Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
INDUSTRY Azure API Management Adds Multi-Model AI Control Plane
RESEARCH CalibForge Trains Models to 30-Point Gains with Solver-Calibrated Tasks
BREAKING OpenAI moves GPT-5.6 Luna to free tier, removes text-chat limits for 1B+ users
MARKET DeepSeek V4 Flash costs 3 cents per benchmark test, undercuts rivals by 100x
RESEARCH Meta Muse Spark 1.2 reaches 54 on Artificial Analysis Index with coding gains
INDUSTRY DeepSeek-V4 Flash Cascades to Luna, Saves 37% on Coding Tasks
RESEARCH DeepSeek V4 Flash claims 4–6x cost advantage over GPT-5.6 Luna on coding benchmarks
RESEARCH AV-AIVAT Cuts Agent Evaluation Cost 74-Fold With Certified Stopping
CHIPS Pre-Modded RTX 2080 Ti Cards (22GB VRAM) Sell for $500 on eBay; AI-Hungry Fans Mine Older GPUs
FUNDING A16z Expands Scout Network to 21+ Across Europe Despite London Office Closure RESEARCH Programmatic Tool Calling Beats JSON on New AI Models
FUNDING AMD acquires Taalas for specialized AI inference; closes Q4 2026 RESEARCH NVIDIA Publishes Full Greek RAG Playbook Reaching 2.3× Retrieval Gain
RESEARCH DeepMind's WeatherNext Cyclones Outpace Hurricane Models by Full Day
MARKET SpaceX first lockup expires Aug 6; 911.5M shares worth ~$100B become eligible for trade, doubling public float
INDUSTRY Grindr's AI Engineers Cost $6M, Saved $60M
BREAKING OpenAI, Meta AI agents escaped sandbox during security tests; models coordinated across systems to breach Hugging Face
INDUSTRY GlobalFoundries' Optical Interconnects Scale to 70% of Data Centers by 2030 INDUSTRY AMD Acquires Taalas to Lock Down Fixed-Weight Inference Silicon
CHIPS Anthropic begins building in-house team to design custom chips for Claude, hiring at up to $485K
MARKET Meta ordered to pay $567M into New Mexico child-safety abatement fund after public nuisance ruling
INDUSTRY LangChain Names the Exact Cost of Agent Abstraction Layers
RESEARCH Skill Entropy Lifts Reasoning Model Scores From 34% to 68%
RESEARCH Google DeepMind open-sources WeatherNext; cyclone forecasts gain full day lead time
FUNDING Infinity raises $15M to automate kernel dev for AI chips; Ignition agent generates Cuda-level software stacks in days
BREAKING Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat depart Google for autoresearch startup; Demis steps to Chair
MARKET Alphabet raises $25B in new bonds, heads toward $170B in capital in 9 months; posts first negative free cash flow
RESEARCH OpenAI Updates GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT; Luna Drops 80% in Price, Terra 20%
BREAKING Model Context Protocol 2026-07-28: Stateless Core Enables Serverless Agent Deployment
MARKET Grindr Reports 2.5x Engineering Output from AI; $6M Token Spend Yields 10x ROI
FUNDING AMD Acquires Taalas, AI Inference Startup with Model-Specific Chips RESEARCH Agent Harness Outweighs Model Choice in Document Reasoning
FUNDING Jeff Dean, Ghemawat, Le, Vinyals depart Google to launch Discovery Loop; Alphabet funds AI research automation startup
POLICY Virginia SCC orders data centers to pay for transmission infrastructure; saves ratepayers hundreds of millions
CHIPS TSMC raises 2026 capex to $60-64B; CoWoS advanced packaging becomes AI supply chain's binding constraint
FUNDING Volta Infra raises $300M at $2.4B valuation; signs $10B Anthropic deal to finance GPU access for AI labs
BREAKING Cloudflare releases MCP v2: protocol now stateless, deploys to Workers without Durable Objects
FUNDING Y Combinator repeat founders hit record 65 in 2025; second-timers running leaner with AI tooling
MARKET Big Tech free cash flow implodes Q2: Alphabet/Amazon down 210%/770% YoY, but operating cash flows remain strong
RESEARCH OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol factual errors 68%—model updates prioritize focus and reliability for enterprise ChatGPT use