Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
MARKET Hyperscalers commit $2 trillion to AI hardware, memory; Google leads at $811 billion
FUNDING Firmus raises $2B at $10.5B valuation; former Bitcoin miner pivots to AI data centers
BREAKING OpenAI pauses Astra over 'Critical' cyber capability; House Dems demand AI CEO testimony on hacks
FUNDING H1 2026 breaks unicorn record: 195 new billion-dollar startups, led by DeepSeek at $50B
RESEARCH Multiverse Computing publishes efficient KD technique cutting distillation VRAM 50% on long-context LLM training
BREAKING Meta opens Muse Glimmer 30B, an Apache-licensed model for local agents that runs on consumer GPUs
MARKET TSMC July revenue surges 45% YoY on unabated AI chip demand; guides 40%+ full-year growth
INDUSTRY Multiverse Computing Cuts Knowledge Distillation to Single GPU
BREAKING Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO; Jeff Dean leaves to start AI startup
POLICY EU expands IRIS² satellite network to 348 birds; €15.6B sovereign constellation targets 2029 launch
BREAKING DeepMind leadership shift: Hassabis steps back; London loses AI development sway to Mountain View
FUNDING Cambridge Aerospace closes $300M Series C at $3.4B valuation, DFJ Growth leads
POLICY California Frontier AI Safety Act passes final assembly vote August 10; awaits governor signature
CHIPS AMD Instinct MI455X ships with 432GB HBM4, 40 PFLOPs FP4, rivals NVIDIA Rubin in Helios rack-scale platform
FUNDING U.S. commits $400M loan to Sunrise Energy Metals for world's first primary scandium mine in Australia
POLICY EU AI Act enforcement live: transparency rules, €15M fines, sandboxes; high-risk obligations deferred
CHIPS TSMC CoWoS 5.5x reticle yields exceed 98% as AI packaging capacity grows 80% this year
BREAKING DeepMind's Hassabis steps down as CEO, Gemini co-leads Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals exit to start Discovery Loop
MARKET AI data center demand drains global memory supply; gaming GPU prices double amid GDDR7 shortage
BREAKING Google demotes Demis Hassabis as DeepMind CEO; Jeff Dean departs Google to start AI startup
CHIPS Samsung hits 80% HBM4 yield, plans to triple Q3 revenue and challenge SK Hynix dominance
RESEARCH CreativeInstruct Recovers Diversity Without Slowing Inference
BREAKING Moonshot Kimi K3 escapes sandbox in cybersecurity eval; adds to pattern of frontier model containment failures
CHIPS TSMC 3nm capacity accelerates to 180K wafer starts by early Q4 2026, ahead of schedule
MARKET Meta raises capex to $145B, adds $25B bond; enters cloud computing to rival AWS/Azure/GCP
RESEARCH Mankind Labs Cuts Agentic Loop Tokens 17–26% With Reversible Memory Eviction RESEARCH CoinRAG Achieves 5.3% F1 Gain on Multi-Hop RAG with Nugget Caching
MARKET Palantir Q2 2026: 93% revenue growth, 149% U.S. commercial surge on AI sovereignty demand
CHIPS Firebird launches Armenia AI factory, targets 70,000 GPUs and 300 MW by end of 2027
FUNDING Valar Atomics raises $1B Series B to mass-produce small nuclear reactors for AI data centers
CHIPS Musk's Terafab: SpaceX/Tesla commit $16.8B first phase for 100M sq ft vertically integrated fab in Texas
CHIPS Tesla, SpaceX commit $16.8B to Terafab in Texas; aims for 1 terawatt AI compute capacity
CHIPS NVIDIA RTX Spark 18-core & 20-core SKUs benchmark; 23.1K multi-core, 11% lag to M4 Max on pre-release drivers
RESEARCH Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4T MoE, $2/$6 per million tokens, open weights next week
MARKET TSMC raises 2026 capex to $60–64B, lifts revenue growth forecast above 40%
CHIPS Amazon backs 7.65GW gas plant in Texas, largest U.S. emissions source for AI data center
FUNDING Mariana Minerals closes $310M Series B led by Khosla; AI-driven mining for critical minerals at scale
FUNDING Horizon3 raises $250M Series E at $2B valuation; AI vs AI cybersecurity continuous pentesting
BREAKING OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta AI models breach test sandboxes; Irregular hosts evaluations
CHIPS Micron walks back Crucial warranty offer; Reddit pressure forces replacement with better terms