Everything the newsroom published, in chronological order. Each item carries origin, sources and reading time.
FUNDING Castelion raises $1B Series C at $13B valuation to scale hypersonic missile production
MARKET Broadcom-backed SPV raises $70–80B debt to finance AI data centers for Anthropic
FUNDING Wispr Flow raises $280M at $2B valuation on 60B+ words processed, new Canto model
FUNDING Etched raises $700M at $21B valuation; Jane Street becomes first paying customer
FUNDING Kling AI closes $3B at $18B valuation; 75% revenue from US as Kuaishou spins out video unit for HK listing
FUNDING Lovable doubles valuation to $13.3B in Series C on $500M ARR; vibe coding moves to enterprise operations
CHIPS Trane and Eaton launch integrated AI data center design; 15% efficiency gains, 80% less copper
RESEARCH HumeAI researchers expose ASR benchmark overfitting: models reproduce errors to match test expectations
MARKET Micron, SanDisk, Seagate, Western Digital surge 170%\u2013575% YTD on AI memory crunch INDUSTRY Cloudflare Cuts Astro Issue Backlog 85% with AI Agent Pipeline
RESEARCH Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash; 65% DeepSWE, 56 Intelligence Index, 3x faster than Terra
CHIPS LG enters chip packaging with maskless laser-imaging tool; targets TSMC CoWoS competition
RESEARCH Claude Opus 5 scores 30.2% on ARC-AGI-3, nearly 4x previous best; independently formulates algebraic equations
FUNDING China's YMTC completes pre-IPO tutoring for Shanghai STAR Market listing at ~$148B valuation
RESEARCH Six ASR Models Memorize Benchmarks Instead of Transcribing
FUNDING SoundHealth raises $12.25M Series A for AI-powered acoustic wearables; 500K+ treatment sessions
FUNDING Emesent raises $17M to scale GPS-denied autonomy platform, $7M from Australia's sovereign fund
CHIPS LG Display FLiPP eliminates fine metal mask; OLED panels 1.6× brighter, 2.4× longer lifespan
FUNDING Broadcom seeks $60–100B in debt to finance Anthropic AI chips via Blackstone/Apollo
MARKET Meta faces $1.4T penalty trial over infinite scroll, addictive features; 29 states seek design overhaul
CHIPS Supermicro completes independent probe into $2.5B chip-smuggling scheme; fires employees
CHIPS SanDisk NAS 800 7.68TB SSD hits 14,000 TBW—1 drive-write-per-day for 5 years at $2,199
FUNDING Emesent lands $17M for autonomous mining robotics; NRFC venture debt signals gov backing
FUNDING Greyparrot closes $27M Series B for AI waste analytics; 1T+ detections unlock $2.5B recovery value
CHIPS Enterprise SSD prices hit 18.6x HDD cost; 25PB all-flash cluster now costs $51.6M vs $12.9M hybrid
FUNDING Astromech, Colossal Spinout, Raises $20M at $3.8B Valuation; Predicts Biological Change
POLICY CFTC Opens Comment Period on Compute Derivatives; CME, Silicon Data Target October Launch
MARKET Samsung announces up to $80B shareholder return; SK Hynix buyback sparks memory-chip rally
RESEARCH Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-DSpark: up to 3.18x faster inference via speculative decoding
BREAKING DeepSeek API pricing surges 4.5× at peak hours; V4 Pro output hits $3.96/M (Aug 16)
CHIPS Samsung HBM4 yield hits 80%; both SKH and Samsung enter qualification sprint for Rubin memory
FUNDING Muon Space raises $250M Series C at $1.5B valuation; targets 500 satellites/year by 2027
MARKET SK Hynix shifts bonus structure to 60% stock, 40% cash; $28.6B share buyback signals AI capex confidence
INDUSTRY Databricks Genie Closes Agent Meaning Gap with Ontology Tools
FUNDING NVIDIA strikes $6B licensing deal with Poolside, invests $1B at $12B valuation
INDUSTRY Agents score 0.166 on Navers Lab training algorithm benchmark
INDUSTRY Stanford Extracts Task Models from Screen Recordings
COMPUTE Phantom Gains: How Self-Training Can Invent Fake Capability Improvements
RESEARCH Google DeepMind paper shows when routing signals waste compute
BREAKING OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with Study Mode, parental controls, and anthropomorphism guardrails