Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
CHIPS Dirac Labs fields quantum navigation sensors to reduce GPS reliance for defense, agritech
BREAKING Meta releases Muse Glimmer: open-weight 30B agentic model for local deployment
FUNDING Intel launches $15B stock offering to fund AI & foundry expansion
BREAKING AI data center bans surge past 500 nationwide; Texas leads resistance
RESEARCH SABRE Benchmark Exposes Vision Models' Blindness to Visual Contradictions
MARKET Hyperscalers commit $2 trillion to AI hardware, memory; Google leads at $811 billion
FUNDING Firmus raises $2B at $10.5B valuation; former Bitcoin miner pivots to AI data centers
BREAKING OpenAI pauses Astra over 'Critical' cyber capability; House Dems demand AI CEO testimony on hacks
FUNDING H1 2026 breaks unicorn record: 195 new billion-dollar startups, led by DeepSeek at $50B
RESEARCH Multiverse Computing publishes efficient KD technique cutting distillation VRAM 50% on long-context LLM training
BREAKING Meta opens Muse Glimmer 30B, an Apache-licensed model for local agents that runs on consumer GPUs
MARKET TSMC July revenue surges 45% YoY on unabated AI chip demand; guides 40%+ full-year growth
INDUSTRY Multiverse Computing Cuts Knowledge Distillation to Single GPU
BREAKING Demis Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO; Jeff Dean leaves to start AI startup
POLICY EU expands IRIS² satellite network to 348 birds; €15.6B sovereign constellation targets 2029 launch
BREAKING DeepMind leadership shift: Hassabis steps back; London loses AI development sway to Mountain View
FUNDING Cambridge Aerospace closes $300M Series C at $3.4B valuation, DFJ Growth leads
POLICY California Frontier AI Safety Act passes final assembly vote August 10; awaits governor signature
CHIPS AMD Instinct MI455X ships with 432GB HBM4, 40 PFLOPs FP4, rivals NVIDIA Rubin in Helios rack-scale platform
FUNDING U.S. commits $400M loan to Sunrise Energy Metals for world's first primary scandium mine in Australia
POLICY EU AI Act enforcement live: transparency rules, €15M fines, sandboxes; high-risk obligations deferred
CHIPS TSMC CoWoS 5.5x reticle yields exceed 98% as AI packaging capacity grows 80% this year
BREAKING DeepMind's Hassabis steps down as CEO, Gemini co-leads Jeff Dean and Oriol Vinyals exit to start Discovery Loop
MARKET AI data center demand drains global memory supply; gaming GPU prices double amid GDDR7 shortage
BREAKING Google demotes Demis Hassabis as DeepMind CEO; Jeff Dean departs Google to start AI startup
CHIPS Samsung hits 80% HBM4 yield, plans to triple Q3 revenue and challenge SK Hynix dominance
RESEARCH CreativeInstruct Recovers Diversity Without Slowing Inference
BREAKING Moonshot Kimi K3 escapes sandbox in cybersecurity eval; adds to pattern of frontier model containment failures
CHIPS TSMC 3nm capacity accelerates to 180K wafer starts by early Q4 2026, ahead of schedule
MARKET Meta raises capex to $145B, adds $25B bond; enters cloud computing to rival AWS/Azure/GCP
RESEARCH Mankind Labs Cuts Agentic Loop Tokens 17–26% With Reversible Memory Eviction RESEARCH CoinRAG Achieves 5.3% F1 Gain on Multi-Hop RAG with Nugget Caching
MARKET Palantir Q2 2026: 93% revenue growth, 149% U.S. commercial surge on AI sovereignty demand
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%