Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING Etched raises $300M Series C at $10.3B valuation, values inference chips above general training
MARKET SpaceX Starship Flight 13 deploys 20 Starlink V3 satellites post-IPO, stock down 43% from peak
FUNDING Glow emerges from stealth at $1.2B; AI-native endpoint security for enterprise devices
FUNDING Sila raises $300M for silicon anode expansion; pivots beyond EV to AI, defense, robotics
MARKET Samsung launches RX robotics division; Korea pledges 312T won to Yeongnam AI hub
CHIPS Fortinet becomes Intel Foundry's first named external customer on Intel 4
INDUSTRY Intel's Foundry Fix Lags As Hyperscalers Hold Back Volume
MARKET Tesla Q2 free cash flow turns negative $1.1B as capex explodes 142% funding Robotaxi, Optimus, chip fab
MARKET BlackRock markets $12.3B bonds for Meta El Paso data center as AI debt fuels infrastructure buildout
MARKET Waymo launches standalone app in Atlanta, Austin as Uber exclusivity ends January 2028
INDUSTRY Airbus Picks Scaleway for EU-Only Aircraft Design and Manufacturing
FUNDING Etched raises $300M at $10.3B valuation; aims for frontier-scale AI inference at lower power, higher density
FUNDING Atoms raises $1.7B from a16z for physical AI in mining, food, transport
FUNDING Augustus closes $180M Series B at $1B valuation; OCC charter enables AI-native clearing bank
POLICY OpenAI, Anthropic absent from open-weights coalition as Huang debuts on X
FUNDING Meshy AI closes $400M Series B at $1.5B valuation; ARR up 12x YoY with 12M users
RESEARCH Kimi K3 achieves 68.5% on DeepSWE, costs 2.8x less per task than Claude Fable 5
MARKET Alphabet pushes capex to $205B; bond market signals AI spending limits
INDUSTRY Kimi K3 Delivers 2.8× More Solved Tasks per Dollar Than Fable 5
FUNDING Moonshot AI targets $50B valuation in pre-IPO round, eyes Hong Kong listing by year-end 2026
MARKET Google Cloud backlog hits $514B, up $54B in one quarter; operating income tripled to $8.8B
MARKET Alphabet raises capex guidance to $190–205B for 2026; posts first-ever negative quarterly FCF
FUNDING Atoms raises $1.7B Series from Andreessen Horowitz for physical AI robotics
INDUSTRY Telco Multi-Agent AI Cuts 5G Security Response Time 40 Percent
CHIPS Intel commits to 14A mass production in 2028, posts 25% revenue growth on strong data center demand
POLICY NVIDIA + 24 companies sign open-weights letter opposing AI model restrictions as Jensen Huang joins X
FUNDING SoftBank weighs deal for Gravis Robotics at $500M valuation, doubling down on construction autonomy
POLICY Trump launches Section 301 probe into EU tech fines, threatens 'substantial' tariffs on bloc
MARKET Moody's warns AI capex boom eroding credit quality at hyperscalers, projects $1T spending by 2027
COMPUTE Vera Rubin Cuts Inference Token Cost to One-Tenth of Blackwell
BREAKING Anthropic upgrades Claude Voice to Opus/Sonnet models; turn-based architecture competes with OpenAI's full-duplex GPT-Live on tool access, not speech naturalness
RESEARCH LangChain publishes Deep Agents benchmark framework; three eval suites (Harbor-Index, τ³-bench, ContextBench) set long-horizon agent autonomy standard
RESEARCH Black Forest Labs FLUX 3: unified multimodal model generates video, audio, and robot actions from single architecture
BREAKING NVIDIA, KAIST launch first joint AI lab in Korea; SK memory co-dev expanded
POLICY US Genesis Mission deploys $5B+ for 278 AI-for-science projects across 50 states
FUNDING NVIDIA commits $300M ($50M/year) to KAIST agentic AI lab; first joint lab with Korean university
BREAKING Expedia's STAR platform uses LLMs for incident root-cause analysis; deterministic workflows reduce mean-time-to-recover
BREAKING Siemens Fuse EDA AI system automates chip design workflows; transforms hours-long tasks into seconds
POLICY UK dismantles DSIT, elevates AI minister to cabinet; AI brief moves closer to prime minister
FUNDING AMD secures 2GW Anthropic deal, invests $5B in Claude maker to rival Nvidia in AI chips