Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING Revolut secures French banking licence; dual-hub EU strategy unlocks lending products
MARKET DeepSeek V4-Flash undercuts V4-Pro by 67% output cost; ~79% coding quality at 1/3 price
BREAKING Qwen3.8-Max hits 86.1 on OSWorld; open weights for flagship and 27B due this week
CHIPS TSMC hitting 70%+ yield on 2nm; DRAM bottleneck holds $1B of Apple A20 Pro chips
RESEARCH GPT-5.6 Sol powers Model ML finance agent; 39% fewer tokens per investment deck than Fable 5
RESEARCH DeepSeek V4-Flash official beats V4-Pro on agent benchmarks; Terminal Bench 2.1 hits 82.7
MARKET SpaceX stock rebounds to $135 IPO price after beating Q2 revenue forecast
BREAKING Revolut granted French banking licence; Paris HQ opens 2027 as expansion accelerates
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