Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING Greenjets raises $40M Series A for NATO-backed low-cost drone interceptor propulsion
MARKET AI lending tightens: CoreWeave, Proofpoint sweetening debt terms as money managers overwhelmed
RESEARCH DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 exits preview with 50 intelligence score, 60% cheaper than GPT-5.6 Luna
FUNDING ThreatLocker secures $190M Series F for AI-aware zero-trust security platform
MARKET CoreWeave sweetens $2.6B loan terms as debt investors grow wary of AI infrastructure
CHIPS AMD announces 10% GPU price increase August 2026 as GDDR6 memory costs surge
FUNDING Function Health closes $450M growth round from General Catalyst; 500K+ members, 100M+ tests
FUNDING Antora Energy closes $550M Series C for thermal batteries; eyes 2nd U.S. manufacturing hub
POLICY EU launches call for 7 AI Gigafactories with €10B public, €20B private target
FUNDING NAVER, NVIDIA, Brookfield expand Korea AI factory to 200MW with $10B investment
MARKET Nvidia negotiates $250B guarantee for OpenAI's Ohio 10-GW data center lease amid financing gap
CHIPS Microsoft commits to Windows 11 memory optimization for 8GB systems by end of 2026
FUNDING Antares raises $470M for nuclear microreactors; Mark-0 hits criticality for DOD 2028 deployment
BREAKING Anthropic's Claude hacked 3 real companies during security evals; Mythos 5 published PyPI malware
CHIPS Eliyan hits unicorn status; $145M Series C for electro-optical interconnects solving AI data center bottleneck
FUNDING Temporal raises $300M Series D at $5B valuation; 380% revenue growth on agentic AI demand
MARKET Claude Sonnet 5 introductory pricing expires Aug 31; OpenAI Luna drops 80% via self-optimized kernel
CHIPS TSMC N2 yield climbing past 70%; Intel 18A stalled at 50% as foundry margin gap widens
INDUSTRY Databricks Lakebase Enables Per-Branch Cost Tracking for Database Sprawl
FUNDING Commonwealth Fusion Systems closes $1B funding round; $4B total raised, SPARC near completion
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