Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING Dream raises $260M at $3B valuation; sovereign AI for government defense amid AI-era cyber threats
MARKET Cyber stocks surge on AI paranoia; IBM CEO flags Anthropic's Mythos as a top spending concern
FUNDING Israeli startup Dream raises $260M at $3B for sovereign AI cyber defense
FUNDING NinjaOne closes $400M Series C extension at $12.3B valuation
POLICY New York enacts first statewide AI data center ban for 1 year
INDUSTRY H200 Exports to China Stall as Beijing and Washington Create Double Choke
MARKET U.S. confirms small Nvidia H200 shipments to China, licenses restart
BREAKING Apple in talks with PrismML on iPhone AI model compression
CHIPS EDA market hits $5.7B in Q1 2026 (12.7% growth); APAC leads 17.7% YoY as hyperscalers build in-house
CHIPS NVIDIA Nemotron open models deliver 20x cheaper inference than frontier; Harvey, Glean ship post-trained agents
MARKET IBM warns software spending shift to infrastructure; Cramer backs Intel foundry over Arm licensees
MARKET Open-weight models now 10x cheaper than frontier APIs, closing capability gap to 7 months
POLICY Q-Day countdown: NIST finalizes three post-quantum crypto standards; organizations must test by 2030
FUNDING Together AI closes $800M Series C at $8.3B; Aramco Ventures leads as open-model infra consolidates
POLICY Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, NVIDIA launch ARD spec for agent tool discovery and governance
CHIPS NVIDIA Blackwell GB300 NVL72 hits $0.123/million tokens, 35x cheaper than Hopper, 50x per-watt gain
RESEARCH Three Hours on $329 GPU Replaces Thousands of Hours of NAS Training
MARKET Chamath: AI token costs double every 45 days; productivity gains plateau at 5% max
CHIPS China chip exports surge 96% YoY to $177B in H1 2026, driven by memory price boom
POLICY Demis Hassabis calls for U.S.-led AI standards body to test frontier models
BREAKING Databricks showcases Lakebase as high-velocity stateful memory for agentic AI workflows
RESEARCH Prime Intellect releases Verifiers v1; DAG trace format eliminates quadratic data growth in agentic RL
FUNDING TerraFirma closes $115M for remote-operated construction; SpaceX, Anduril among backers
STARTUPS Vimag Labs Raises $5M to Break China's Rare-Earth Motor Monopoly
CHIPS Intel invests €5B in Ireland fab to boost Xeon 6, Intel 3 production
POLICY New York enacts one-year data center moratorium for projects over 50 megawatts; first US state ban
FUNDING Cyera raises $600M at $12B valuation on AI agent security infrastructure play
FUNDING Cyera Raises $600M at $12B Valuation, Quadrupling Worth in 18 Months on AI Security Demand
INDUSTRY Google's Genkit Agents API Brings Long-Running Workflows to Application Servers
CHIPS NVIDIA halves authorized customer list in Asia to combat chip smuggling into China
POLICY Hassabis Sets AGI Timeline to 2029, Proposes Compute-Based Governance
CHIPS AMD Zen 6 debut July 22–23 with EPYC Venice; 2nm, 256-core, 70% perf boost
BREAKING OpenAI Codex reaches 7 million active users; temporarily removes 5-hour usage cap
FUNDING Secondary markets open late-stage private equity to retail: WHOOP secondary case study
CHIPS Researchers develop programmable thermal material that remembers state without power
FUNDING OpenAI acquires Northslope to expand forward-deployed AI engineering for enterprise customers
CHIPS Meta starts Iris custom AI chip production in September; plans 14-gigawatt datacenter by 2027
POLICY Spain Mobilizes €14.25B for Domestic AI Chip Roadmap, Still Years From Production
MARKET TSMC Q2 revenue beats at $39.6B (+36% YoY); June sales surged 68% signaling sustained AI demand
MARKET SK Hynix drops 15% in Seoul after Nasdaq IPO; chip sector rout triggered by memory cost concerns