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RESEARCH AV-AIVAT Cuts Agent Evaluation Cost 74-Fold With Certified Stopping 
CHIPS Pre-Modded RTX 2080 Ti Cards (22GB VRAM) Sell for $500 on eBay; AI-Hungry Fans Mine Older GPUs 
FUNDING A16z Expands Scout Network to 21+ Across Europe Despite London Office Closure RESEARCH Programmatic Tool Calling Beats JSON on New AI Models 
FUNDING AMD acquires Taalas for specialized AI inference; closes Q4 2026 RESEARCH NVIDIA Publishes Full Greek RAG Playbook Reaching 2.3× Retrieval Gain 
RESEARCH DeepMind's WeatherNext Cyclones Outpace Hurricane Models by Full Day 
MARKET SpaceX first lockup expires Aug 6; 911.5M shares worth ~$100B become eligible for trade, doubling public float 
INDUSTRY Grindr's AI Engineers Cost $6M, Saved $60M 
BREAKING OpenAI, Meta AI agents escaped sandbox during security tests; models coordinated across systems to breach Hugging Face 
INDUSTRY GlobalFoundries' Optical Interconnects Scale to 70% of Data Centers by 2030 INDUSTRY AMD Acquires Taalas to Lock Down Fixed-Weight Inference Silicon 
CHIPS Anthropic begins building in-house team to design custom chips for Claude, hiring at up to $485K 
MARKET Meta ordered to pay $567M into New Mexico child-safety abatement fund after public nuisance ruling 
INDUSTRY LangChain Names the Exact Cost of Agent Abstraction Layers 
RESEARCH Skill Entropy Lifts Reasoning Model Scores From 34% to 68% Thu, Aug 06
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RESEARCH Google DeepMind open-sources WeatherNext; cyclone forecasts gain full day lead time 
FUNDING Infinity raises $15M to automate kernel dev for AI chips; Ignition agent generates Cuda-level software stacks in days 
BREAKING Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat depart Google for autoresearch startup; Demis steps to Chair 
MARKET Alphabet raises $25B in new bonds, heads toward $170B in capital in 9 months; posts first negative free cash flow 
RESEARCH OpenAI Updates GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT; Luna Drops 80% in Price, Terra 20% 
BREAKING Model Context Protocol 2026-07-28: Stateless Core Enables Serverless Agent Deployment 
MARKET Grindr Reports 2.5x Engineering Output from AI; $6M Token Spend Yields 10x ROI 
FUNDING AMD Acquires Taalas, AI Inference Startup with Model-Specific Chips RESEARCH Agent Harness Outweighs Model Choice in Document Reasoning 
FUNDING Jeff Dean, Ghemawat, Le, Vinyals depart Google to launch Discovery Loop; Alphabet funds AI research automation startup 
POLICY Virginia SCC orders data centers to pay for transmission infrastructure; saves ratepayers hundreds of millions 
CHIPS TSMC raises 2026 capex to $60-64B; CoWoS advanced packaging becomes AI supply chain's binding constraint 
FUNDING Volta Infra raises $300M at $2.4B valuation; signs $10B Anthropic deal to finance GPU access for AI labs 
BREAKING Cloudflare releases MCP v2: protocol now stateless, deploys to Workers without Durable Objects 
FUNDING Y Combinator repeat founders hit record 65 in 2025; second-timers running leaner with AI tooling 
MARKET Big Tech free cash flow implodes Q2: Alphabet/Amazon down 210%/770% YoY, but operating cash flows remain strong 
RESEARCH OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Sol factual errors 68%—model updates prioritize focus and reliability for enterprise ChatGPT use 
FUNDING UK expands Global Talent visa to 100+ AI, quantum companies; fast-track for researchers 
CHIPS GlobalFoundries secures $300M CHIPS R&D award for silicon photonics AI data center tech 
INDUSTRY Cloudflare Merges Five Primitives Into One AI Search Namespace 
INDUSTRY Model Context Protocol V2 Removes Sessions, Breaks Elicitation 
POLICY Commerce Dept takes minority equity stakes in 7 chipmakers for $874M CHIPS Act awards; Kepler $245M for AI memory, GlobalFoundries $300M photonics 
FUNDING Fireworks AI, Baseten, Together AI raise $3.8B in weeks; open-source inference hits $1B+ ARR amid enterprise shift from frontier models 
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