Canada's finance minister met today with provincial and territorial counterparts and CEOs of major financial institutions and said they are united and committed to protecting Canada, its workers, industries and sovereignty.

YONHAP: SK Hynix's union rejected a preliminary wage agreement with management; 50.08% of members voted against. Union leadership had concluded the deal with management before submitting it to a membership vote.

CSC Financial research note: OpenAI will cut GPT-5.6SolAPI prices by over 20% on Aug 21, reducing high-performance model invocation costs and likely boosting Agent, code-generation and other high‑token use cases, sustaining inference-side compute demand. Alibaba’s latest quarterly AI Cloud and Compute Services revenue was about 48.4 bln yuan, up 45% YoY; AI-related product revenue has logged triple-digit growth for 12 consecutive quarters, signalling faster commercialisation of AI demand. CSC remains positive on compute-power chain beneficiaries: optical modules, servers, liquid cooling and cloud services.