Armed police join rescue efforts after magnitude-6.3 earthquake in Qinghai
Sources: a new AI lab founded by Junyang Lin, former lead of Alibaba's Qwen models, has raised several hundred million dollars at a ~$2B post-money valuation (The Information)
Dealogic: investors have poured $58B across 42 data center deals YTD; Oxford Economics says ~850 data centers worth some $7T are under construction globally (Financial Times)
Republicans are still really worried about beating Jon Ossoff
Sources: Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu targets a Hong Kong IPO as early as year-end at a $70B+ valuation, up from $50B in recent private secondary trades (Wall Street Journal)
Kazakhstan signs accords with Firebird on Nvidia-related computing projects that could bring up to $10B in investment, as it seeks to build a Data Center Valley (Bloomberg)
'Stare at a wall': UK teens react to social media ban for under-16s #worldnow
Cyber dragon boats light up the night in south China #coolchina
Chinese FM meets with Nepalese counterpart in Beijing
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