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Samsung in Talks to Invest in French AI Startup Mistral for Up to Nearly $1.1 Billion
TradingKey - On July 21 (ET), according to the Financial Times, Samsung Electronics is in talks with French AI company Mistral AI regarding a new round of financing, with plans to invest approximately €1 billion (equivalent to about $1.09 billion). This funding round could push Mistral AI's valuation to €20 billion (approximately $21.8 billion).
Wed, Jul 22

Tesla Cybercab Features SpaceX Starlink Technology, Robotaxi Expands to Florida, Q2 Earnings Out Today
TradingKey - On July 21 (ET), Tesla shares rose nearly 4% intraday before the gain narrowed to approximately 2.53% at the close, ending at $378.93. On the news front, Tesla revealed more technical details about its autonomous taxi, Cybercab: this purpose-built steer-by-wire vehicle has no steering wheel or pedals and will integrate SpaceX Starlink for navigation, customer service, and fleet management.
Wed, Jul 22

TSMC Rises Nearly 4% Premarket, Plans to Raise Wafer Prices 5%-10% in 2027
TradingKey - On July 21, ET, TSMC (TSM) pre-market shares rose nearly 4%. Market reports suggest the world's largest chip foundry has reached a final agreement with customers for a 5%-10% hike in wafer prices for 2027, with the increase covering both advanced and mature processes. As of press time, TSMC was trading at approximately $417.35 pre-market.
Tue, Jul 21

US Pre-Market: Memory Chips Extend Rally, SanDisk, Western Digital Rise Nearly 8%, SK Hynix, Micron Rise Over 6%
TradingKey - On July 21 Eastern Time, the three major U.S. stock index futures rose collectively in pre-market trading. As of press time, Nasdaq 100 Index futures were up 1.33%, S&P 500 Index futures rose 0.45%, and Dow Jones Index futures gained 0.31%.
Tue, Jul 21

Nvidia Discloses 9.3% Stake in Nebius, AI Cloud Provider Rises Over 6% Pre-Market
TradingKey - On Monday, July 20, Eastern Time, Nvidia (NVDA) filed a Schedule 13G with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, disclosing that it holds approximately 9.3% of the Class A ordinary shares of AI cloud service provider Nebius Group (NBIS), totaling 22,256,412 shares. Following the announcement, Nebius's pre-market share price rose by more than 7% on Tuesday. As of press time, Nebius was trading at approximately $194.45, up 6.48%.
Tue, Jul 21

Anthropic Settles Copyright Lawsuit for $1.5 Billion, Key IPO Legal Risks Largely Eliminated
TradingKey - On July 21, Eastern Time, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California officially approved a $1.5 billion final class action settlement agreement reached between AI giant Anthropic and a group of authors, officially ending the dispute over its use of pirated books to train the Claude large language model. The conclusion of this deal has set a new record for the highest copyright case settlement amount in U.S. history.
Tue, Jul 21

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8 Max Preview, Claims Performance Second Only to Anthropic Fable 5, Rises Over 3% Pre-Market
TradingKey - On July 19, Eastern Time, Alibaba announced on the social media platform X the launch of its flagship large model Qwen3.8 Max (preview version). With a parameter scale of 2.4 trillion, the company stated that its comprehensive capabilities rank "second only to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5" globally.
Mon, Jul 20

US Pre-Market: Three Major Index Futures Rise Collectively, Memory Chip Sector Rebounds Collectively, SK Hynix, Micron Rise Over 5%
TradingKey - On July 20 ET, during the U.S. pre-market session, futures for the three major stock indices rose collectively. As of press time, Nasdaq 100 index futures gained 1.00%, S&P 500 index futures rose 0.49%, and Dow Jones index futures were up 0.34%.
Mon, Jul 20

Storage Giants Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron Halt In-House CXL Commercialization, Chip Design Firms Like Marvell May Benefit
TradingKey - According to a report by South Korean media outlet ZDNET Korea on July 20 (ET), the world’s three major memory chip giants—Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix (SKHY), and Micron (MU)—have all recently halted their in-house development projects for CXL (Compute Express Link) controllers. All three companies have pivoted toward sourcing solutions from external fabless chip design firms.
Mon, Jul 20

Samsung Taylor Fab Evaluates Doubling Initial Capacity While US Consumer Electronics Unit Cuts Over 800 Jobs
TradingKey - On July 20, Eastern Time, Samsung Electronics is experiencing a rare business divergence, with chip business profits soaring while the consumer electronics division has fallen into losses.
Mon, Jul 20

Elon Musk Announces: 2-Trillion Parameter Grok 4.6 to Finish Training Next Week, May Surpass Kimi K3
TradingKey - On July 18, Eastern Time, Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX (SPCX) and Tesla (TSLA), revealed on the social media platform X that the training of Grok 4.6, the next-generation large model developed by his AI company xAI, has entered its final stages, with initial training expected to be completed next week.
Mon, Jul 20

SpaceX IPO Makes History, But Breaks Below Offer Price a Month Later, What Should Investors Watch in the Coming Months?
TradingKey - On June 12, 2026, Eastern Time, SpaceX (SPCX) listed on the Nasdaq at $135 per share with a base fundraising size of approximately $75 billion, setting a new global IPO record.
Sat, Jul 18

Sam Altman Takes Rare Responsibility: OpenAI Underperformed in Past Year, Promises ‘Strongest 12 Months Ever’
TradingKey - On July 17, Eastern Time, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on the social platform X, stating that the company's performance over the past 12 months fell short of expectations and taking primary responsibility for the outcome. Altman pledged that the coming year would be the best-performing period in the company's history since its founding. He also stated that the ultimate goal of AI is to empower more people with freedom, autonomy, and wealth, rather than driving user choices through fear.
Fri, Jul 17

US Premarket: Three Major Index Futures Fall Collectively, Memory Chips Continue Panic Selling, Netflix Drops Over 11% Premarket
TradingKey - On July 17 ET, during U.S. pre-market trading, the three major stock index futures slumped collectively. As of press time, Nasdaq 100 Index futures fell 1.67%, S&P 500 Index futures dropped 0.79%, and Dow Jones Index futures were down 0.52%.
Fri, Jul 17

Chinese AI Startup Moonshot AI Launches Kimi K3 Model, Saying It Rivals OpenAI and Anthropic
TradingKey - On July 16, Eastern Time, Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI officially released its next-generation large language model, Kimi K3, on Thursday. With a total scale of 2.8 trillion parameters, it is currently the world's largest open-source AI model.
Fri, Jul 17

SoftBank Group to Issue About $369 Million in Bonds, Masayoshi Son Increases AI Investment
TradingKey - During the Asian trading session on July 17, Japanese media reported that SoftBank Group plans to issue approximately 60 billion yen (about $369 million) in bonds to Japanese institutional investors this month to raise funds for AI-related investments.
Fri, Jul 17

Why IBM Earnings Tanked: AI Computing Hardware Is Squeezing Enterprise Software Budgets
TradingKey - On July 14, Eastern Time, IBM (IBM) shares plummeted more than 25%, marking its largest single-day decline in nearly 60 years. The century-old tech giant, positioned at the forefront of both AI and quantum computing, saw approximately $69 billion in market capitalization evaporate in a single day. Behind this crash, a structural change is being revealed: AI computing hardware is increasingly squeezing enterprise software budgets.
Fri, Jul 17

US June Retail Sales Rose 0.2% Meeting Expectations, Consumption Remains Resilient Excluding Gas Stations
TradingKey - On July 16 (ET), according to data released by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday, retail and food services sales in June rose 0.2% month-on-month, in line with market expectations and marking the fifth consecutive month of growth. The figure for May was revised upward to 1% from an initial reading of 0.9%.
Thu, Jul 16

US Pre-Market: TSMC Q2 Earnings Beat Estimates but Face Sell-Off, Memory Chips Extend Decline, SK Hynix, SanDisk Fall Over 7%
TradingKey - On July 16, Eastern Time, the three major US stock index futures were mixed in pre-market trading. As of press time, Nasdaq 100 index futures fell 0.91%, S&P 500 index futures declined 0.28%, and Dow Jones index futures rose 0.12%.
Thu, Jul 16

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Tokyo Visit: 30-Year Sega History, Partners With Toyota, Fanuc, Noetra, and Other Japanese Firms to Deploy Physical AI
TradingKey - Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang visited Tokyo this week, marking a reunion spanning 30 years and establishing a series of industrial collaborations that position Japan at the center of Nvidia's global physical AI strategy.
Thu, Jul 16



