International oil prices rise! Houthis launch "retaliatory strikes" against Saudi Arabia; multinational coalition vows counterattack

Tensions in the Middle East have escalated once again, posing a severe threat to the security of Saudi Arabia's energy supply. On September 8, Yemen's Houthi rebels launched attacks on multiple cities in southern Saudi Arabia, igniting fires at several energy facilities and forcing partial operational suspensions, which subsequently drove international oil prices sharply higher, with Brent crude approaching the $100 threshold. According to CCTV International News, the Saudi Ministry of Energy confirmed that civilian and economic infrastructure in Abha, Khamis Mushait, Najran, and Jizan had been attacked, resulting in over 70 injuries. Relevant authorities are working to ensure facility safety and operational continuity. A spokesperson for the Houthi group stated on the same day that the organization would announce an expansion of operations deep into Saudi territory.

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Apple Rarely Signs 3-5 Year NAND Long-Term Contracts, Possibly Without Price Caps; AI Demand Squeezes Capacity, Shifting Bargaining Power in Memory Market

Apple is negotiating a three- to five-year long-term contract for NAND flash memory with Kioxia, potentially without a price cap. This marks a shift in its procurement strategy from "price suppression + multi-sourcing" to "volume locking + long-term contracts." The transition stems from intense competition among AI data center clients for storage capacity, compelling Apple to prioritize supply security. Pricing power in the memory chip market is shifting from buyers to sellers, and the duration of this memory cycle may exceed traditional market expectations.

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Shift in Data Center Bargaining Power: Cloud Providers Once Held the Upper Hand, but Now "CoreWeaves" Are Taking a Firmer Stance

The dominant position of cloud computing giants in AI data center leasing negotiations is weakening. Eager to deploy NVIDIA servers, cloud providers such as Microsoft have granted operators like CoreWeave greater bargaining leverage. This has led to more lenient Service Level Agreement (SLA) terms and stricter payment demands, with NVIDIA and AMD even entering the bidding process to provide credit guarantees for customers.

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UN Issues Major Warning on AI: Potential “Existential” Threat to Humanity!

① UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned that advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity and called for the establishment of robust safety safeguards; ② Türk stated that the pace of frontier AI development outstrips the enhancement of safety measures, and he will write to major AI companies such as Meta and OpenAI to urge them to mitigate risks.

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$100 Invested In Alphabet 10 Years Ago Would Be Worth This Much Today

Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) has outperformed the market over the past 10 years by 10.28% on an annualized basis producing an average annual return of 23.98%. Currently, Alphabet has a market

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8 Health Care Stocks Whale Activity In Today's Session

This whale alert can help traders discover the next big trading opportunities.Whales are entities with large sums of money and we track their transactions here at Benzinga on our options activity

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