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Bitcoin trades near $77,600, up 23% in August
Bitcoin was still up 23% in August, compared with a 9% gain for gold and a 4% rise for the Nasdaq.
SK On signs $1.1b battery supply deal with US Neovolt
Under the deal, SK On will provide 9 GWh of lithium iron phosphate battery cells from 2027 to 2031.
Anthropic sued by music publishers over Claude training
The complaint alleges the works were obtained through torrenting, scraping, and downloads.
A16z launches $1.1b fund for AI hardware, infrastructure
Its bets span chips, robots, memory, data centers, and the infrastructure around them.
US crypto custody firm BitGo to buy NYDIG unit for $42.5m
The deal includes US$7 million in cash and about US$35.5 million in BitGo stock.
Bitcoin holds near $80,000 ahead of Fed chair’s speech
US spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds took in US$2.8 billion across eight sessions.
Workday Q2 revenue rises 13% to $2.6b
For the third quarter, Workday forecast subscription revenue of US$2.515 billion and a non-GAAP operating margin of 30.0%.
Marvell forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates on AI demand
Marvell’s shares fell more than 1% in extended trading after the results.
Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9b: report
If completed, the transaction would be one of Nvidia’s largest acquisitions.
AWS, Nvidia to deploy 2 million GPUs in AI infrastructure
The company will deploy 2 million additional Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs) across AWS’s global infrastructure in 2027 and 2028.



