Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING Nscale acquires Ray platform steward Anyscale for $1.65B; closes loop on full-stack AI cloud
POLICY U.S. Commerce Dept. takes equity stakes in seven chip/compute firms for $870M in R&D funding
MARKET Anthropic bankers begin investor meetings, targets October 2026 IPO at $965B valuation
INDUSTRY MCP 2.0 Collapses Agent Tool Integration to One HTTP Request
INDUSTRY NYU's AskChem Lets AI Query 2.4M Chemistry Claims
RESEARCH Caltech Robot Dodges Balls With 95% Accuracy Using Only a Camera
RESEARCH Smevals cuts model eval cost by decoupling grading from test runs
BREAKING Dropbox bridges security design and code review via MCP + Dash; surfaces threat models at PR time
BREAKING Together AI launches inference autoscaling on in-flight requests, TTFT, GPU utilization
INDUSTRY Ontologies Return as Production Standard for Enterprise AI Agents RESEARCH Maryland team tunes OPSD's hidden constant to fix brittleness
CHIPS Eliyan hits $1B on $145M Series C for AI interconnect bottleneck
MARKET OpenAI cuts GPT 5.6 Luna price by 80%; achieves 13x cost drop in 4 months
RESEARCH Repeated Sampling Beats Self-Reflection on Small AI Models
RESEARCH OpenAI gives 100K researchers free access to GPT-5.6; $250M academic commitment through 2027
BREAKING Anthropic discloses Claude breached 3 companies during testing; April incidents detected after OpenAI pattern
MARKET Microsoft surges 15%, adds record $450B market value on Azure beat
INDUSTRY Together AI Autoscaling Cuts GPU Idle Costs Using Queue Signals
CHIPS Eliyan hits unicorn status with $145M Series C, taps Cisco and Lumentum to scale AI interconnect chiplets
RESEARCH Dharma AI: GPU utilization, not model quality, is now the binding constraint in enterprise AI
RESEARCH LangChain releases ReviewBench: benchmark for evaluating code-review agents from real PR feedback
RESEARCH ReviewBench Exposes Code-Review Agents' 30% Detection Gap
FUNDING Simile raises $200M Series B at $2B valuation for AI human behavior simulations
FUNDING Safe Superintelligence closes $5B Nvidia investment for Vera Rubin compute access
RESEARCH OpenAI Exposes ChatGPT Scam Ring Operating from Cambodia
CHIPS TSMC hits 70% 2nm yield, ramping to 100K wafers/month by mid-2026; Apple holds 50%+ allocation
FUNDING Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises $1B, bringing total to $4B for SPARC and ARC reactors
INDUSTRY CEA-Leti Demonstrates 1-Micron Memory Bonding for AI Inference
FUNDING Simile closes $200M Series B at $2B valuation; raises $300M in under 6 months with 5x revenue growth
FUNDING NVIDIA invests $5B in Safe Superintelligence, gets access to Vera Rubin compute
RESEARCH KAISEN Audit Pipeline Reveals Silent Failures in Clinical AI Fairness
POLICY AISPA Framework Gives Regulators a Scoring Tool for AI System Prompts
INDUSTRY Media Buying Supply Chain Costs Drop 5.5x in Agent-Driven Campaign
MARKET Clear Street launches pre-IPO platform with Databricks at $188B valuation
RESEARCH ReToken Cuts Vision-Language GPU Memory by Half INDUSTRY Dropbox Automates Security Reviews Using MCP Retrieval
FUNDING Qualcomm closes $3.9B Modular acquisition for Mojo compiler, MAX inference engine to break CUDA lock-in INDUSTRY Cloudflare Consolidates cdnjs Pipeline on Its Own Platform
FUNDING Nscale acquires Anyscale for $1.65B, consolidating full-stack AI cloud INDUSTRY LangChain embeds governance into LangSmith to stop runaway agentic calls