Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
MARKET Anthropic revenue hits $30B ARR, overtakes OpenAI at $25B; enterprise focus drives efficiency gap
MARKET SK Hynix launches $28B Nasdaq IPO; HBM supplier pricing Friday as second-largest offering ever
BREAKING Meta launches Muse Image, native AI image model to reduce third-party dependence
FUNDING SK Hynix launches $28B Nasdaq IPO; second-largest after SpaceX, proceeds to fund South Korea fab expansion
CHIPS South Korea's $880B fab megacluster faces critical power shortage: needs 15–16 GW, has only 1.9 GW local supply
MARKET Samsung chip profit surges but stock tumbles 8% as AI demand concerns override earnings beat
INDUSTRY Barracuda Uses Databricks Genie to Cut Analyst Workload
MARKET SpaceX Colossus lands $26B in multi-year GPU contracts from Google, Anthropic; TSMC ships first US-made Blackwell
CHIPS Longsys posts 61,800% profit jump as AI memory demand crushes DRAM/NAND supply
MARKET Samsung's 19x profit surge fails to satisfy; chip stocks tumble on AI sustainability fears
POLICY Arvind Raman sworn in as NIST director; signals focus on AI standards, semiconductors
INDUSTRY Azure Foundry Unifies Open and Frontier Model Inference Under Single Endpoint
BREAKING Microsoft brings 3M+ Hugging Face open models to Foundry Managed Compute with weekly refresh
CHIPS NVIDIA launches Vera CPU for agentic AI, claims 1.8x sustained per-core performance over x86
CHIPS Intel Nova Lake officially confirmed with AVX-512 on both P-cores and E-cores
CHIPS Micron breaks ground on $9.3B Hiroshima HBM fab expansion; Japan subsidizes $3.2B
POLICY Federal Efficiency Mandates Could Standardize AI Accelerator Testing
MARKET Amazon raises $25B in bond sale for AI capex; projects $200B spending in 2026 INDUSTRY UK Cuts Data Center Approvals to 12 Months, Saves $1.3B per Project
MARKET Consumer GPU Prices Hit 50% Premium on H1 2026 Memory Crunch; VRAM Now 80% of BOM
MARKET Apple Supplier Luxshare Prices Hong Kong IPO at $3.1B, Diversifying Beyond Apple
FUNDING Edge AI chip maker Syntiant files for Nasdaq IPO; targets always-on device inference
MARKET U.S. Manufacturing PMI 53.3% in June; 8th month of production growth, headcount stabilizing
POLICY UK data centers get NSIP status; bypass local councils, cut approval timelines by 1 year
RESEARCH SovereignPA-Bench Measures Whether AI Agents Protect User Boundaries
POLICY UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance opens July 6 with 193 nations; scientific panel warns no technical guarantee of AI safety
BREAKING Anthropic transitions Fable 5 to usage-based credits; Pro/Max/Team subscriptions lose free access from July 8
BREAKING Pentagon-blacklisted Hesai expands U.S. footprint via NVIDIA autonomous platform; lidar cybersecurity concerns cited
RESEARCH Dual Planning Loop Solves Semantic Gap in Hierarchical Robots
BREAKING Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 restored globally after 19-day export control suspension
MARKET Chipmakers rout as semiconductor index tumbles 6.3%; KLA, Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix lead declines
POLICY EU AI Act "Digital Omnibus" extends SME simplifications to mid-caps; high-risk deadline August 2 2026
CHIPS Kioxia and SanDisk sample 332-layer BiCS10 NAND with 29+ Gb/mm² density for data centers
FUNDING North American startups raised record $392B in H1 2026, with Anthropic pulling $65B
MARKET Samsung Q2 profit jumps 19-fold on AI chip surge, but shares tumble 9% on valuation fears
INDUSTRY Graph-as-Policy Framework Achieves 0.93-0.99 Success Rate on Robot Manipulation
BREAKING Mistral open-weight model launching July with early access; ARR tops $400M, targeting $1B in 2026
RESEARCH SearchGen-20K Teaches Visual Generators When to Search
CHIPS Intel XBM patent ditches HBM's silicon interposer; backend-transistor DRAM + UCIe for $-efficient AI memory