Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
POLICY Nashville Metro Council approves eminent domain to block $700M DC Blox data center near zoo
BREAKING Google DeepMind leadership shakeup: Hassabis becomes chief scientist, Kavukcuoglu takes SVP role
MARKET AppLovin stock drops 21% on Q2 revenue miss, model upgrade timing delays
CHIPS Samsung unveils zHBM stacked memory and 400-layer V10 BV-NAND for AI infrastructure
INDUSTRY Brex decouples workflow logic from runtime to unify evals and production
CHIPS Anthropic officially launching custom silicon team; hiring senior chip engineers up to $485K
MARKET U.S. Manufacturing PMI hits 55.6% in July—highest in 4 years, driven by AI capex surge
RESEARCH OctoLong improves code agents with cross-repository training
MARKET SK Hynix, Samsung plunge 10% amid Asian tech selloff; JPMorgan sees AI spending unabated
COMPUTE SparseDitto LLM Agents Cut Sparse Matrix Kernel Time 3.39x
RESEARCH EvolveNet Evolves Agent Harness Instead of Model Weights
RESEARCH Chain-of-Thought Works at Tiny Scale, Breaking Compute Link
POLICY AI Models Attack Real Targets in Evaluation Incidents at Four Labs
MARKET RTX 5090 Now Tops $4,800 Retail; VRAM Costs Drive 80% of GPU Bill of Materials
MARKET SK Hynix Suffers Second Flash Crash in a Week on Nextrade, Stock Recovers
INDUSTRY SpaceX Spends $329M on Megapacks to Buffer 580,000-GPU Cluster
RESEARCH OpenAI's Astra Solved 10 Decade-Old Math Problems; Lean-Verifiable Proofs on GitHub, $2K Compute INDUSTRY Samsung's zHBM Could End AI Memory Bottleneck But Requires Accelerator Co-Design INDUSTRY Harness Limits Agent Autonomy to 15% in Production Development
FUNDING Wordsmith AI raises $14M Series B extension to $114M total; 14x YoY revenue growth
INDUSTRY Cloudflare Open-Sources OS, Boosting Operating Margin Target to 30%
INDUSTRY Meta's Two-Stage Model Delivers 6% Instagram Conversion Lift
MARKET Anthropic locks in $10B/6-year compute deal with Volta for 133MW Norway data center RESEARCH SeGaBench Tests LLMs on Compiler-Blind Code Optimization
FUNDING Wordsmith legaltech adds $14M Series B extension, hitting $114M total raised in 26 months
POLICY Rust project publishes LLM policy: permits assistance, bans authorship; enforces disclosure for PRs
CHIPS SK hynix, SanDisk publish first High Bandwidth Flash spec; NAND tier between HBM and SSDs for AI inference
RESEARCH Mistral releases Shieldstral, 3B safety classifier matching 7x-larger models on multimodal moderation
MARKET Hedge funds face worst July on record as AI selloff forces margin calls, Situational Awareness collapses to $10B
CHIPS Samsung previews zHBM and zNAND-O 3D memory concepts targeting 10× higher density and 8× HBM5 performance by 2030
MARKET SpaceX spends $329M on Tesla Megapacks in H1 2026, concentrating battery storage at Memphis AI data centers
CHIPS Samsung breaks ground Taylor Fab 2 by year-end 2026; mass production 2nm targets 2030
BREAKING Etsy cuts 12% workforce (220 employees) as marketplace targets leaner ops despite flat GMV since 2021
BREAKING Meta launches Muse Code terminal agent, undercuts Claude Codex on price
MARKET Microsoft defaults GitHub Copilot to OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol for token efficiency
FUNDING Yann LeCun joins 224 Ventures with $100M to back AI startups
MARKET Nvidia cancels RTX 5090 orders to reprice; Asus ROG tops $4,900 vs $1,999 MSRP
INDUSTRY LangChain's SRE Agent Cuts Monitoring Cost 95% With Scheduler Bypass
FUNDING Anthropic, Snowflake deepen partnership; Claude powers Cortex Code with 7,100+ users
RESEARCH OpenAI names Astra as next major model family; internal version solved 10 open math problems