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Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7.5 billion to own AI billing infrastructure, Nevada grants Waymo and Uber large-scale robotaxi permits while capping Tesla at 10 vehicles, Slack launches Slack Code to bring AI coding agents into collaborative team channels

Cerebras launches CS-4 wafer-scale AI chip claiming 30x GPU speed advantage, Indian fintech Navi raises first-ever outside funding from Prosus ahead of $315M IPO, AI accounting startup Rillet hits $1B valuation in two years with blue-chip Series C

Higgsfield AI quadruples valuation to $5.4B with $400M Series B, Unitree Robotics surges 629% in Shanghai IPO debut, OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with safety guardrails

Stripe acquires OpenRouter for $7B+, Groq raises $350M as NVIDIA partner after valuation reset, Unitree unveils record-breaking Superman robot ahead of IPO

Nvidia secures exclusive AI compute deal for Ohio mega-campus, Anthropic posts $11.5B Q2 revenue ahead of potential $2T IPO, Shein targets $25-28B Hong Kong IPO valuation — down 74% from peak

L&T wins $1B+ contract to build India's largest GPU cluster for Together AI in Chennai, Cisco reports record FY2026 with $9.3B in AI orders but shares drop on margin fears, Meta removes 756K Australian teen accounts under world-first social media age ban

Lovable raises $400M Series C at $13.3B valuation, Anthropic in advanced talks to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart for $6B, CoreWeave posts record $2.58B Q2 revenue with $104B contracted backlog

NVIDIA signs six Wall Street firms to $500B+ AI infrastructure financing framework, OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with 95% exploit completion rate under tiered Daybreak program, Anthropic deploys global text watermarks and C2PA metadata for all Claude outputs

Meta releases Muse Glimmer open-weight agentic AI for consumer hardware, Claude advances Riemann Hypothesis lower bound to 67.2%, OpenAI loses ethics and safety leaders with no replacements named

Amazon backs potentially most-polluting U.S. power plant for AI data centers, OpenAI halts Astra model over critical cybersecurity capabilities, Cloudflare launches Kitesurf headless browser for AI agents

Demis Hassabis steps back at DeepMind as Jeff Dean departs to co-found Discovery Loop, Hadrian closes a $1.37B Series D for AI-powered defense manufacturing, Unitree Robotics prices the first humanoid robot IPO on mainland China

Samsung breaks 400-layer NAND barrier with wafer bonding, SpaceX first earnings show 92% revenue surge but $18B capex shocks investors, Google DeepMind reshuffles as Jeff Dean departs to found Discovery Loop

Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for $1.285B — down 89% from peak, HappyRobot raises $150M Series C at $1.22B valuation, Red Hat launches asago open-source AI governance framework

Anthropic signs $10B deal with months-old startup Volta, Volta raises $300M at $2.4B valuation backed by Nvidia and a16z, IREN closes $625M Mirantis acquisition to build full-stack AI cloud

Axis Robotics raises $12M to crowdsource robot training data on-chain, Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 built on 20000-GPU Alibaba cluster amid export control allegations, Ethereum Institutional closes 100-plus-backer coalition round

Qualcomm closes $3.9B Modular acquisition and wins BMW decade-long chip deal, Microsoft Azure hits $100B annual revenue as AI capex soars, Meta earnings miss sparks selloff amid $130B+ spending plans, Cognizant Q2 beats on AI deployment work with Financial Services leading

China starts producing domestic DUV lithography machines, Meta and BlackRock announce $14B El Paso AI data center joint venture, WhatsApp Web adds full audio and video calling

Circle acquires IBM's blockchain patent portfolio to become top U.S. holder, NVIDIA launches open AI security alliance after rogue-model cyberattack, Chinese chipmaker CXMT surges 466% in landmark Shanghai IPO

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health for all U.S. users with HIPAA gap concerns, Google raises 2026 AI capex to $195–205B as Cloud surges, Anthropic publishes $200M Economic Futures Research Fund agenda targeting AI job displacement

Glow emerges from stealth as a $1.2B cybersecurity unicorn, Palo Alto Networks acquires Embrace to expand observability platform, SpaceX launches Northrop Grumman's robotic satellite servicing mission to orbit

White House Genesis Mission expands to 15 agencies with $5B in AI research awards, Neo exits stealth with $100M to secure enterprise AI agents, Databricks raises at $188B valuation

Andera raises $37M to automate internal audit with AI agents, Natural raises $30M to build agentic payment infrastructure, Gritt exits stealth with $34M for AI-powered solar construction robots

Anduril unveils Thunder autonomous attack drone at Farnborough, Alibaba previews 2.4 trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max AI model with skepticism attached, DeepSeek eyes $74 billion valuation ahead of potential STAR Market IPO

Emergent AI hits $1.5B valuation with $130M Series C, India approves $15B Semiconductor Mission 2.0 targeting 2nm chips, India's $7.5B Mobile Phone Manufacturing Scheme targets domestic brands and deep supply chain

Thinking Machines Lab releases open-weights AI model Inkling, OpenAI ships its first hardware product the Codex Micro macro pad, Ather Energy closes a $295M fundraise with 8x oversubscribed QIP

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 surfaces in unplanned soft launch targeting Claude Opus 4.8, Mira Murati's Thinking Machines releases open-weight Inkling model, India approves $15B Semicon 2.0 chip mission

Apple Intelligence clears Chinese regulators powered by Alibaba's Qwen model, AI studio Fountain O releases fully AI-generated Odyssey film at fraction of Nolan's $250M budget, Nebius launches asset-light cloud partnership model

PixVerse raises $439M and launches AI game engine, Nous Research hits $1.5B unicorn status with open-source Hermes Agent, DeepSeek eyes new funding round at $71B valuation

PixVerse raises $439M and launches AI game engine with real-time world model, DeepSeek seeks $71B valuation weeks after $7B raise, Reflection AI locks in $1B+ compute deal with Nebius for Nvidia GB300 chips

Apple files landmark trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI and io Products, Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves DeepMind for Anthropic, Microsoft routes Copilot workloads to in-house MAI models