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According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction event on Polymarket "ITF M25 Oviedo Men's Singles Alejandro Garcia Carbajal vs. Javier Barranco Cosano", the sub-market "Spread +/-1.5" option "Cosano" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 26.5% an hour ago to the current 51% (a fluctuation of 24.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

On August 21, MEXC Ventures held the Day 3 Helicopter Trip and Closing Gathering in Bali during CoinFest 2026. The event invited 32 KOLs and industry guests to participate in a 50-minute helicopter experience, overlooking the southern coast of Bali and the main venue of CoinFest from the air.Later that day, 100 participants, partners, and industry professionals attended the Closing Gathering. MEXC CEO Vugar and MEXC Product Director Vivien shared observations on structural opportunities in the primary and secondary markets during the MEXC Alpha Insights session, and introduced the strategic direction of MEXC Ventures for the upcoming quarters. According to the organizers, the event aimed to provide a platform for CoinFest participants to exchange industry insights and establish collaborative connections.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "Democratic Party 2028 Presidential Candidate" event is currently the most actively traded on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative pool size reaching $12.654 billion. The option with the highest market consensus is "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez," corresponding to a winning probability of approximately 22.9%.

According to market news, Strive's SATA fundraising amount is expected to be sufficient to purchase more than 160 bitcoins.

NVIDIA is in deep negotiations to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a developer of power infrastructure for data centers. Cloverleaf primarily secures stable power supplies and land with power supply conditions for large data center projects, with a current project reserve scale exceeding 10 gigawatts. This potential deal will further expand NVIDIA's layout in the artificial intelligence infrastructure field to ensure the data center capacity needed for its chips in the future.Previously, NVIDIA has also invested in power developers such as Lancium and SB Energy, a subsidiary of SoftBank.

According to a report by Infomax under the Korea Herald, SK Hynix is advancing its plan to build a semiconductor factory in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, with an investment scale of hundreds of trillions of Korean won. SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won recently visited the area personally. Miyagi Prefecture is one of the three major semiconductor industry bases supported by the Japanese government.The report states that this factory will be an overseas production base added by SK Hynix outside of its clusters in Yongin, South Korea, and Hunan, China, aimed at meeting the ongoing tight global supply and demand situation for memory. If the plan materializes, SK Hynix will become the third foreign semiconductor company to establish a factory in Japan, following Micron and TSMC. The report points out that due to ongoing pressure from the United States for South Korean companies to increase investments in the U.S., this investment in Japan may further intensify U.S. pressure, while the Japanese government's subsidy policy is also an important consideration. SK Hynix has not officially responded to this news. Previously, on August 20, SK Hynix announced a 40 trillion won share buyback cancellation plan.

Market news reports that Meta Platforms is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Microsoft's Azure AI services.

According to reports from the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, humanoid intelligence company Current Robotics has publicly disclosed its financing progress for the first time: the company has completed seed round, angel round, and Pre-A round financing, with a total financing amount of hundreds of millions of RMB. The company's investors include financial investment institutions such as BV Baidu Ventures, Hillhouse Capital, Oasis Capital, Monolith Capital, Qianhai Ark, Fosun Wealth, Junshan Capital, as well as industry players like Zhiyuan Robotics, Xinghai Map, and Jike Technology.The financing funds will mainly be used to promote the large-scale collection of human body data, with a focus on investing in the research and development of core technologies such as full-body dexterous operation models and interactive world models.

According to Reuters, citing informed sources, Samsung Electronics has raised prices for some new advanced foundry service orders by up to 15%, due to a surge in demand for AI chips leading to tight capacity. The company has long lagged behind TSMC in the foundry sector. Demand from Chinese customers is particularly strong, but Samsung must prioritize serving U.S. customers and reserve some capacity to support its own chip production, making it unable to take on all orders. Affected by U.S. export restrictions on advanced chip equipment to China, Chinese companies are increasingly reliant on overseas foundries, with some Chinese customers accepting the maximum price increase.Informed sources stated that Samsung raised the prices for the 4nm (SF4) process in July, with price increases of 10% to 15% for Chinese and U.S. customers, and 5% to 10% for Taiwanese customers; the price for 5nm (SF5) wafers increased by 10% to 15%, nearly 10% higher than the older 8nm process. The SF4 production line at the Pyeongtaek factory has been operating at full capacity since the end of last year, producing logic chips for customers like Qualcomm and providing basic bare chips for Samsung's own HBM. Analysts point out that after TSMC's advanced capacity was fully booked, customers turned to Samsung and Intel, giving Samsung room to raise prices.Samsung's foundry business has been continuously losing money since 2022, but the company expects to quickly turn a profit driven by improved utilization rates, yield improvements, and rising prices. Foundry revenue in the second half of the year is expected to grow by double digits year-on-year, with advanced processes accounting for more than half, and AI and high-performance computing applications accounting for over 30%. Companies like Tesla, Apple, Broadcom, and NVIDIA have already reached relevant cooperation agreements with Samsung, and Google is also in talks to use the SF4 process.

The B.AI Android App officially upgrades the "Service Availability Detection" feature, adding the display of "Real-time Response Time" data. Users can intuitively obtain the precise latency value (ms) of the current node when performing line detection, and flexibly filter the optimal service address based on their own network conditions. This greatly enhances the transparency and decision-making efficiency of line selection, helping users achieve an extremely smooth AI interaction experience. Download or update the B.AI App now to start a smarter and more stable new conversation experience.

Venture capital fund Team8 announced the completion of a new fundraise of $365 million. This round of fundraising includes $265 million for Team8 Capital's third fund, as well as over $100 million for follow-on investments in existing portfolio companies.The new fund will focus on investing in seed and Series A stage AI-native companies, covering areas such as cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, and fintech, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure projects that help businesses deploy AI while ensuring security, governance, and control capabilities. Team8 currently manages assets close to $2 billion.Previously, Team8 has co-invested in several cryptocurrency and AI companies, including cryptocurrency institutional wallet developer Curv, AI compliance platform IVIX, and AI data leak prevention company Jazz.

According to South Korean media ZDNet Korea, Samsung Electronics is adjusting the original purpose of its NRD-K Line 2 at the Giheung campus from a research and development facility to a wafer foundry line, with the main target product being the 2nm base chips required for NVIDIA's HBM. This production line is expected to be operational in the second half of 2028, adopting a "Send-Fab" model, which involves receiving wafers from other mass production lines and performing specific processes.NRD-K is the most advanced composite research and development campus built by Samsung Electronics to seize future semiconductor technology, with a total investment of approximately 20 trillion won, planning for three production lines, of which the first line is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2024. This adjustment aims to proactively respond to the expansion of HBM demand driven by investments in AI infrastructure. Samsung plans to first apply the 2nm process to custom HBM and HBM5 to maintain performance advantages.Industry insiders point out that the scale of NRD-K Line 2 is relatively small, making it suitable for operation in the Send-Fab format. However, there are still about two years until the production line is operational, and the final purpose may be adjusted again based on market conditions. Samsung had previously considered using this production line for DRAM production, but after modifications to the relevant plans this month, DRAM capacity will be more concentrated in the Pyeongtaek campus. Equipment procurement orders have not yet been officially issued.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich stated that the company has launched a new bond issuance program called BitBonds and has completed its first issuance.This issuance, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Metaplanet Securities, involves the issuance of Series 21 to 24 unsecured ordinary bonds under Japan's small-scale private placement system, raising a total of approximately 200 million yen. The scale is pilot in nature, aimed at establishing a framework for subsequent bond issuance, distribution, and management.

Apple (AAPL.O) has invested hundreds of millions in Houston, and the first batch of advanced AI servers has been successfully delivered.

The B.AI APP for Android officially launched on August 12, providing a complete mobile experience that continues the core functionalities of the web version. This update introduces the "Service Availability Detection" feature, which includes a built-in API and real-time detection mechanism for web lines, helping users quickly obtain available access addresses and reducing the impact of changes in network environments.Android users can visit the B.AI official website, click the "APP" button in the upper right corner to scan the QR code, or directly scan the official poster QR code to complete the installation.

According to Jiemian News, the embodied base model company LatentVerse announced the completion of hundreds of millions in seed round financing. Investors include Hillhouse Venture Capital, Qingliu Capital, Inno Fund, Zhiyuan, and Star Motion Era.It is understood that LatentVerse was established in May 2026 by an embodied intelligence research team from the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences at Tsinghua University.

According to reports from the investment community, Daimon Robotics announced the completion of a strategic round of financing worth hundreds of millions, led by Ant Group, with existing shareholders participating in the oversubscription. Two months ago, Daimon completed a Series A financing of hundreds of millions. Along with this round led by Ant Group, Daimon has gathered a group of leading industrial capital including China Merchants Venture Capital, Lenovo Capital, Huichuan Industrial Investment, China Mobile, and China Telecom.It is reported that Daimon recently officially launched the world's first tactile anchoring world model, Daimon-TWM, which integrates native tactile perception throughout understanding, reasoning, prediction, and verification, thereby constructing a "tactile nervous system" that connects fingertip perception to brain reasoning and back to action control, promoting embodied intelligence from "seeing the world" to "understanding the world" and "interacting with the world." Based on the widely deployed tactile perception devices and collection systems, Daimon has built the world's largest tactile multimodal physical world dataset, Daimon-Infinity.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "National Bank Open: Alexandra Eala vs. Belinda Bencic," the probability of the "Alexandra Eala" option in the sub-market "National Bank Open: Alexandra Eala vs. Belinda Bencic" has experienced significant fluctuations, plummeting from 48.5% an hour ago to the current 23.5% (a fluctuation of 25%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Bloomberg, former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI fund Situational Awareness has splurged $400 million this week to support a private company, which is the semiconductor manufacturing startup Source Foundry. It is reported that VC giant Sequoia Capital has also provided support for this startup. So far, representatives from Situational Awareness and Source Foundry have not responded to requests for comments, while Sequoia Capital has declined to confirm the hedge fund's investment situation.It is reported that Source Foundry is dedicated to developing a semiconductor manufacturing process that is simpler, cheaper, and faster than existing methods, aiming to bridge the widening gap between the demand for AI computing power and the capacity expansion of chip manufacturing. Analysts believe that Leopold Aschenbrenner's large-scale investment reflects the ongoing strong demand in the market for new chip manufacturing technologies, as AI developers' demand for computing power is increasing day by day. However, this investment also reveals that Situational Awareness has formed a highly concentrated risk exposure before facing significant financial pressure due to severe fluctuations in its publicly held technology positions.