Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
INDUSTRY DDR5 Prices Hit 2008 Levels as AI Memory Demand Starves PCs
INDUSTRY MCP 2026 Turns AI Agent Infrastructure Stateless and Serverless-Ready
INDUSTRY Harness Normalizes SQL to Slash Query Latency INDUSTRY Netflix's gRPC API Queries 150 Billion Graph Edges Below 100ms
FUNDING Lumilens Emerges from Stealth at $5.51B: $700M Series C for AI Data-Center Optics
INDUSTRY CPU Is the New GPU in Amazon's Agentic AI Crunch
FUNDING Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for $1.28B, ending 89% downgrade from $11B peak
MARKET 'SaaSpocalypse' narrative fractures as Atlassian, Twilio surge 20%+ on earnings; Airtable acquired at 1/10 peak
FUNDING Lumilens emerges from stealth at $5.51B valuation with $700M Series C for optical AI interconnects
FUNDING Week's largest US funding rounds top $1B: Hadrian, Base Power, Valar Atomics close mega-rounds
FUNDING Volta raises $300M Series A at $2.4B valuation; lands $10B Anthropic compute contract in Norway
FUNDING Khosla Ventures targets record $5.5B fundraise, splitting $3B toward seed and early-stage AI
MARKET Situational Awareness forced liquidation clears July AI stock rout; trade rebounds as fundamentals hold
BREAKING LangChain launches Managed Deep Agents in public beta with durable execution, sandboxes, evals
RESEARCH DAIR's Bender & Hanna to livestream labor-vs-hype breakdown of AI company claims — Aug 10
CHIPS RAM prices revert to 2007 levels as AI chip demand undoes 20 years of Moore's Law gains
MARKET Airbnb stock surges 14% as AI drives customer support costs down 16% YoY
MARKET Amazon cracks down on internal EC2 CPU use as agentic AI drives shortage
BREAKING Kraken, Coinbase, Circle expand AI agent crypto infrastructure; stablecoins poised as agent payment rails
FUNDING Whatnot hits $20B valuation on $545M Series G for livestream commerce platform
INDUSTRY Instacart Open-Sources Blueberry, Incident Triage Agent for Slack
CHIPS China's Shanghai Aishengna begins DUV lithography mass production; targets 5 units in 2026
BREAKING Moonshot's Kimi K3 reaches frontier on open weights; ranks #1 in Frontend Code Arena, ties GPT-5.6 Sol broadly
FUNDING AMD acquires Taalas to hardwire AI models into specialized inference silicon
MARKET AI revenue clears depreciation hurdle; $25B exceeds $21B capex write-off in Q1 2026
FUNDING Khosla, Coatue, Nvidia led $14B venture rounds in July; Y Combinator most prolific
INDUSTRY AI Handles Incident Triage, but Humans Still Win the Hard Calls
MARKET Nvidia RTX 50-series selling at MSRP at QuakeCon signals extreme GPU scarcity; prices doubled in some regions
MARKET China closing AI capability gap with US; Hugging Face CEO: Beijing will dominate frontier models by end-2026 INDUSTRY Spotify's AI Coding Agent Cuts Migration Time 60–90%
BREAKING Azure AI Gateway tier enters preview: unified model/MCP routing, content safety, token metering at gateway
FUNDING AMD acquires Taalas to embed AI models in custom silicon for inference
BREAKING Meta Muse Spark 1.2 + Muse Code ships: 54 on Intelligence Index, claims 82.9% Terminal-Bench, $0.69/task
CHIPS Elon's Terafab breaks ground: $16.8B Texas chip fab for SpaceX, Tesla AI inference
CHIPS Anthropic builds custom AI inference chip with Samsung on 2nm process
MARKET China quant crash sends DeepSeek founder's $10B fund down 20% in July; AI bubble fears grip hedge funds
MARKET SK Hynix approves ₩54T capex for Y2 DRAM and M17 NAND fabs amid HBM surge
INDUSTRY STMicroelectronics ST54M Adds Hardware Post-Quantum Crypto for Edge Agents
CHIPS STMicroelectronics adds post-quantum crypto accelerator to ST54M secure element
BREAKING Meta launches Muse Code AI agent and Muse Spark 1.2 with aggressive pricing for coding tasks