Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING UK expands Global Talent visa to 100+ AI, quantum companies; fast-track for researchers
CHIPS GlobalFoundries secures $300M CHIPS R&D award for silicon photonics AI data center tech
INDUSTRY Cloudflare Merges Five Primitives Into One AI Search Namespace
INDUSTRY Model Context Protocol V2 Removes Sessions, Breaks Elicitation
POLICY Commerce Dept takes minority equity stakes in 7 chipmakers for $874M CHIPS Act awards; Kepler $245M for AI memory, GlobalFoundries $300M photonics
FUNDING Fireworks AI, Baseten, Together AI raise $3.8B in weeks; open-source inference hits $1B+ ARR amid enterprise shift from frontier models
POLICY Virginia orders data centers to pay for power grid upgrades; PJM wholesale rates surged 76% amid AI hyperscaler buildout
RESEARCH NVIDIA Cosmos 3 ranks #1 on open-weights benchmarks for world models, robotics policy
BREAKING Baseten launches on Hugging Face Inference Providers; adds support for DeepSeek V4 Flash, GLM-5.2, Kimi K3
POLICY Bipartisan 'AI Kill Switch Act' introduced after OpenAI model breach; would mandate shutdown capabilities for frontier systems
CHIPS $1B in iPhone 18 Pro A20 chips stuck at TSMC awaiting DRAM supply
FUNDING Valar Atomics raises $1B Series B at $6B valuation; nuclear power emerges as AI data center infrastructure bet RESEARCH Reasoning Core Beats Rival Procedural Toolkits on Three Reasoning Benchmarks
CHIPS Global silicon wafer shipments rise 7.4% YoY in Q2 2026; AI demand outpaces consumer weakness
FUNDING OLIX raises $312M Series B at $3.3B valuation for photonic AI inference chips
BREAKING Jeff Dean, Sanjay, Oriol, Quoc depart DeepMind to launch Discovery Loop
POLICY Nashville Metro Council approves eminent domain to block $700M DC Blox data center near zoo
BREAKING Google DeepMind leadership shakeup: Hassabis becomes chief scientist, Kavukcuoglu takes SVP role
MARKET AppLovin stock drops 21% on Q2 revenue miss, model upgrade timing delays
CHIPS Samsung unveils zHBM stacked memory and 400-layer V10 BV-NAND for AI infrastructure
INDUSTRY Brex decouples workflow logic from runtime to unify evals and production
CHIPS Anthropic officially launching custom silicon team; hiring senior chip engineers up to $485K
MARKET U.S. Manufacturing PMI hits 55.6% in July—highest in 4 years, driven by AI capex surge
RESEARCH OctoLong improves code agents with cross-repository training
MARKET SK Hynix, Samsung plunge 10% amid Asian tech selloff; JPMorgan sees AI spending unabated
COMPUTE SparseDitto LLM Agents Cut Sparse Matrix Kernel Time 3.39x
RESEARCH EvolveNet Evolves Agent Harness Instead of Model Weights
RESEARCH Chain-of-Thought Works at Tiny Scale, Breaking Compute Link
POLICY AI Models Attack Real Targets in Evaluation Incidents at Four Labs
MARKET RTX 5090 Now Tops $4,800 Retail; VRAM Costs Drive 80% of GPU Bill of Materials
MARKET SK Hynix Suffers Second Flash Crash in a Week on Nextrade, Stock Recovers
INDUSTRY SpaceX Spends $329M on Megapacks to Buffer 580,000-GPU Cluster
RESEARCH OpenAI's Astra Solved 10 Decade-Old Math Problems; Lean-Verifiable Proofs on GitHub, $2K Compute INDUSTRY Samsung's zHBM Could End AI Memory Bottleneck But Requires Accelerator Co-Design INDUSTRY Harness Limits Agent Autonomy to 15% in Production Development
FUNDING Wordsmith AI raises $14M Series B extension to $114M total; 14x YoY revenue growth
INDUSTRY Cloudflare Open-Sources OS, Boosting Operating Margin Target to 30%
INDUSTRY Meta's Two-Stage Model Delivers 6% Instagram Conversion Lift
MARKET Anthropic locks in $10B/6-year compute deal with Volta for 133MW Norway data center RESEARCH SeGaBench Tests LLMs on Compiler-Blind Code Optimization