Pre-Market News Overview for U.S. Stocks: OpenAI Commits to Large-Scale Deployment of NVIDIA Computing Infrastructure, Google Prepares First AUD Bond Issuance, Morgan Stanley Says Open-Source Models May Erode Cloud Providers' Profits

BlockBeats News, August 17: Key pre-market news for U.S. stocks is as follows: 1. Futures for the three major stock indices showed mixed movements. Dow Jones Index futures fell 0.35%, S&P 500 Index futures rose 0.02%, and Nasdaq 100 Index futures rose 0.28%. 2. OpenAI has committed to large-scale deployment of NVIDIA computing infrastructure by 2030. 3. NVIDIA will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a subsidiary of SoftBank, which will sign a 20-year data center leasing agreement with OpenAI. 4. U.S. storage sector stocks saw broad pre-market gains, with Kioxia ADR rising over 17%, and SK Hynix and SanDisk both up more than 3%. 5. U.S. AI chip company Groq has completed a $350 million financing round, valuing the company at $3.5 billion. The round was led by Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive, with participation from NVIDIA. 6. OpenAI has undergone five personnel restructurings this year, with frequent executive reshuffles intensifying internal turmoil. Sources familiar with the company’s plans revealed that OpenAI’s IPO, originally scheduled for this year, is now likely to be postponed to next year. 7. Global family offices have heavily invested in SpaceX, totaling $3.8 billion. The Hyatt hotel heirs have invested $1.8 billion, with the investments made just weeks after SpaceX’s listing. 8. Google has hired banks to prepare for its first AUD bond issuance, considering 3-year, 5-year, 10-year, and 20-year bonds, aiming to raise approximately AUD 5 billion (around USD 3.6 billion). 9. Trump reiterated that Iran cannot possess nuclear weapons and confirmed the existence of secret communication channels between him and officials from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. 10. Bitcoin mining company HIVE Digital has signed a five-year $350 million AI cloud computing contract, accelerating its transition to GPU cloud services. 11. Morgan Stanley stated that the entry of cost-effective open-source models is driving token prices downward and pushing AI services toward "commoditization." This may lead to the bankruptcy of computing power tenants and erosion of cloud providers' profits.