM maker ChangXin (CXMT) lost money a year ago. It just earned $10.8 billion in six months
China's largest DRAM maker reported 150.31 billion yuan ($22.4 billion) in first-half revenue, up 873.6%, with profit 36% above its own IPO forecast.
NBA star Kevin Durant put $250,000 into Hugging Face. Nvidia's (NVDA) reported deal makes it worth about $60 million.
Nvidia (NVDA) is reportedly buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, and NBA star Kevin Durant's $250,000 early stake may be worth more than $60 million. His firm also got into Coinbase at a $1.6 billion valuation and Whoop at $125 million.
What is a Korean theme stock? A lighting company just became Korea's hottest chip trade.
Kumho Electric has no announced semiconductor business. Its shares rose more than tenfold in two months anyway. How Korean theme stocks, or temaju, turn a name into a rally.
Washington is reportedly drafting a rule to stop Chinese AI firms from renting Nvidia (NVDA) chips overseas
The Commerce Department is preparing a rule that would stop Chinese AI companies from remotely using advanced U.S. chips housed in data centers in Thailand, Singapore, and other countries, The Information reported Friday. A draft could go to AI companies in September.
Citadel Securities made a record $7.3 billion last quarter. Jane Street lost $15 billion in July.
Bloomberg reports the market maker more than tripled its second-quarter trading revenue to $7.3 billion, with net income up more than 250%. Jane Street still crossed $40 billion for the year despite a $15 billion July loss tied to Situational Awareness.
Simmtech makes 70% of the boards under Nvidia's new memory modules. The stock rose 12.6% after Nvidia's earnings.
Simmtech, a substrate maker from Cheongju, closed up 12.60% after Nvidia's results and is up 27.3% in a week. It makes about 70% of the substrates for SOCAMM, the memory module in Nvidia's AI servers.
Marvell (MRVL) now sees $18 billion in revenue by fiscal 2028, and that already includes the Google deal
Marvell reported record second-quarter revenue of $2.739 billion, up 37%, and CEO Matt Murphy raised the outlook on the call to about $12 billion for fiscal 2027 and $18 billion for fiscal 2028. Revenue tied to the Google warrant deal is already in those numbers.
Trump praised Micron (MU) again. The stock rose for two minutes (August 27, 2026)
Trump's third Micron post since July landed at 2:31 p.m. Thursday. The stock rose for two minutes, gave it back, and stayed about 2% lower. The first two posts were followed by drops of 10.6% and 4.3%.
Sivers Semiconductors (SIVEF) posted a negative gross margin and never explained it
Sivers Semiconductors booked Q2 net sales of SEK 53.8 million against SEK 73.4 million of cost of goods sold, and the report never discusses the gap. Its two pipeline disclosures imply different starting points. The US line fell about 14% while Stockholm closed before the report landed.
Software's biggest day of 2026, and the Salesforce (CRM) beat behind it is mostly paper
Software is on pace for its biggest day of 2026, led by a 22% jump in Salesforce. But the $5.90 adjusted EPS everyone is quoting includes a $2.6 billion investment gain the company doesn't strip out. Back it out and the beat is single digits at best.
SK Hynix (SKHY) breaks ground on $4 billion Indiana HBM plant as production slips to 2029
SK Hynix broke ground Thursday on its first US plant, an advanced packaging site for AI memory in West Lafayette, Indiana. The company now targets mass production in the second half of 2029. Its CHIPS Act award said 2028.
Meta (META) could spend $10 billion a year on Anthropic even after restricting its own engineers from using its tools
Meta is one of Anthropic's largest customers and is spending hundreds of millions a month on its tools, the New York Times reported, two months after Meta limited engineers from using Claude Code.
Wolfe Research named Alphabet (GOOGL) a top 2027 pick and sees cloud platform revenue up 125%
Wolfe Research named Alphabet (GOOGL) a top pick for 2027, kept its $460 price target and raised its 2027 estimates. Its third-quarter cloud platform number runs far above the Street.
Meta (META) eyes $720 million South Korea bond sale to fund AI spending
Meta is quietly testing South Korea's bond market. It's looking at selling at least 1 trillion won ($720M) of won bonds to help fund AI, which would put a rare big foreign name in the Arirang market.
Dataminr landed a government contract with the Air Force. Is an IPO next?
Dataminr won an Air Force contract worth up to $317.8 million for AI alerting built on public data. The intelligence firm is still private, with no IPO on file. Here is where things stand.
Ameresco (AMRC) insiders bought more stock at $21, two weeks after buying at $25
Founder-CEO George Sakellaris and three Ameresco directors bought about $559,000 of AMRC stock near $21, about 15 percent below the same insiders' early-August buys near $25.