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It is reported that Nvidia has notified customers that the price of AI-related products will increase by more than 15%

Comparing the news, according to people familiar with the matter, some major Nvidia customers have been notified that the price of servers equipped with its artificial intelligence chips will increase by more than 15% in most cases. The price increase will take effect early next year, and affected systems include models equipped with Vera Rubin and Grace Blackwell flagship chips.

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The US Federal Trade Commission is urged to investigate AI companies' act of destroying books

Comparatively, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is being urged to investigate the acts of some AI companies obtaining AI training data by buying, scanning, and destroying books. According to an open letter obtained by Axios, more than a dozen civil society organizations are calling on the FTC to use regulatory powers to examine what large AI companies call disruptive new methods of data acquisition. Earlier, the “Washington Post” quoted court documents as reporting that Anthropic had spent millions of dollars to buy books and remove book spines to scan the pages and use them to train Claude; Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI have also faced similar copyright lawsuits. These organizations want the FTC to further determine whether such actions constitute unfair competition practices. They believe that by acquiring and destroying physical books, AI companies may actually be emptying the market's key data resources. In particular, some rare books may disappear permanently as a result, while digital companies hold the last few physical copies. Relevant organizations warn that this practice of hoarding and destroying may increase competitors' data acquisition costs, while cutting off important raw materials that AI startups rely on to train models, thereby further expanding competitive barriers for leading AI companies. However, rather than requiring the FTC to restrict AI model training, they want regulators to focus on reviewing the destruction of existing works and intervene before large AI companies use this to establish a market advantage. According to the open letter, this approach is not simply a data acquisition strategy, but may become another structural means for leading AI companies to build a systemic moat that is difficult to overcome. Currently, the FTC under the Trump administration wants to maintain a relatively friendly regulatory environment for US companies, and on the other hand, it continues to release attention to market competition and the monopoly risk of large technology companies.

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Korean retail investors are frantically betting on the recovery of the memory chip sector: 118.5 billion won in a single week to buy US memory ETFs

According to data from the Korea Securities Depository and Settlement Agency, Korean retail investors made net purchases of the “Roundhill Memory ETF” between August 14 and 20 this week, making it the second-largest net purchase of the country's overseas individual stocks and ETF investments (after Alphabet, Google's parent company). This ETF is an actively managed product, mainly investing in major memory chip companies such as Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron. Recently, memory chip stocks have clearly picked up. The stock prices of SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics rose 21.6% and 21.8% respectively from August 10 to 21, both exceeding the 10.4% increase of the Korea Composite Index (KOSPI) during the same period. In the US market, Micron rose about 11% over the same period, and SanDisk increased by about 32%. South Korea's domestic ETF market also saw capital inflows. The data shows that the net inflow of the “TIGER US S&P500 ETF” tracking the S&P 500 index from August 14 to 20 was 1709 billion won, and the net inflow of the “KODEX US NASDAQ 100 ETF” tracking the NASDAQ 100 index was 132.3 billion won. Market participants believe that as expectations for the recovery of the semiconductor cycle heat up, investors are increasing their allocation to the AI chip and memory chip industry chain. (Daum) This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

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A whale that opened an ETH deposit in February is suspected to have cleared its position, making a profit of 1.68 million US dollars

According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Ai (@ai_9684xtpa), an on-chain analyst, a whale that proposed 4819.11 ETH from OKX at an average price of $1941.28 at the end of February this year sold 1,200 tokens at a loss a month ago, recharged all the remaining 3,619 ETH to the trading platform 30 minutes ago, and eventually sold the average price of 2290 US dollars, with an estimated profit of 1.68 million US dollars. This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

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South Korea plans to open virtual asset accounts to about 3,500 companies, and the central bank plans to test AI proxy deposit tokens by the end of 2026

Comparing news, Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park said that the Korean crypto market is shifting from being driven by retail transactions to institutional digital finance. The focus of global financial institutions and enterprises has moved from tokens, exchanges, and prices to escrow, tokenization, stablecoins, payment and settlement infrastructure, and regulatory compliance. The Korea Financial Services Commission has proposed a framework to open corporate virtual asset accounts to approximately 3,500 listed companies and registered professional investors. The National Assembly of Korea has officially passed amendments to the Electronic Securities Act and the Capital Markets Act to incorporate tokenized real-world assets and security tokens into a unified legal framework. The Bank of Korea has completed initial testing of the Project Hangang real-world deposit token project and plans to conduct the second phase of institutional testing in late 2026. Related technical experiments have used wholesale deposit tokens to allow AI agents to execute automated conditional transactions. This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

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OpenAI Acquires Real-Time Database InstantDB Team: Strengthening AI Proxy Infrastructure

In comparison, according to CryptoBriefing, OpenAI has acquired the real-time database platform InstantDB team, which previously served more than 17,000 users and 400,000 applications, and processed about 2.5 billion transactions. InstantDB provides backend as a service (BaaS) products to help developers handle real-time data synchronization. Existing users will need to migrate cloud-hosted apps by August 31, 2027, and the open source code will continue to be available for self-deployment. InstantDB is Y Combinator's 2022 incubation project. The founding team will join OpenAI to strengthen the AI agent application infrastructure, as its AI agent requires persistent state management, real-time data reading and writing, and concurrent conflict processing capabilities, which are in line with InstantDB's dedicated real-time data synchronization infrastructure capabilities.

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Binance contracts left the market flat at the top of the 30-day loss list, with a net loss of $3.46 million

In comparison, according to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Ai (@ai_9684xtpa), the Binance contract real trading account Qiujin topped the 24-hour, 7-day/30-day loss list on the platform. It previously held 250 short BTC orders and opened positions at an average price of $63,592. It closed its position at 8:15 a.m. at an average price of $77,758.91, and ended up losing $3.46 million.

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Arthur Hayes Reminder: FLOP has not been released yet, and there are no presales or meme coins

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes wrote a reminder that Flop Labs has not yet issued FLOP tokens, and there are no pre-sales or meme coins. Hayes stated that FLOP is not officially launched yet, and reminded the community not to mistake related tokens appearing on the market for official assets. He said Flop Labs is expected to launch an airdrop in the next few months and plans to launch the mainnet next year. According to previous public information, the project had previously planned a large-scale airdrop in the fourth quarter of 2026, and the target time for the main network Genesis block is the first quarter of 2027. Hayes previously announced that he will be leading Flop Labs, a project aimed at building economic infrastructure for AI agents, and FLOP will be designed as a native asset for AI agents to pay for resources such as computing power and storage.

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Next week's macro outlook: US and Iran sanctions, Jackson Hole, PCE, and Nvidia's earnings report are coming in four major variables. The gold sword points to $4,700

Comparing news, the global market will face multiple risk events next week. The escalation of US and Iran sanctions, Federal Reserve Chairman Walsh's debut at the Jackson Hole World Central Bank Annual Meeting, the release of PCE inflation data in the US for July, and the disclosure of Nvidia's earnings report may become core variables affecting risk asset trends. This week, the sharp rise in US long-term bond yields raised market concerns. After the Treasury expanded the scale of long-term US bond repurchases, the pressure on the bond market eased somewhat, but investors are still concerned about the US fiscal deficit, inflation, and developments in the Middle East. Driven by US debt sustainability concerns, the weakening dollar, and the Treasury Department's expansion of the US bond repurchase program, spot gold surpassed 4,600 US dollars/ounce this week, rising for the third consecutive week, and hit a high of around $4,632 on Friday. Analysts believe that if gold effectively breaks through $4,600, the next target may be at $4680 or even $4,700. Next week, the US-Iran relationship will be the primary focus of the market. US Treasury Secretary Bessent said that the Trump administration will announce new sanctions against Iran on Monday. Trump previously warned that any country providing support to Iran could face economic consequences. Meanwhile, transportation activities in the Strait of Hormuz continue to be blocked, and energy supply risks are driving crude oil to rise continuously. On the Federal Reserve side, the Jackson Hole Global Central Bank Annual Meeting will be held from August 27th to 29th, and Federal Reserve Chairman Walsh will deliver his first speech on August 28. The market is concerned about whether it will release future interest rate path signals and whether it can ease recent pressure on the US bond market. Currently, the market expects that the probability that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in September has declined, and traders will focus on Walsh's statement on the 2% inflation target, long-term interest rate, and monetary policy framework. In terms of economic data, the US core PCE price index for July will be released next week. This is the inflation indicator that the Federal Reserve is focusing on. The market expects core PCE to rise 0.2% month-on-month. If the data is higher than expected, it may weaken expectations of interest rate cuts and put pressure on gold; if it falls short, it may further drive the rise of precious metals. In addition, revised US second-quarter GDP values, durable goods orders, consumer confidence index, and revised non-farm payroll benchmark data will also be released one after another next week. On the corporate side, Nvidia's (NVDA) earnings report will be the focus of the US stock market. Technology stocks have recently been under pressure. The Nasdaq index fell about 2% this week, and the semiconductor sector fell by more than 4%. The market will focus on Nvidia's continued investment in AI infrastructure, the progress of Rubin chips, and the state of business in China. Analysts believe that if Nvidia's performance continues to strengthen AI growth expectations, it may become an important catalyst for the S&P 500 index to hit 8,000 points; if performance or guidance falls short of expectations, it may increase the pressure on technology stocks to adjust.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash hits the market: a week after launch, breaking growth records

Comparative News, AI News, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that in the first week of Gemini 3.7 Flash launch, it broke the previous Gemini model growth record and became Google's fastest growing Gemini model so far. However, Google did not announce the exact scale of growth and scale of use. This model really hits the cost-effective dessert zone. Artificial Analysis gave it a comprehensive intelligence index of 56. The high inference mode output speed was about 340 token/s, each evaluation task cost about 0.40 US dollars, and it entered the Pareto frontier of intelligence and completion time. The cost of the medium inference model was further reduced to $0.26, entering the Pareto frontier of intelligence and cost. In ARC Prize's independent verification, Gemini 3.7 Flash High Inference Mode received 84.6% in ARC-AGI-2 (Abstract Reasoning Benchmark), and cost only $0.25 per task. Google also quickly introduced 3.7 Flash into its products. Gemini App, Antigravity, and AI Studio are already connected, and Google Search is starting to use this model.

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