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[Overview of U.S. stock market pre-market news: Google is accelerating TPU iteration; Musk predicts that the world will exceed 1 billion humanoid robots in 10 years; Indonesia's largest nickel industrial park may reduce production by as much as 40%] On September 2, the financial news of the U.S. stock market that investors need to focus on is as follows: 1. The three major U.S. stock index futures rose in the short term and basically recovered their previous losses. Dow Jones futures rose 0.24%, S&P 500 futures rose 0.09%, and Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.06%. On the news, Williams, the "third in command of the Federal Reserve", said that inflation is on a slow downward trend and interest rates are at a good level. 2. International oil prices turned from rising to falling. WTI crude oil futures prices fell 0.71% to US$89.580/barrel; Brent crude oil futures prices fell 0.47% to US$94.203/barrel. 3. International gold and silver spot prices turned from falling to rising. Spot gold prices rose 0.16% to US$4,335.17 per ounce; spot silver prices rose 0.62% to US$64.46 per ounce. 4. The three major European stock indexes narrowed their losses. Britain's FTSE 100 index fell 0.29%, France's CAC40 index fell 0.08%, and Germany's DAX30 index fell 0.41%. 5. Vahdat, head of Google's AI infrastructure, said that Google is accelerating the development and iteration of its customized AI chip TPU, shortening the chip update cycle from the original two years to launching two models per year, in order to maintain its leading position in the AI ​​competition. 6. Musk predicted that the Grok 4.7 model will be released in 10 days. The Grok 4.7 model parameter size reached 2.1 trillion, an increase of 40% compared to Grok 4.6 (1.5 trillion). 7. Musk said that it is estimated that the number of humanoid robots will exceed 1 billion in the next 10 years. The output of each robot will be at least five times that of human workers, and the productivity will be higher than the total human productivity in the world. 8. Li Feifei’s startup World Labs released “the world’s first multi-modal world model” Atlas, claiming that the model can generate images and video frames with pixel-level precise camera control and reconstruct them in 3D. 9. NASA announced that it has awarded the Mars communication network development contract to Blue Origin to provide reliable high-bandwidth communication and navigation services for its Mars mission. The contract could be worth as much as $700 million. 10. SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won said that SK Hynix is ​​considering joint production with Japanese semiconductor giant Kioxia Holdings. 11. Deutsche Bank pointed out that optical network business hardware companies are expected to be the biggest winners in the AI ​​era. The bank listed Coherent and Lumentum, which produce optical components and lasers for connecting data centers, as the "most confident" investment targets. 12. Affected by the drought caused by the El Niño phenomenon, the water supply to the smelter in Indonesia's largest nickel industrial park has been restricted, and the park may have to cut production by as much as 40%.
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[Understand the 2026 interim report in one picture: Over 70% of stocks achieved profits in the first half of the year, with semiconductors and energy metals leading the performance growth] August 31, August 31, the disclosure of the A-share 2026 interim report officially came to an end. Data show that in the first half of the year, A-share listed companies achieved a total net profit attributable to their parent companies of 3.58 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.4%; 74.5% of companies achieved profitability, of which 43.4% of profitable companies saw positive year-on-year net profit growth. From an industry perspective, 19 of the 31 Shenwan first-level industries achieved year-on-year growth in net profit attributable to the parent company, accounting for approximately 61.3%. The electronics sector has the most significant growth rate and is the only first-tier industry that has doubled in growth; non-ferrous metals, non-bank finance and other industries also rank among the top in terms of growth. Further sinking into the secondary subdivisions (excluding the factors of turning losses into profits), the semiconductor and energy metal sectors have outstanding profit growth rates, with year-on-year increases of more than 500%; marine equipment, other electronics and diversified financial sectors also achieved more than doubled growth. At the individual stock level, after excluding the loss-turning factors, a total of 56 stocks had a net profit attributable to the parent company with a year-on-year growth rate of more than 1,000%. Among them, three stocks, Longsys, Okoyi and Jiangtian Chemical, have grown more than 100 times. (Zi Long)