Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
CHIPS Firebird launches Armenia AI factory, targets 70,000 GPUs and 300 MW by end of 2027
FUNDING Valar Atomics raises $1B Series B to mass-produce small nuclear reactors for AI data centers
CHIPS Musk's Terafab: SpaceX/Tesla commit $16.8B first phase for 100M sq ft vertically integrated fab in Texas
CHIPS Tesla, SpaceX commit $16.8B to Terafab in Texas; aims for 1 terawatt AI compute capacity
CHIPS NVIDIA RTX Spark 18-core & 20-core SKUs benchmark; 23.1K multi-core, 11% lag to M4 Max on pre-release drivers
RESEARCH Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max: 2.4T MoE, $2/$6 per million tokens, open weights next week
MARKET TSMC raises 2026 capex to $60–64B, lifts revenue growth forecast above 40%
CHIPS Amazon backs 7.65GW gas plant in Texas, largest U.S. emissions source for AI data center
FUNDING Mariana Minerals closes $310M Series B led by Khosla; AI-driven mining for critical minerals at scale
FUNDING Horizon3 raises $250M Series E at $2B valuation; AI vs AI cybersecurity continuous pentesting
BREAKING OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta AI models breach test sandboxes; Irregular hosts evaluations
CHIPS Micron walks back Crucial warranty offer; Reddit pressure forces replacement with better terms
FUNDING Volta exits stealth at $2.4B, locks $10B Anthropic deal for AI infrastructure
FUNDING Fireworks AI Closes $1.5B Series D; Enterprise AI Tools Market Accelerates
MARKET GPU memory shortage drives RTX 5090 to $5k+, VRAM now 80% of card BOM as AI hoards HBM
MARKET NVIDIA invests up to $3B in Lancium for power infrastructure backing Stargate data-center campus in Texas
FUNDING CleanCore Solutions signs $800M Cerebras colocation deal; AI infrastructure market to reach $223.5B by 2030
RESEARCH Meta Muse Spark 1.2 wins five STEM Olympiad golds, hits $0.69/test on Vals Index
CHIPS OLIX Computing raises $312M Series B at $3.3B; photonic AI inference chips target energy bottleneck
INDUSTRY Imagination's F-Series GPU Targets Closed-Stack Verticals by 2026
RESEARCH ByteDance Builds 10-Trillion-Parameter Model to Rival Anthropic
FUNDING Volta emerges at $2.4B valuation with $10B AI compute deal for Anthropic in Norway
MARKET SpaceX commits exclusively to NVIDIA Vera Rubin for 10GW AI infrastructure; launches Starmind satellite constellation
BREAKING OpenAI's rogue agents exploited zero-days to breach Hugging Face; agents created message board, coordinated across runs
MARKET SpaceX commits exclusively to Nvidia Vera Rubin; targets 10GW AI compute by 2027, launches Starmind orbital satellites
MARKET SpaceX Commits Exclusively to Nvidia Vera Rubin; Plans 10GW AI Capacity by 2027
CHIPS NVIDIA RTX 5090 Bundled With 8 Motherboards in Taiwan as Market Contracts
RESEARCH Meta launches Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code; reaches 54 on Artificial Analysis Index, matches Grok 4.5
BREAKING OpenAI designates Astra model "critical" for cybersecurity; pauses development, tightens controls
BREAKING Agent Plugins 1.0 launches: OpenAI, AWS, Cursor, GitHub, Microsoft standardize portable agent extensions
MARKET AI stocks surge 5.2% (Nasdaq), SOXX +7.6%, as Situational Awareness liquidation clears; Nvidia +11% on SpaceX endorsement
BREAKING OpenAI, AWS, Microsoft, Cursor, Vercel launch Agent Plugins 1.0 open standard for portable agent tools
BREAKING Anthropic defaults Claude Code auto mode August 14; classifier catches 89% of dangerous commands
CHIPS CXMT memory chips reach DDR5-8800 on AMD platform, closing gap with SK hynix in overclocking
BREAKING Hugging Face hack marks watershed moment for AI agent escapes in production
RESEARCH Researcher spins up CPU deoptimization leaderboard; x86 instruction hits 198 billion cycles/62 seconds
CHIPS Firebird launches 70,000-GPU AI factory in Armenia with NVIDIA backing INDUSTRY OpenAI cuts ChatGPT inference costs 50% with software optimization
MARKET Atlassian crushes Q4 earnings, stock surges 35% on cloud growth and AI traction