Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING Sila raises $300M for Moses Lake silicon anode plant; targets 250 GWh capacity to domicile US battery supply chain
CHIPS Hyundai Motor Group commits 50,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for AI factory; $3B physical AI investment in Korea
CHIPS Azure rolls out AMD Helios 72-GPU racks and 500-core Venice CPUs for AI inference; H2 2026 rollout
CHIPS NVIDIA Blackwell ramp delayed; GB200A rework uses single die for CoWoS-S packaging
MARKET NVIDIA H200 shipments to China begin; 700K inventory vs 2M+ chip orders for 2026
MARKET Microsoft discloses $190B 2026 capex plan; $25B attributed to chip price inflation
MARKET General Catalyst tops Y Combinator in Q2 fintech mega-rounds; $28.6B global fintech raised H1 2026
RESEARCH Google Achieves Record Quantum Error Rate Without Pausing Computation
MARKET NAVER-NVIDIA Korea AI factory expands to 200MW; SK Group $500B partnership announced
RESEARCH Swapping Image and Text Order Shifts VLM Accuracy by 26 Points
CHIPS NVIDIA, SK Group announce $500B AI partnership; SK Telecom builds 2-gigawatt AI factory in South Korea
BREAKING AI root-cause analysis shifts from agent reasoning to deterministic context engineering
FUNDING Meshy closes $400M Series B for AI-generated 3D at $1.5B valuation; 12M users, 100M models
FUNDING Sila raises $300M to scale silicon-anode battery production; Moses Lake plant targets 100K+ EV capacity
POLICY White House accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic's Fable for Kimi K3; tech leaders defend open distillation
FUNDING General Compute closes $400M debt on inference chips; first deal with SambaNova ASICs as collateral
MARKET Big Tech's hidden AI debt hits $1.65T; off-balance-sheet commitments dwarf reported figures
RESEARCH Black Forest Labs FLUX 3: Multimodal Video + Audio + Action in One Model; Beats Seedance, Runway
RESEARCH Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 at $5/$25 per Mtok—near-Fable-5 coding at half Fable's price
POLICY Jensen Huang debuts on X with open-weight AI letter, backing models against Washington restriction
INDUSTRY Context Curation Solves AI Root Cause Analysis, Not Model Reasoning
CHIPS Intel Foundry Q2: $5.8B revenue, external customer mix still 5% of total
CHIPS Samsung locks $200B with Broadcom: HBM4 + 2nm foundry through 2030 for AI chips
BREAKING Moonshot AI halts Kimi K3 subscriptions as demand hits infrastructure limits amid U.S. chip export curbs
FUNDING Paper raises $34M Series A from Accel, ICONIQ for AI-native design platform
RESEARCH Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5: matches Fable on benchmarks, 50% cheaper, praised for coding
FUNDING Cathedral: DOGE alumni raise $160M for stealth AI military cybersecurity startup at $1.4B valuation
MARKET NVIDIA locks down SK Hynix HBM supply with $500B AI infrastructure deal
RESEARCH Poolside releases Laguna S 2.1, 118B open-weight model beating DeepSeek V4 Flash on agentic tasks
FUNDING Etched raises $300M Series C at $10.3B valuation, values inference chips above general training
MARKET SpaceX Starship Flight 13 deploys 20 Starlink V3 satellites post-IPO, stock down 43% from peak
FUNDING Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B; AI-native endpoint security for enterprise devices
FUNDING Sila raises $300M for silicon anode expansion; pivots beyond EV to AI, defense, robotics
MARKET Samsung launches RX robotics division; Korea pledges 312T won to Yeongnam AI hub
CHIPS Fortinet becomes Intel Foundry's first named external customer on Intel 4
INDUSTRY Intel's Foundry Fix Lags As Hyperscalers Hold Back Volume
MARKET Tesla Q2 free cash flow turns negative $1.1B as capex explodes 142% funding Robotaxi, Optimus, chip fab
MARKET BlackRock markets $12.3B bonds for Meta El Paso data center as AI debt fuels infrastructure buildout
MARKET Waymo launches standalone app in Atlanta, Austin as Uber exclusivity ends January 2028
INDUSTRY Airbus Picks Scaleway for EU-Only Aircraft Design and Manufacturing