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INDUSTRY Indium Phosphide Shortage Deepens as Nvidia Pumps $4 Billion Into Laser Makers
POLICY Commerce Department awards $874M in CHIPS Act R&D incentives to 7 AI infrastructure companies
POLICY U.S. lawmakers demand DoorDash disclose Chinese AI model usage
INDUSTRY Netflix Cuts Ranking Labels 40× by Switching to LLM-Native System
MARKET Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund collapses from $45B to $10B on margin calls, leverage blowup
MARKET Apple battles 'hundred-year flood' on memory pricing; inventory doubles to $11.09B
INDUSTRY LightOn's LateOn outperforms 4× larger models while open-source
RESEARCH AI Teammates Dominate Talks, Cut Human-to-Human Exchange
MARKET Tech megacaps post negative free cash flow; memory crisis forcing 2026 capex higher
MARKET Semiconductor index jumps 8.5%–5.4% as Microsoft, Amazon earnings revive AI capex appetite
RESEARCH First office benchmark to price agent work reveals productivity gap
MARKET Amazon hikes 2026 capex to $220B on memory costs; Big Tech capex race hits $725B
FUNDING Antora Energy closes $550M Series C at $2.47B valuation; thermal batteries for AI power
CHIPS Lumentum warns indium phosphide shortage worse than DRAM crisis; 30% supply gap looms
MARKET OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna by 80%, undercutting rivals as price war intensifies
RESEARCH No frontier model exceeds 2.6% on eight-step accounting tasks
FUNDING Zhongji Innolight raises HK$53.4B in Hong Kong's largest IPO since 2019 on AI optics
MARKET Samsung Q2 2026 operating profit hits ₩89.4T, 1,800% YoY surge on AI HBM demand
BREAKING China threatens retaliation as FCC restricts humanoid robot imports for cybersecurity
INDUSTRY Meta Considers $10B Compute Lease to Anthropic as GPU Demand Swells
CHIPS AI chip shortage moves upstream: CoWoS packaging bottleneck deepens into 2028
FUNDING Quanta Computer seeks $2.2B in GDS sale as AI server demand soars
MARKET Innolight raises $6.8B in Hong Kong listing; second-largest Asia IPO in 2026 RESEARCH OpenAI's API tweak lifts GPT-5.6 Sol to 38.3% on ARC-AGI-3
RESEARCH Frontier Agents Hit 65% on State Verification in Production Workflows
MARKET Meta negotiates $10B AI compute lease with Anthropic amid $130B–$145B capex push
MARKET Microsoft posts 43% Azure growth, holds capex steady at $175B; adds 31 data centers
BREAKING House Energy Committee demands SpaceX tour of Memphis AI data centers; alleges unpermitted gas turbines, no pollution controls
MARKET Meta's Instagram DAU jumps 16% during India Gen Z protests; Modi posts 300M-view selfie but government scrutiny deepens INDUSTRY LangChain Deep Agents v0.7 Cuts Prompt Tokens 65%
RESEARCH GPT-5.6 Sol tripled ARC-AGI-3 score to 38.3% with retained reasoning + compaction
POLICY US soft-pedals AI exports in Asia as China's open models gain regional footing
MARKET OpenAI July ARR exceeds entire Q2 on GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work momentum
FUNDING Qualcomm completes $3.9B acquisition of Modular; Chris Lattner leads AI software division
POLICY August 1 Deadline Triggers Federal AI Framework for Covered Models
BREAKING Together AI launches Moonshot Kimi K3 on day-zero; 2.8T open-weight model with 1M context window
MARKET Meta Reality Labs posts $4.62B loss on $431M revenue in Q2; cumulative losses top $83B
MARKET Qualcomm raises chip prices double-digit starting September 1; memory crunch blamed INDUSTRY Micron's SOCAMM2 Module Overhauls AI Memory Hierarchy
MARKET Meta, BlackRock form $14B venture for 1 GW El Paso data center; opens in 2028