Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
POLICY FCC expands submarine cable licensing to SLTE; shields U.S. tech giants, blocks Chinese access
BREAKING MCP 2026-07-28 spec removes sessions, adds OAuth hardening; ships July 28 with breaking changes
BREAKING Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5: near-Fable performance at half the price, effort toggle for cost control
MARKET CME launches single-stock futures on 50+ U.S. names including Nvidia, Apple, SpaceX starting July 27
MARKET Alphabet pushes capex to $205B for AI, hits negative free cash flow for first time since IPO
CHIPS CXMT DRAM enters consumer market but undercuts neither Samsung nor SK hynix on price; subsidy effects muted
MARKET Big Tech earnings hit by AI spending concerns; Nasdaq drops 2% as Alphabet, Tesla report cash burn
MARKET Alphabet raises 2026 CapEx guidance to $205B amid AI infrastructure crunch—stock falls despite cloud beat
CHIPS CXMT IPO launches July 27 at $8.6B; Chinese DRAM maker prices above Samsung despite overcapacity fears
CHIPS Zeiss expands Oberkochen site as ASML's EUV bottleneck lingers
POLICY FCC finalizes submarine cable security rules with SLTE licensing and foreign-adversary controls
FUNDING Atoms closes $1.7B funding led by Andreessen Horowitz; Ben Horowitz joins board
BREAKING DeepSeek pauses second fundraising round after viral comments on US-China AI competition
FUNDING Fireworks AI raises $1.5B Series D at $17.5B valuation; enterprise AI inference surpasses $1B ARR
CHIPS Anthropic in early talks to run Claude inference on Microsoft Maia 200 custom silicon via Azure
RESEARCH Ruff 0.16.0 expands default lint rules 7× — and Astral's new OpenAI home makes it a natural AI-agent pairing
MARKET Wall Street raises bar on AI capex: Alphabet falls 7% despite strong growth, CFO warning incoming
RESEARCH DAC 2026: Microsoft Artour Levin keynotes EDA bottlenecks at AI accelerator scale; hardware-software boundaries become the pain point
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