Nvidia guaranteed $105 billion for OpenAI’s Ohio data centre campus on Monday, finalising a deal that came in $145 billion below early public estimates.
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Samsung and SK Hynix Both Fall Over 7% as Chip Selloff Crosses Into Asia
KOSPI fell 5.5% and Samsung shed 7.3% on Wednesday as the global chip selloff deepened, with US 30-year Treasury yields reaching their highest level since 2007.
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Trump Pauses Canada’s 50% Tariffs for Three Days After Last-Minute Deal Claim
Trump paused 50% tariffs on Canadian goods Wednesday, citing an imminent deal less than 90 minutes before the scheduled 12:01 a.m. deadline.
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China Uses Taiwan’s 2026 Local Elections to Test Its 2028 Influence Playbook
Beijing set a goal at its Beidaihe retreat of shaping Taiwan’s November local elections, targeting the Kaohsiung mayoral race with fabricated polling data.
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Gaza Talks Stall as Netanyahu Rejects Military Withdrawal Terms
Kushner and Netanyahu met in Jerusalem on Monday but failed to bridge the core divide over whether Hamas disarmament or Israeli withdrawal should happen first.
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Stripe Pays Over $7 Billion for OpenRouter, Betting AI Model Routing Becomes Core Infrastructure
Stripe finalised a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion on August 16-17, a 5.4x jump over the AI gateway startup’s May 2026 Series B valuation of $1.3 billion.
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Reddit Joins the S&P 500 Monday as Index Funds Scramble to Buy 16.7 Million Shares
S&P Dow Jones Indices announced on August 13 that Reddit will enter the index before markets open on August 18, making it the second pure-play social media stock in the S&P 500 after Meta.
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Australia Holds Rates at 4.35% as Bullock Warns Middle East Risk Could Force Further Hikes
The Reserve Bank of Australia kept its cash rate unchanged at 4.35% in a unanimous August 11 decision, but governor Michele Bullock explicitly left the door open to further increases.
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Russia Probes NATO Defenses Daily With Drones, Germany’s Military Chief Warns
Germany’s top general has warned that Russia is conducting daily hybrid attacks across NATO, citing an explosive-rigged drone at Leipzig Airport and surveillance flights over Patriot missile sites.
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Car Bomb Kills Haftar’s Intelligence Chief as Drones Strike Libya’s Largest Refinery
The assassination of Fawzi al-Mansouri in Benghazi and simultaneous drone attacks on the Zawiya refinery have plunged Libya into fresh crisis, imperilling a US-brokered plan to reunify the country.