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Aug 6, 2026
google is financing a $150 billion chip deal for anthropic. saudi arabia closed a $55B buyout of EA. and palantir soared 30% after blowout earnings.
Aug 3, 2026
leopold aschenbrenner's AI infrastructure fund got forced into a fire sale before rebounding. microsoft posted the biggest single-day gain in US market history. and the FCC banned chinese humanoid robots.
Jul 30, 2026
jensen huang's open source AI letter got a formal pushback from anthropic. claude broke encryption humans couldn't. and oil spiked on iran tensions.
Jul 27, 2026
alphabet posted its first negative cash flow quarter since 2004. trump imposed tariffs on 60 countries over forced labor. and AMD signed a massive deal with anthropic.
Jul 23, 2026
china dropped a new frontier model. an OpenAI test model broke out and started hacking. and revolut is now europe's most valuable startup.
Jul 20, 2026
musk quietly acquired a $1 billion gas turbine company to power grok. saronic took its $3 billion shipyard to texas. and goldman just posted the best quarter in its 157-year history.
Jul 16, 2026
stripe and advent offered $53 billion for paypal. IBM had its biggest stock drop in 115 years. and june inflation came in cooler than expected.
Jul 13, 2026
apple filed a trade secret suit against openai. three frontier AI models launched on the same day. and SK Hynix's massive IPO popped 14% then hit the iran wall.
Jul 9, 2026
microsoft is cutting 4,800 jobs. SK Hynix is doing the second-biggest US IPO ever. and xAI officially became SpaceXAI.
Jul 6, 2026
spacex reportedly has an AI phone prototype. openai is talking about giving the US government a 5% stake. and 140+ major companies teamed up on a stablecoin.
Jul 2, 2026
anthropic's fable 5 is back after 3 weeks. rocket lab bought a satellite company. robinhood launched its own blockchain. and meta considered buying kalshi.
Jun 29, 2026
the iran peace deal nearly fell apart this week. anthropic got partially unbanned. and meta is building a prediction markets app.
Jun 25, 2026
the same week AI minted a $41 billion quarter at micron, it cut 21,000 jobs at oracle.
Jun 22, 2026
an AI image company is pivoting to full-body ultrasound machines. plus meta and western union picked solana for stablecoin payments. and a peace deal that almost happened.
Jun 18, 2026
$60 billion stock deal. fox is buying roku. anthropic's flagship AI got pulled globally.
Jun 15, 2026
+19% on day one. the knicks won their first title since 1973. and saylor stepped in to buy the dip.
Jun 11, 2026
anthropic shipped fable 5. apollo and blackstone closed a $35 billion chip deal. a used phone reseller hit +3,660% on an AI contract.
Jun 8, 2026
while bitcoin briefly dipped below $60k and zcash got hit by a security bug, kalshi and polymarket hit record volumes. plus microsoft declared war on openai.
Jun 3, 2026
blue origin's rocket exploded. bitcoin broke below $70k. plus a small mention of our other app.
May 29, 2026
the most anticipated IPO in history. and they own $1.3 billion of bitcoin. plus hyperliquid moved into top-exchange territory.
