According to Odaily Planet Daily, the following are key market and financial news items for investors to pay attention to before the US stock market opens: 1. The US Treasury announced an expansion of its long-term nominal Treasury bond repurchase program, which boosted yields on 10-year and 30-year US Treasury bonds, causing a significant drop. 2. US stock index futures rose briefly. Dow Jones futures rose 0.52%, S&P 500 futures rose 0.41%, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.38%. 3. International oil prices plunged briefly. WTI crude oil futures fell 0.05% to $84.017 per barrel; Brent crude oil futures fell 0.04% to $90.982 per barrel. 4. International spot gold and silver prices surged. Spot gold rose 1.94% to $4418.46 per ounce; spot silver rose 2.65% to $64.98 per ounce. 5. European stock indices all rose. The UK FTSE 100 rose 0.18%, the French CAC 40 rose 0.29%, and the German DAX 30 rose 0.16%. 6. Marvell Technology reached a cooperation agreement with Google covering AI, storage, and network chips. The company also issued warrants to Google to purchase up to 59 million shares, with an exercise price set at $206.58 per share. 7. SK Hynix plans to repurchase and cancel 40 trillion won (approximately $28.6 billion) of treasury shares. The repurchase program will begin on August 20 and last for approximately three months. S&P upgraded its rating to "A-" with a "positive" outlook. 8. Biotechnology company Moderna surged 100% pre-market, while Merck rose 7%. The news came that the melanoma skin cancer vaccine jointly developed by the two companies met expectations in a large-scale trial. 9. AI chip company Cerebras released its new rack-mounted AI system, CS-4. The company claims that its system can output 30 times more tokens per second than traditional GPU servers in a single-user scenario. 10. AI computing power leasing provider Nebius plans to issue $4.5 billion in convertible senior notes, with the funds to be used for building data centers and developing AI cloud services. Nebius shares fell nearly 6% pre-market. 1. Morgan Stanley's latest forecast predicts that the price of mature DRAM such as DDR4 will rise by 50% in the third quarter of 2026, and by another 10% in the fourth quarter. 12. Goldman Sachs predicts that the space economy will reach $1.8 trillion by 2035, at which point private capital will replace government funding as the industry's largest growth engine.

According to Gate.com data, the US dollar index (DXY) fell more than 0.50% intraday, currently trading at 99.15. The euro/dollar exchange rate (EUR/USD) extended its intraday gains to 0.50%, currently trading at 1.1632.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li stated that the tech industry needs to better explain the value of AI to the public and warned that growing anti-AI sentiment in the US could pose risks to global AI development. In an interview with Bloomberg, Li said that tech professionals need to strengthen communication with the public and demonstrate the positive impact of AI technology. She pointed out, "If we don't demonstrate a positive attitude and a positive development path, everyone will be affected." The US has significant influence in the global tech field, and if it fails to demonstrate a "positive attitude and development path for AI," it will ultimately affect the entire world. As a leading researcher in computer vision, Li has been continuously pushing AI technology from the laboratory to real-world applications in recent years. Her AI startup, World Labs, focuses on developing spatial intelligence technology, exploring AI's ability to understand and interact with the real world. Li believes that the current AI industry faces not only technological challenges but also issues such as social acceptance, public trust, and the regulatory environment. With the rapid popularization of generative AI, concerns about employment impact, data privacy, and security risks are increasing, and the backlash against AI development in American society is growing. She emphasized that the AI industry needs to more proactively explain how the technology can improve fields such as healthcare, scientific research, and productivity, rather than simply focusing on technological competition itself. In recent years, major global technology companies have continuously increased their AI investments, driving the development of technologies such as large-scale models, AI infrastructure, and intelligent agents. However, at the same time, AI regulation, job displacement, and social impact have also become focal points of concern for policymakers and the public. (Bloomberg)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that private equity firm Eagle Point Credit Management LLC is providing a loan of approximately $1.3 billion to a large AI data center in Texas, linked to Anthropic, marking another major deal in the AI infrastructure financing boom. This debt financing is part of a roughly $16 billion project financing scheme by data center developer Nexus Data Centers. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that Nexus plans to use the funds to complete the construction of a 2,900-acre data center campus in Hubbard, Texas. The project will include independent natural gas power generation facilities to meet the large-scale AI computing demands. Anthropic will serve as the primary tenant of the data center, providing computing infrastructure for its AI model training and inference operations. Eagle Point reportedly began preparing for the loan around September of last year. This $1.3 billion private equity financing demonstrates that with the rapid growth in demand for AI model training and inference, infrastructure such as data centers and power facilities are attracting increasing amounts of large-scale capital. In recent years, investment in the AI industry chain has expanded from chip and model companies to the computing infrastructure sector. The construction of hyperscale data centers requires tens of billions of dollars in investment, and private lending is becoming an important channel for technology companies and infrastructure developers to obtain long-term capital. (Bloomberg)

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