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G.Skill AMD EXPO ULL RAM hits $1,099; 57–79% premium over standard EXPO for tight timings
FUNDING
OpenAI, Anthropic Confidentially File for IPOs; Race for 2026 Debuts at $1T+ Valuations
FUNDING
SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B, Largest Startup Acquisition Ever
CHIPS
Zluda CUDA emulator loses funding again; back to hobby project with PhysX gains
CHIPS
Claude in Microsoft Foundry now runs on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra in Azure
MARKET
Alphabet joins Dow Jones after +4% Monday pop, but stock tracking worst month since Feb 2025 amid AI headwinds
BREAKING
Quantinuum partners with HPE on hybrid quantum-HPC-AI testbeds for enterprise
POLICY
NIST launches Quantum Manufacturing Engineering Center with SRI; $20M to accelerate scalable quantum component production
CHIPS
Qualcomm Acquires Modular for ~$4B; Ex-Apple/Google AI Startup Brings Multi-Vendor Chip Abstraction
FUNDING
DeepSeek Closes $7.4B Series A; Founder, Tencent, CATL Back China's AI Champion at $52–59B Valuation
BREAKING
Five DeepMind Researchers Exit Alphabet to Anthropic and OpenAI in Single Week
INDUSTRY
Ai2 Model Achieves 37× Better Density Estimation Than KDE
CHIPS
NVIDIA revives 5-year-old RTX 3060 12GB at $339; GDDR6 shortage drives budget GPU strategy
FUNDING
SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60B in all-stock deal, largest VC-backed startup acquisition ever
FUNDING
SpaceX exercises $60B option to acquire Cursor, AI coding startup, in largest VC-backed M&A deal ever
INDUSTRY
Target Deploys LLM Ranker Covering 100% of Campaign Forecasts
CHIPS
Firefly Aerospace deploys NVIDIA Jetson for on-orbit lunar AI processing; Blue Ghost Mission 2 targets late 2026
CHIPS
China Scales Domestic GPU Clusters; Moore Threads, Huawei, Alibaba Each Deploy 10,000-Card Infrastructure
CHIPS
South Korea Announces $520B Public-Private Chip Investment; Samsung, SK Hynix Build 4 HBM Fabs