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CHIPS
South Korea Announces $520B Public-Private Chip Investment; Samsung, SK Hynix Build 4 HBM Fabs
RESEARCH
Artificial neuron on silicon chip discovered; mimics brain efficiency, could slash AI power use
CHIPS
Samsung, SK hynix, Micron sued over DRAM price fixing; prices up 700% in four years
CHIPS
Palantir deploys NVIDIA Nemotron in air-gapped US govt AI stack
FUNDING
Anthropic files confidentially for IPO at $965B valuation after $65B Series H; leapfrogs OpenAI
CHIPS
MLPerf Training v6.0: NVIDIA Blackwell sweeps, AMD within 5-6% on dense LLM training
FUNDING
Menlo Ventures raises $3B, largest in 50-year history, all-in on AI startups across stack
INDUSTRY
YOFC and China Telecom hit 51.3 Tb/s across 128-mile fiber without repeaters
BREAKING
AWS FinOps Agent enters public preview; AI-powered cost anomaly investigation for cloud ops
BREAKING
Comcast to spin off NBCUniversal and Sky in tax-free split; stock surges 25% on announcement
CHIPS
Imec roadmap targets 0.3nm by 2038; CFET transistors coming to A7 in 2033
CHIPS
Cerebras AI chip IPO raises $5.5B on 68% first-day pop; WSE-3 wafer-scale competes with Nvidia
FUNDING
Q2 2026 records $1B+ startup exits: SpaceX $75B IPO, Cerebras $5.55B, Quantinuum $1.68B
MARKET
SpaceX raises $25B in debt after IPO; poses diversification challenge for investors holding both equity and bonds
RESEARCH
Vision-language models route knowledge through just 2.5% of network
FUNDING
British Business Bank deploys £400m per year into UK scaleups via 10 first-time VC microfunds
FUNDING
SatVu closes £30M (€34M) thermal satellite round led by NATO Innovation Fund; HotSat constellation
CHIPS
YOFC hollow-core fiber hits 51.3 Tb/s over 128 miles unrepeatered; AI-era backbone milestone