Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
RESEARCH DepthWeave-KV cuts LLM cache memory by 8.3x without retraining
FUNDING EdVisorly closes $13.3M Series A for college transfer AI automation
INDUSTRY Imperial College Cuts Sensor Integration to One Month on Databricks
INDUSTRY Oregon Locks AI Data Centers Into 29.7% Rate Hike With 10-Year Contracts
MARKET Together AI launches Provisioned Throughput: reserved capacity for open models at 90% below Claude Opus list
CHIPS NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra matches closed-model performance at 10x lower cost via LangChain harness tuning
CHIPS Budget smartphone sales collapse 22% as memory costs hit 64% of BOM amid HBM supply crunch
CHIPS DeepSeek developing in-house inference chip to cut Nvidia, Huawei reliance
CHIPS SiPearl Rhea CPU enters bring-up; Europe's first HPC processor on track for end-2026
INDUSTRY $3.5B VC2 Order Validates SambaNova's Bet Against GPU-Centric AI
MARKET Waymo Begins Driverless Operations in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa, Denver
INDUSTRY SkyPilot and Hugging Face eliminate cloud egress costs with unified storage layer
MARKET Oregon utility raises data center rates 29.7% under POWER Act; residential bills cut 1.3%
FUNDING Gradium voice AI startup extends seed to $100M+ with $30M NVIDIA-backed tranche
FUNDING SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation; JPMorganChase deploys SN50 for on-prem AI inference
FUNDING Blue Origin closes first outside funding round at $130B valuation; raises $10B led by Coatue
BREAKING OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna publicly after ending government preview limits
MARKET Anthropic revenue hits $30B ARR, overtakes OpenAI at $25B; enterprise focus drives efficiency gap
MARKET SK Hynix launches $28B Nasdaq IPO; HBM supplier pricing Friday as second-largest offering ever
BREAKING Meta launches Muse Image, native AI image model to reduce third-party dependence
FUNDING SK Hynix launches $28B Nasdaq IPO; second-largest after SpaceX, proceeds to fund South Korea fab expansion
CHIPS South Korea's $880B fab megacluster faces critical power shortage: needs 15–16 GW, has only 1.9 GW local supply
MARKET Samsung chip profit surges but stock tumbles 8% as AI demand concerns override earnings beat
INDUSTRY Barracuda Uses Databricks Genie to Cut Analyst Workload
MARKET SpaceX Colossus lands $26B in multi-year GPU contracts from Google, Anthropic; TSMC ships first US-made Blackwell
CHIPS Longsys posts 61,800% profit jump as AI memory demand crushes DRAM/NAND supply
MARKET Samsung's 19x profit surge fails to satisfy; chip stocks tumble on AI sustainability fears
POLICY Arvind Raman sworn in as NIST director; signals focus on AI standards, semiconductors
INDUSTRY Azure Foundry Unifies Open and Frontier Model Inference Under Single Endpoint
BREAKING Microsoft brings 3M+ Hugging Face open models to Foundry Managed Compute with weekly refresh
CHIPS NVIDIA launches Vera CPU for agentic AI, claims 1.8x sustained per-core performance over x86
CHIPS Intel Nova Lake officially confirmed with AVX-512 on both P-cores and E-cores
CHIPS Micron breaks ground on $9.3B Hiroshima HBM fab expansion; Japan subsidizes $3.2B
POLICY Federal Efficiency Mandates Could Standardize AI Accelerator Testing
MARKET Amazon raises $25B in bond sale for AI capex; projects $200B spending in 2026 INDUSTRY UK Cuts Data Center Approvals to 12 Months, Saves $1.3B per Project
MARKET Consumer GPU Prices Hit 50% Premium on H1 2026 Memory Crunch; VRAM Now 80% of BOM
MARKET Apple Supplier Luxshare Prices Hong Kong IPO at $3.1B, Diversifying Beyond Apple
FUNDING Edge AI chip maker Syntiant files for Nasdaq IPO; targets always-on device inference
MARKET U.S. Manufacturing PMI 53.3% in June; 8th month of production growth, headcount stabilizing