BlockBeats News, August 13, a summary of important pre-market news in the U.S. stock market:

1. According to BIT (bit.com) market data, the futures of the three major U.S. stock indexes showed moderate gains. The Dow Jones futures rose by 0.30%, S&P 500 futures rose by 0.19%, and Nasdaq 100 futures rose by 0.03%.

2. SpaceXAI officially launched Grok 4.6, focusing on enhancing the long-term operation capabilities of intelligent agents, as well as more sophisticated interactive and visual workspace performance.

3. "Optical Communication Giant" Coherent's performance guidance significantly exceeded market expectations. In Q4, revenue was $2.05 billion, a 34% year-on-year growth, higher than the expected $1.98-2.02 billion; Non-GAAP EPS was $1.74, surpassing the expected $1.62-1.65. Q1 revenue is expected to be $2.20-2.40 billion, higher than the expected $2.13 billion, with an adjusted EPS forecast of $1.85-2.05, exceeding the expected $1.77.

4. Cisco's 2027 fiscal year sales guidance exceeded market expectations. Q4 revenue was $17.3 billion, with market estimates at $16.85 billion. Cisco expects adjusted EPS for FY 2027 to be $5.05 to $5.11, surpassing the market expectation of $4.84. In Q4, Cisco received $4 billion in AI orders from hyper-scale cloud providers.

5. Neocloud company Nebius (NBIS) fell 2.7% in pre-market trading after a significant 34.14% surge yesterday, marking the largest increase since September last year.

6. The White House plans to expand AI regulation, with open-source models possibly included in the testing framework. The Trump administration's new AI guidelines will be revised, and under the new framework, advanced AI models developed by U.S. labs will undergo security testing by the federal government before public release.

7. Accelerated expansion of U.S. federal spending coupled with declining revenue has led to a continuous deterioration of the U.S. fiscal situation. Debt interest payments for this fiscal year have already exceeded $1 trillion. The July budget deficit reached $432 billion, setting a new historical high for the same period in previous years, mainly driven by a sharp rise in federal Medicare expenditures and continued increase in public debt interest costs. In the first 10 months of FY 2026, the budget deficit has accumulated to $1.8 trillion.

8. AI chip company Cerebras plunged 16% in pre-market trading. The company's Q2 revenue was $180.1 million, below market expectations. The company raised its full-year revenue guidance to a maximum of $890 million.

9. Citigroup raises full-year earnings forecast for S&P 500 constituents and maintains year-end target of 8100 points.

10. Apple is reportedly in discussions with multiple publishers for a multi-year content licensing agreement to allow the AI version of Siri to access the latest news and information. The licensing fees are estimated to reach hundreds of millions of dollars.

11. Several Anthropic investors have indicated that Anthropic is expected to IPO in October with a valuation of $2 trillion or more. If this projection holds true, this astonishing valuation will surpass SpaceX, making it the largest IPO in history.

12. Bank of America has raised its 2030 total addressable market (TAM) for server CPUs to over $210 billion. Bank of America highlights that the CPU-to-GPU ratio is expected to approach 1:1 in the era of AI-powered agents.