Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING SambaNova raises $1B Series F at $11B valuation; JPMorgan deploys inference chips on-prem
MARKET AI companies deploy $200m+ in 2026 midterms; Leading the Future + Public First Action back 40 candidates
MARKET Gartner: AI servers hit 258 TWh by 2027, surpassing conventional hardware for first time
INDUSTRY AlloyDB Trains Local Models Inside PostgreSQL for 23,000× Speed Gains
BREAKING Grok 4.5 launches at $2/$6 per million tokens, undercutting Opus 4.8 on cost and speed
CHIPS Imec roadmap: 2.5D optical I/O cuts AI inference interconnect power from 1.25kW to <200W
BREAKING SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.5 at $2/$6 per MTok; claims parity with Opus 4.7, faster
BREAKING Grok 4.5 launches at $2/$6 per million tokens: SpaceXAI's economics play vs. Opus, not performance crown
FUNDING Rapidus secures ¥267.6B ($1.7B) for 2nm mass production by 2027; Japan largest shareholder
MARKET SK Hynix US IPO (SKHY) launches July 10; $28B raise 7x oversubscribed, AI memory demand drives 200%+ YTD gain
FUNDING QuantumDiamonds closes €91M (€15M equity + €76M grants) for quantum chip-inspection tech
RESEARCH Cornell's Co-LMLM Matches GPT-4o-Mini by Storing Facts in a Database
CHIPS Micron breaks ground on $9.3B HBM fab in Japan; adds subsidized capacity for AI RESEARCH Timestep Weighting Cuts Reward-Model Query Costs for Diffusion RLHF
RESEARCH STRACE Framework Boosts Multi-Agent Verification by 16 Points
MARKET Luxshare IPO debuts in Hong Kong, raises HK$24.27B; Apple supplier eyes broader electronics and auto market
RESEARCH DynaKRAG Boosts Multi-Hop QA Accuracy by Up to 5.78 Points
FUNDING Prime Intellect hits $1B valuation on $130M Series A; $100M ARR; enterprise RL agents move off-frontier
COMPUTE Agent Workloads Drive Modal's $300 Million Sandbox Revenue
FUNDING ElevenLabs targets $22B secondary valuation; voice AI doubles from $11B in five months on $500M ARR
BREAKING SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 at Opus-class performance; $2/M input tokens vs Claude $5/M
INDUSTRY Rapidus Targets 2nm Production by 2027 With No Named Customers
MARKET Blackstone QTS raises $870M via data center asset-backed securities; Nemotron benchmarks open vs closed models
BREAKING China flags Claude Code monitoring mechanism as security backdoor; Anthropic says it's anti-abuse experiment INDUSTRY Databricks Customers Cut Migration Costs by 73 Percent
INDUSTRY Uber exhausts AI coding budget in four months
FUNDING Bespoke Labs raises $40M for AI agent training environments; frontier labs abandon pure model scaling
RESEARCH OpenAI Reveals 30% of SWE-Bench Pro Tasks Are Broken
CHIPS NVIDIA denies Kyber NVL144 delay reports; roadmap remains intact for H2 2027 launch
FUNDING Taktile raises $110M Series C from Goldman Sachs for AI decisioning in banks and insurers
FUNDING Bespoke Labs raises $40M Series A to build realistic training grounds for long-horizon AI agents INDUSTRY Harness choice matters more than model price for coding agents
INDUSTRY LangChain-NVIDIA NemoClaw Cuts Deep Agent Costs 10x
MARKET SpaceX stock slides to $148 post-Nasdaq 100 inclusion; analysts see AI data center, Starlink upside
MARKET Together AI launches Provisioned Throughput for reserved open-model inference at 90% below closed APIs
MARKET Meta breaks ground on $9B Alberta data center; first Canadian AI facility
INDUSTRY Momentic Scales to 20 Billion Cache Entries with ClickHouse
MARKET Microsoft commits $10 billion to Japan AI infrastructure, trains 1M engineers through 2029
FUNDING Bespoke Labs raises $40M Series A to build simulation environments for training autonomous AI agents