Pavel Durov launched Gram Wallet in Telegram. It is currently available to a limited group, with a gradual rollout to over one billion users promised over the next two weeks.
Validators approved the smart contract, so future wallet updates will not require painful migrations. GRAM briefly rose 10%.
On August 18th, Marvell received Google’s warrant for 58,970,907 shares. Most vests in 240 tranches tied to $500 million in custom-product revenue, implying a $120 billion ceiling, not a purchase commitment.
Thirteen days later, Alphabet joined NVIDIA in MediaTek’s $3.9 billion convertible bond. NVIDIA took $3.5 billion, and both had named MediaTek an NVLink Fusion adopter before investing.
Marvell and MediaTek support NVLink Fusion, UALink and UEC. The deals disclose no shipments, royalties or margins.
If custom silicon uses NVIDIA’s fabric, CPUs and networking, NVIDIA may lose less. If UALink wins, designers still get paid. The question is whether fabric revenue outweighs lost die sales.
Cuba's president says Cuba isn’t afraid of a U.S. attack and is "getting ready so that we're not surprised or defeated," adding, Cubans are willing to die for "the revolution" and "fight to the very last drop of blood," to defend their rights,independence and sovereignty."
Global central bank gold holdings have reached their highest level this century as institutions continue buying gold to hedge against inflation, currency weakness, and geopolitical risks.