Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
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%
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
POLICY Virginia orders data centers to pay for power grid upgrades; PJM wholesale rates surged 76% amid AI hyperscaler buildout