BlockBeats News, August 17th, a summary of key pre-market news in the US stock market:

1. Futures of the three major stock indexes are mixed. Dow Jones futures are down 0.35%, S&P 500 futures are up 0.02%, Nasdaq 100 futures are up 0.28%.

2. OpenAI commits to deploying NVIDIA computing infrastructure at scale by 2030.

3. NVIDIA to invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a SoftBank subsidiary, which will sign a 20-year data center lease agreement with OpenAI.

4. Pre-market rally in the US stock storage sector, with Kioxia ADR up over 17%, SK Hynix and SanDisk up over 3%.

5. US AI chip company Groq has raised $350 million, with a valuation of $3.5 billion. This round of financing was led by Dallas-based investment firm Disruptive, with participation from NVIDIA.

6. OpenAI has undergone five personnel reorganizations this year, with frequent executive reshuffling intensifying internal turmoil. According to insiders familiar with the company's plans, OpenAI's IPO was originally scheduled for this year but is now likely to be postponed until next year.

7. Global family offices are heavily investing in SpaceX, with a total of $3.8 billion. The heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune has invested $1.8 billion, with the investments made just weeks after SpaceX went public.

8. Google has hired a bank to prepare for its inaugural Australian dollar bond issuance, considering issuing 3-year, 5-year, 10-year, and 20-year bonds, aiming to raise around AUD 5 billion (approximately $3.6 billion).

9. Trump reiterates that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons and confirms the existence of a secret communication channel with an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official in Iran.

10. Bitcoin mining firm HIVE Digital signs a five-year $350 million AI cloud computing contract to accelerate its transition to GPU cloud services.

11. Morgan Stanley stated that the influx of cost-effective open-source models has led to a continued decline in token prices, driving AI services towards "commoditization." This may lead to hash renters going out of business, cloud provider profits being eroded, among other situations.