Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
CHIPS Intel 18A yields hit 85%, secures design wins from AMD, NVIDIA, OpenAI as TSMC capacity crunch widens foundry market
BREAKING Meta cuts ads serving p99 latency 28% with custom kernel scheduler built on sched_ext; 3.3MW power savings
MARKET SK Hynix raises $26.5B in record Nasdaq IPO; CEO warns HBM shortage will extend beyond 2030
FUNDING Chai Discovery raises $400M Series C at $3.8B valuation; AI drug discovery reaches pharma scale
FUNDING Motorola acquires D-Fend for $1.5B to build end-to-end counter-drone stack amid Safer Skies Act expansion
MARKET SK Hynix shares surge 13% on softer inflation, renewed AI memory demand strength
CHIPS TSMC breaks ground on Phase II Chiayi advanced packaging plants; CoWoS capacity to grow 80%+ through 2027
MARKET ASML raises full-year guidance again on AI chip demand; expects €43–45B revenue, gross margin to 54–56%
RESEARCH Android Agent Framework Cuts Mobile Task Time by 95 Percent
INDUSTRY ARD Standard Cuts Agent Context by 88.7%, Yet Adoption Remains Minimal
FUNDING H1 2026 global VC hits $412.7B, 86% to AI; investors bet on inference chip wars
RESEARCH E3 Method Cuts LLM Agent Token Use by 91% on Code Edits
RESEARCH Researcher exposes systemic LLM jailbreaks across OpenAI, Google, Meta; obtains nuke/bioweapon details with simple prompting
RESEARCH TerraZero Tops InterPlan Benchmark Without Human Data
RESEARCH LLM Judges Reverse 85% of Verdicts When Given Reference Answers
MARKET SK Hynix shares surge 11% as Asia chip rally bounces back from sell-off
FUNDING NinjaOne raises $400M Series C extension at $12.3B valuation; achieves profitability on 70% YoY growth
MARKET OpenAI Codex Hits 8M Users in 5 Days Post–GPT-5.6; Forced to Reset Usage Caps
MARKET IBM Q2 Miss: Clients Rush Memory, Delay Software Deals as AI Scarcity Spreads
MARKET IBM stock tanks 25% on Q2 miss; corporate IT budgets shifting from software to AI security
RESEARCH Simon Willison reverse-engineers Codex Desktop's animated pet feature — gpt-image-2 generates chroma-keyed sprite sheets under the hood
CHIPS Anthropic in talks with Samsung to design custom AI chip; plans October S-1 filing
FUNDING DeepSeek in advanced talks for Series B at $71B valuation; AI agents drive data center capex
MARKET IBM stock craters 25% on Q2 revenue miss; customer capex shifted to AI hardware
BREAKING 26 Meta employees sue over AI-assisted layoff discrimination targeting workers on medical leave
CHIPS ZTE gets US approval to buy NVIDIA H200 chips; Kingsoft cleared for AMD equivalents
MARKET OpenAI Codex hits 5M weekly users, passes Anthropic's Claude Code as scaling tool
FUNDING Dream raises $260M at $3B valuation; sovereign AI for government defense amid AI-era cyber threats
MARKET Cyber stocks surge on AI paranoia; IBM CEO flags Anthropic's Mythos as a top spending concern
FUNDING Israeli startup Dream raises $260M at $3B for sovereign AI cyber defense
FUNDING NinjaOne closes $400M Series C extension at $12.3B valuation
POLICY New York enacts first statewide AI data center ban for 1 year
INDUSTRY H200 Exports to China Stall as Beijing and Washington Create Double Choke
MARKET U.S. confirms small Nvidia H200 shipments to China, licenses restart
BREAKING Apple in talks with PrismML on iPhone AI model compression
CHIPS EDA market hits $5.7B in Q1 2026 (12.7% growth); APAC leads 17.7% YoY as hyperscalers build in-house
CHIPS NVIDIA Nemotron open models deliver 20x cheaper inference than frontier; Harvey, Glean ship post-trained agents
MARKET IBM warns software spending shift to infrastructure; Cramer backs Intel foundry over Arm licensees
MARKET Open-weight models now 10x cheaper than frontier APIs, closing capability gap to 7 months
POLICY Q-Day countdown: NIST finalizes three post-quantum crypto standards; organizations must test by 2030