Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING Together AI closes $800M Series C at $8.3B; Aramco Ventures leads as open-model infra consolidates
POLICY Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, NVIDIA launch ARD spec for agent tool discovery and governance
CHIPS NVIDIA Blackwell GB300 NVL72 hits $0.123/million tokens, 35x cheaper than Hopper, 50x per-watt gain
RESEARCH Three Hours on $329 GPU Replaces Thousands of Hours of NAS Training
MARKET Chamath: AI token costs double every 45 days; productivity gains plateau at 5% max
CHIPS China chip exports surge 96% YoY to $177B in H1 2026, driven by memory price boom
POLICY Demis Hassabis calls for U.S.-led AI standards body to test frontier models
BREAKING Databricks showcases Lakebase as high-velocity stateful memory for agentic AI workflows
RESEARCH Prime Intellect releases Verifiers v1; DAG trace format eliminates quadratic data growth in agentic RL
FUNDING TerraFirma closes $115M for remote-operated construction; SpaceX, Anduril among backers
STARTUPS Vimag Labs Raises $5M to Break China's Rare-Earth Motor Monopoly
CHIPS Intel invests €5B in Ireland fab to boost Xeon 6, Intel 3 production
POLICY New York enacts one-year data center moratorium for projects over 50 megawatts; first US state ban
FUNDING Cyera raises $600M at $12B valuation on AI agent security infrastructure play
FUNDING Cyera Raises $600M at $12B Valuation, Quadrupling Worth in 18 Months on AI Security Demand
INDUSTRY Google's Genkit Agents API Brings Long-Running Workflows to Application Servers
CHIPS NVIDIA halves authorized customer list in Asia to combat chip smuggling into China
POLICY Hassabis Sets AGI Timeline to 2029, Proposes Compute-Based Governance
CHIPS AMD Zen 6 debut July 22–23 with EPYC Venice; 2nm, 256-core, 70% perf boost
BREAKING OpenAI Codex reaches 7 million active users; temporarily removes 5-hour usage cap
FUNDING Secondary markets open late-stage private equity to retail: WHOOP secondary case study
CHIPS Researchers develop programmable thermal material that remembers state without power
FUNDING OpenAI acquires Northslope to expand forward-deployed AI engineering for enterprise customers
CHIPS Meta starts Iris custom AI chip production in September; plans 14-gigawatt datacenter by 2027
POLICY Spain Mobilizes €14.25B for Domestic AI Chip Roadmap, Still Years From Production
MARKET TSMC Q2 revenue beats at $39.6B (+36% YoY); June sales surged 68% signaling sustained AI demand
MARKET SK Hynix drops 15% in Seoul after Nasdaq IPO; chip sector rout triggered by memory cost concerns
CHIPS Intel invests €5 billion in Ireland fab to scale Xeon production for AI data centers
MARKET Codex hits 6M active users in 7 months; OpenAI removes rate limits to fuel coding agent adoption
BREAKING Nokia, NestAI deploy integrated AI-enabled defense capabilities for denied environments
CHIPS UMC starts mass production of silicon photonics in Singapore for AI data centers
MARKET SK Hynix Nasdaq debut raises $26.5B; HBM vendor signals AI memory scarcity through 2030
RESEARCH Apple's MM-ToolSandBox Reveals Why Half of Frontier AI Agents Fail on Visual Tasks
FUNDING Munich tax startup Skalar raises €12M seed from Lakestar, Forthright, others; AI-first tax automation
RESEARCH Activation-Level Fixes Outperform Prompt Edits for Biased LLM Judges
BREAKING NestAI releases defense models for drone autonomy; Europe targets military tech sovereignty
RESEARCH ZoRRO Matches Deep Learning CTR at 600× Speed
INDUSTRY Thoughtworks Cuts Migration Time 66% With AI Guardrails
MARKET Korean leveraged chip ETF crashes 45% in three months, retail investors face steep losses
INDUSTRY Harness Cuts Agent Breach Exposure From 709 Secrets to 33