Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
MARKET ASML raises full-year guidance again on AI chip demand; expects €43–45B revenue, gross margin to 54–56%
RESEARCH Android Agent Framework Cuts Mobile Task Time by 95 Percent
INDUSTRY ARD Standard Cuts Agent Context by 88.7%, Yet Adoption Remains Minimal
FUNDING H1 2026 global VC hits $412.7B, 86% to AI; investors bet on inference chip wars
RESEARCH E3 Method Cuts LLM Agent Token Use by 91% on Code Edits
RESEARCH Researcher exposes systemic LLM jailbreaks across OpenAI, Google, Meta; obtains nuke/bioweapon details with simple prompting
RESEARCH TerraZero Tops InterPlan Benchmark Without Human Data
RESEARCH LLM Judges Reverse 85% of Verdicts When Given Reference Answers
MARKET SK Hynix shares surge 11% as Asia chip rally bounces back from sell-off
FUNDING NinjaOne raises $400M Series C extension at $12.3B valuation; achieves profitability on 70% YoY growth
MARKET OpenAI Codex Hits 8M Users in 5 Days Post–GPT-5.6; Forced to Reset Usage Caps
MARKET IBM Q2 Miss: Clients Rush Memory, Delay Software Deals as AI Scarcity Spreads
MARKET IBM stock tanks 25% on Q2 miss; corporate IT budgets shifting from software to AI security
RESEARCH Simon Willison reverse-engineers Codex Desktop's animated pet feature — gpt-image-2 generates chroma-keyed sprite sheets under the hood
CHIPS Anthropic in talks with Samsung to design custom AI chip; plans October S-1 filing
FUNDING DeepSeek in advanced talks for Series B at $71B valuation; AI agents drive data center capex
MARKET IBM stock craters 25% on Q2 revenue miss; customer capex shifted to AI hardware
BREAKING 26 Meta employees sue over AI-assisted layoff discrimination targeting workers on medical leave
CHIPS ZTE gets US approval to buy NVIDIA H200 chips; Kingsoft cleared for AMD equivalents
MARKET OpenAI Codex hits 5M weekly users, passes Anthropic's Claude Code as scaling tool
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