Situational Awareness drops 67% in a month: the trial of the true believers
A Situational Awareness investment vehicle loses two-thirds of its value in a month during the July AI rout.
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ByteDance internal re-org: Feishu team absorbed by Doubao, enterprise sales moved to Volcano Engine
This is an internal ByteDance restructuring, not a startup transaction: the Lark/Feishu productivity team is being folded into the Doubao AI product org, while Volcano Engine takes over B2B distribution.
Aug 1, 2026 at 09:40 15 17
Verizon locks $1B of dark fiber for Google - the DC bottleneck spreads to the backhaul
Verizon signs $1 billion of dark fiber dedicated to Google data centers, presented as "the first of many". After the chip, electronics, and water, long-distance optical capacity becomes the next AI bottleneck.
Jul 28, 2026 at 21:00 9 9
CXMT surges 500% on debut, tops Intel's market cap - Chinese memory reprices at cycle peak
Chinese memory maker CXMT jumped 471-500% on its Shanghai listing and - for a moment - its market cap surpassed Intel's. The market's message: HBM/DRAM is where the AI dollars land next.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:16 6 6
Nuclear-for-data-centers finance structure comes together - how the first SMR-DC deal actually pencils out
e27 reports the deal structure for financing a first nuclear reactor to power a data centre is finally taking shape. The AI power wall meets project finance.
Jul 27, 2026 at 10:13 10 8
Nvidia's $1.5B Amkor deal: the US packaging leg finally gets its capex
Nvidia signs $1.5B with Amkor for advanced packaging in the United States. The compute AI bottleneck rises one notch towards the sovereignty of the back-end.
Jul 26, 2026 at 18:40 8 9
Paytm: +45% in UPI value in Q1, AI + product overhaul pay off
Paytm emerges from a tough cycle by showing that the AI-product duo moves the hardest metric to move - the value of transactions.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 14 9
Databricks extends its Microsoft deal and expands its use of Azure
Databricks remains more of a supplier than a direct rival to Microsoft - as Snowflake and OpenAI reshuffle the data platform deck.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 8 9
Brussels imposes €890M on Google under the DMA: the sanction mechanism is in place
New record DMA fine - Washington retaliates by threatening commercial stability. Europe consolidates an ex ante antitrust regime; Google does the math.
Jul 24, 2026 at 09:33 8 8
Reddit falls on the stock market following a report on restricting data access to Google AI
Reddit's stock drops after a report suggests potential restrictions on Google AI's access to its data - the data contract becomes the central issue in its valuation.
Jul 23, 2026 at 07:42 14 13
Anthropic Meta: preliminary $10B talks reshape the frontier alliance map
Meta and Anthropic are in preliminary discussions for a deal reportedly worth up to $10 billion - a move that would slot the last unaligned frontier lab into a specific hyperscaler orbit.
Jul 18, 2026 at 11:11 12 8
CERT-In mandates human oversight for high-value AI-driven payments in India
India moves to make a human step mandatory in AI-driven payment flows. The biggest UPI market gets first-mover on regulating agentic commerce.
Jul 16, 2026 at 13:50 27 8