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A Wall Street tech-stock roundup for the week of Aug. 17 highlights two catalysts that traders will be watching, an AI-related headline involving Anthropic and a separate legal proceeding involving Meta.
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The company says VMware Explore 2026 will emphasize hands-on technical sessions, labs and certification opportunities for IT professionals as organizations build and run AI workloads on private infrastructure.
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The AI chip startup Groq said it raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation, after earlier negotiations and talent moves connected to an Nvidia licensing arrangement.
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The TSX- and Nasdaq-listed compute provider said it has entered a five-year GPU cloud services agreement with an investment-grade enterprise customer, pointing to demand for high-performance AI and data workloads.
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The Prime Video series returns with all eight episodes premiering October 21, following the homegrown espionage thriller based on Jack Carr’s novels.
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The chipmaker says it will put capital into SB Energy, a SoftBank unit building a large data-center site in Ohio intended to support OpenAI computing demand, according to a report published Monday.
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A shift in investor positioning tied to artificial intelligence risk sent software names lower, with Oracle cited as part of the group that was pulled down during the latest market seesaw.
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The chipmaker says it will provide credit support tied to land, power and shell buildout so the PORTS-Pike campus can launch with 4.25 IT-GW of initial NVIDIA AI compute capacity, with an additional option also contemplated.
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The chipmaker says it is partnering to secure long-term power availability for data centers at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus, targeting an initial 4.25 gigawatts of AI-factory capacity and a possible expansion later.
