US pre-market news roundup: Intel plans to invest €5 billion to expand its Irish factory; storage and semiconductor equipment sectors fall across the board in pre-market trading.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), since June 25, a whale address has transferred a total of 2,300 BTC (valued at $142 million) to Wintermute’s deposit address. The latest deposit of 800 BTC was made six hours ago. The funds originated from Paxos, and the ownership of the address has not been confirmed.

According to Bitget market data, South Korea’s KOSPI index rose 3.38% at the opening of trading, with Samsung Electronics up 4% and SK Hynix up 5%.

According to US tech media outlet WIRED citing insiders, the Trump administration’s new artificial intelligence (AI) guidelines will be revised to expand oversight of AI models. The White House announced this month it has developed an AI framework requiring US labs developing cutting-edge AI models to undergo federal security testing prior to public release. The framework has not been made public, and there are no reported plans to release it. Currently, the framework only covers so-called closed-source models developed by firms including Anthropic and OpenAI. However, a White House official revealed that the framework is expected to also include open-source models in the coming months. In short, once open-source models reach the same "cutting-edge" capability level as Anthropic’s Mythos-class models and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6, they will be incorporated into the framework and subject to pre-release testing.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, a crypto whale transferred approximately 1,770 BTC (valued at around $112.14 million) after remaining inactive for roughly two years. The holding, which was received from Gemini, was worth about $131.91 million at the time, resulting in an unrealized loss of $19.8 million.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, the as-expected slowdown in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has dampened expectations of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike. The three major U.S. stock indexes closed mixed: the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.04%, the Nasdaq rose 0.54%, and the S&P 500 gained 0.26%. Nvidia climbed 3.03% to close at $224.09, its highest closing price since June 2. Overnight in pre-market trading, Goldman Sachs maintained its "Buy" rating on Nvidia with a $285 target price. SpaceX jumped 9.65% as the company announced the launch of Grok 4.6 during the session. AI-related stocks surged across sectors: In the memory chip segment, SK Hynix rose over 9%, SanDisk gained more than 5%, Western Digital advanced over 3%, Seagate climbed over 7%, and Micron Technology rose over 4%. For optical communications and photonics products, Lumentum surged over 13%, Coherent gained more than 8%, and Corning rose over 5%. In the semiconductor equipment space, Applied Materials climbed over 4%, Lam Research advanced over 4%, and KLA rose over 3%. Among next-generation AI cloud service providers, Nebius jumped over 34% and CoreWeave surged more than 19%. Turning to the Middle East situation: Former U.S. President Trump stated that the U.S. has full control over the Strait of Hormuz. A spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard responded that if Iran faces another threat, hundreds of thousands of miles of energy transmission lines, thousands of power plants, all U.S. and non-U.S. facilities, and even global infrastructure connected to the internet will be targeted. According to HTX market data, Bitcoin edged down 0.19% in the past 24 hours, trading at $63,423.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, BlackRock’s ETF address has cumulatively withdrawn 1,019.27 BTC (valued at approximately $64.64 million) and 301.77 ETH (valued at around $570,000) from Coinbase Prime over the past few hours.