Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
CHIPS AMD BC-250 mining board unlocks all 40 GPU cores, rivals Steam Machine at half the cost
FUNDING Intel raises $19.7B in equity offering to fund foundry, 14A capacity build
INDUSTRY NVIDIA Releases Nemotron Lightning and Switchyard for Agent Routing
CHIPS NVIDIA ships Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, 30B open model with 4x faster inference for agents
POLICY Trump imposes 15% polysilicon tariff + price floors; minimum import prices hit $21/kg polysilicon, $0.22/W solar cells effective Dec 4
CHIPS FCC drafts ban on Chinese optical transceivers; Innolight faces supply shock as US pursues AI data center decoupling
FUNDING Nick Blair's Pyra defense tech startup seeks $200M as European defense funding surges
POLICY Moolenaar Demands BIS Restore Chip Export Rule Trump Administration Abandoned
FUNDING Monashees opens Silicon Valley office, leads Google partnership on LatAm AI startups
POLICY Rep. Moolenaar presses Trump admin to enforce chip export controls against Huawei, Sophgo diversion
MARKET NVIDIA, Wall Street mobilize $500B for AI infrastructure financing; compute becomes asset class
INDUSTRY Most Teams Still Overpay 2–5x on Inference Costs
FUNDING Palmer Luckey's Erebor bank nears $1.5B raise at $8B valuation, deposits near $4.6B
CHIPS AI hardware's next frontier: system-level integration beats raw transistor gains
MARKET CoreWeave Q2 earnings set as test of capital spending discipline amid margin pressure
POLICY US imposes 15% polysilicon tariff, price floors effective December 4 under Section 232
FUNDING Anthropic locks 191 MW data center capacity with Riot Platforms in $9.1B 20-year deal
MARKET Tencent's WorkBuddy hits 20.97M monthly visits, tops China's desktop AI agent rankings
RESEARCH MMDiff Lets Engineers Audit and Edit Multimodal Model Features
RESEARCH ArchAgent v2 beats human champions on three-level cache design
RESEARCH Meta Llama 4 Scout hits 10M context window; Maverick 400B MoE outperforms GPT-4.5 on benchmarks
BREAKING Tesla FSD v14.3.3 ships with 20% faster reaction time, Robotaxi expands across Austin metro
FUNDING Mistral AI in talks to raise €3B at €20B valuation; nearly doubles Series C pricing RESEARCH GENCO replaces three classical power grid solvers with one neural architecture
FUNDING Physical AI startups absorb record capital; foundation models and humanoids split 2026 bets
RESEARCH Amazon's Consilience Detects Silent Mode Collapse in Confidence-Based Reasoning
FUNDING Discovered Materials raises $9M to build AI agents for chip materials discovery
RESEARCH Taboo Stress-Tests LLMs on Production Constraints
FUNDING Infinity.inc raises $15M to automate inference kernel generation for any AI chip in days
POLICY Amsterdam Splits Factuality and Honesty in Language Model Evaluation
MARKET AMD Q2 2026: data center revenue doubles to $6.7B; partners Anthropic for 2GW Helios deployment
FUNDING Hadrian raises $1.37B at $7.9B to scale AI-powered defense manufacturing
BREAKING OpenAI GPT-5.6-Cyber answers 95% of advanced hacking requests; Daybreak Red now open
RESEARCH Meta releases Muse Glimmer, 30B open-weights agent model for local inference on consumer GPU
INDUSTRY Unity Catalog Routes Agent Security to Data Layer, Not Prompts
BREAKING Tencent integrates Hy3 AI model into WorkBuddy globally; free access through August 31
BREAKING Cloudflare launches WebMCP in developer preview: agents can call tools on any site with one toggle, no code changes
BREAKING Meta releases Muse Glimmer: 30B open-weight model for local agents, distilled from Muse Spark, runs on laptops