On August 22, the top 20 trading volumes in the US stock market: Moderna rose 8.86% as mRNA cancer drug vaccine breakthroughs boosted the healthcare sector

On Friday, NVIDIA, ranked third in trading volume on the U.S. stock market, closed down 0.98%, with a trading volume of $21.271 billion.

According to informed sources, NVIDIA has agreed to pay $6 billion for the licensing of the Poolside artificial intelligence (AI) model and will extend job offers to over 100 employees.

Additionally, data center power developer Cloverleaf Infrastructure announced a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to jointly advance the construction of digital infrastructure in the United States. As part of the collaboration, NVIDIA will make a minority equity investment in Cloverleaf.

Tesla, ranked fourth, closed up 5.14%, with a trading volume of $21.268 billion.

The Nevada Department of Transportation unanimously approved three permits on Thursday local time, allowing Tesla to launch commercial robotaxi services in Clark County, where Las Vegas is located. Tesla has been approved to deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis.

Furthermore, according to an announcement from the State Administration for Market Regulation, Tesla has initiated two recalls. The first recall, numbered S2026M0098V and S2026M0099V, involves domestic and imported Model 3, Model Y, Model X, and Model S vehicles, totaling 2.97 million units, accounting for nearly 70% of this recall.

Reports indicate that Tesla plans to open its first autonomous taxi, Cybercab, which has no steering wheel or pedals, for public trial rides at the end of this month and will officially connect to the Robotaxi autonomous taxi network in Austin, Texas.

Micron, ranked fifth, closed down 0.77%, with a trading volume of $21.089 billion.

Apple, ranked sixth, closed down 0.63%, with a trading volume of $14.662 billion.

Apple will cut employees responsible for the Siri digital assistant and Vision Pro headset teams. As part of this adjustment, Apple has essentially shut down the Vision Pro gaming team and reduced the size of the team responsible for producing immersive video content for Vision Pro. This round of layoffs will affect over 200 people, with about 100 positions cut from the Vision Pro department and 100 positions from the Siri and software teams.

Moderna, ranked seventh, closed up 8.86%, with a trading volume of $12.904 billion.

Moderna announced that its personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma skin cancer, developed in collaboration with Merck, has met its primary endpoint in a large Phase 3 clinical trial.

SanDisk, ranked eighth, closed down 0.28%, with a trading volume of $12.03 billion.

Microsoft, ranked ninth, closed up 0.43%, with a trading volume of $10.863 billion.

SpaceX, ranked tenth, closed up 2.22%, with a trading volume of $10.614 billion Elon Musk responded on Thursday to a post shared by a user about the U.S. government's plan to achieve 1,000 rocket launches per year by 2030, stating that SpaceX's goal is "to achieve more than 30 Starship launches per day by 2030, which translates to about 10,000 launches annually."

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