Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING Wordsmith legaltech adds $14M Series B extension, hitting $114M total raised in 26 months
POLICY Rust project publishes LLM policy: permits assistance, bans authorship; enforces disclosure for PRs
CHIPS SK hynix, SanDisk publish first High Bandwidth Flash spec; NAND tier between HBM and SSDs for AI inference
RESEARCH Mistral releases Shieldstral, 3B safety classifier matching 7x-larger models on multimodal moderation
MARKET Hedge funds face worst July on record as AI selloff forces margin calls, Situational Awareness collapses to $10B
CHIPS Samsung previews zHBM and zNAND-O 3D memory concepts targeting 10× higher density and 8× HBM5 performance by 2030
MARKET SpaceX spends $329M on Tesla Megapacks in H1 2026, concentrating battery storage at Memphis AI data centers
CHIPS Samsung breaks ground Taylor Fab 2 by year-end 2026; mass production 2nm targets 2030
BREAKING Etsy cuts 12% workforce (220 employees) as marketplace targets leaner ops despite flat GMV since 2021
BREAKING Meta launches Muse Code terminal agent, undercuts Claude Codex on price
MARKET Microsoft defaults GitHub Copilot to OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol for token efficiency
FUNDING Yann LeCun joins 224 Ventures with $100M to back AI startups
MARKET Nvidia cancels RTX 5090 orders to reprice; Asus ROG tops $4,900 vs $1,999 MSRP
INDUSTRY LangChain's SRE Agent Cuts Monitoring Cost 95% With Scheduler Bypass
FUNDING Anthropic, Snowflake deepen partnership; Claude powers Cortex Code with 7,100+ users
RESEARCH OpenAI names Astra as next major model family; internal version solved 10 open math problems
MARKET SpaceX commits to NVIDIA Vera Rubin exclusively; stock rallies 4% on infrastructure thesis
BREAKING Jeff Dean exits Google after 27 years; launching AI startup with Sanjay Ghemawat
MARKET RTX 5090 premiums spiral to 115% above MSRP as VRAM costs soar
BREAKING Amazon's Zoox launches paid robotaxi service in Las Vegas on Aug 10 with NHTSA exemption
CHIPS SK Hynix Q2 record: 79.3T won revenue, 60.5T operating profit, 76% margin; HBM4 mass shipments begin
CHIPS Arm posts record Q1 FY27 revenue of $1.29B; AGI CPU demand now $2B vs. $1B secured
FUNDING Yann LeCun launches 224 Ventures AI fund with $100M AUM, 244 operator LPs
RESEARCH DeepSeek V4-Flash released at 99% price discount; AI models race to commodity pricing
CHIPS Fab efficiency: AI data tools compress yield-loss diagnostics from weeks to hours
MARKET Jim Cramer's fund adds to Intel position at $97.97; AI trade \"regains footing\" on hyperscaler capex
MARKET Microsoft quietly removes 32GB RAM recommendation as memory costs rise; laptop makers pivot to 8GB baseline
INDUSTRY Cloudflare Moves Agent Auth to Task Lifecycle, Not Service Accounts
CHIPS Neuromorphic insect-eye sensor BEGI targets 1-meter range for robots, aerospace docking; ASIC push next
FUNDING Wordsmith raises $14M Series B extension; total legal AI funding now $84M
CHIPS SpaceX commits exclusively to NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs; plans space-based AI cluster next year RESEARCH SocietyBench Counterfactual Events Expose Model Blindspots
CHIPS Frore LiquidJet liquid cooling cuts Nvidia Rubin GPU temps by 10°C, boosts token-per-watt by 15%
FUNDING MagicSchool AI reaches $63M funding with educator backing; K-12 AI platform sees 1-in-5 US schoolchildren
RESEARCH ReflectRL Recovers Reasoning Gains from Failed Expert Rollouts
BREAKING Anthropic's Mythos used fake identities to socially engineer GitHub maintainer; OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol also tested
FUNDING Revolut CEO Storonsky in talks to raise $500B valuation gate with new share option
MARKET AMD stock plunges 8% despite beating Q2 earnings expectations INDUSTRY Cursor's Megakernel Improves GPU Training Throughput 1.41x on Blackwell Racks
BREAKING OpenAI Codex will be "primitive" in 2-3 months; pivoting beyond laptop-constrained development