BlockBeats News, September 3rd, a summary of key pre-market news on the US stock market:

1. The US initial jobless claims were slightly higher than expected, with 206,000 initial jobless claims recorded for the week ending August 29th, hitting a new high since the week ending August 15th. Market expectations were 205,000.

2. Federal Reserve Governor Waller stated that whether there will be a rate hike in September will largely depend on next week's August CPI. The market has reduced bets on a Fed rate hike, with the probability of a September rate hike currently at 60.4%.

3. NVIDIA has agreed to acquire the open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.93 billion to expand global developer and institutional access to AI. The acquisition transaction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027.

4. To overcome the memory bottleneck, Google is developing both software and hardware solutions, including dismantling decommissioned servers to recover reusable DDR4 components, in order to establish an internal recycling supply chain.

5. US stock index futures saw a short-term rally in pre-market trading. Dow Jones futures rose by 0.44%, S&P 500 futures rose by 0.19%, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose by 0.04%.

6. NVIDIA, together with interconnection service provider Equinix and the open-source model inference platform Together AI, has launched a distributed AI inference service planned to debut in the first quarter of 2027. This service aims to reduce data latency and the cost of migrating closed models to open source.

7. Micron Technology is reportedly exploring the development of high-durability NAND flash memory module solutions, researching how to bring NAND flash closer to the GPU to enhance I/O speed, bandwidth, and read speed.

8. A senior vice president at TSMC stated that TSMC's demand for chip manufacturing tools has nearly doubled since the end of last year, with quarterly equipment procurement estimates raised in July to about 1.9 times the forecast from December last year.

9. Broadcom has announced its goal to achieve 1.3 exaflops of compute power deployment with the OpenAI collaborative-developed Jalapeño chip by 2027. The long-term deployable compute power scale is expected to exceed 5 exaflops.

10. Alliance Consulting estimates that the price increase for Apple's new devices will be controlled between 10% and 20%. The initial price range for the first foldable screen iPhone Fold series is estimated to be between $2,099 and $2,299.