Scope: Global
Policy & Regulation
Illinois AI Safety Measures Act: The Third State Law Redrawing US Frontier AI Rules
⚡ Key Takeaways Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act (SB 315) on July 6, 2026,...
Startups
General Intuition’s $320M Bet: Video Games as the Training Ground for AI Agents
⚡ Key Takeaways General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to train AI ‘action models’ on billions...
Skills & Careers
AI Evals Engineer: The First Technical Hire Every AI Product Company Now Wants
⚡ Key Takeaways Applied-AI companies including Perplexity, Cursor, Harvey and Sierra now hire an AI evals engineer among their first...
Infrastructure & Cloud
Data Centers Under the Sea: Offshore Wind and Ocean Cooling Go Live in 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways China’s HiCloud Technology brought a 24-megawatt underwater data center off Shanghai’s Lin-gang coast into full commercial operation...
Startups
Baseten’s $1.5B Series F: Inside AI Inference’s Infrastructure Gold Rush
⚡ Key Takeaways Baseten raised $1.5 billion in a Series F round at a valuation of up to $13 billion,...
Skills & Careers
Skills Gaps Are Killing Tech Projects: 49% Canceled and the Careers That Fix It
⚡ Key Takeaways A February 2026 Robert Half survey of 2,000+ hiring managers found only 6% of organizations have the...
Infrastructure & Cloud
The Flexibility Bargain: How Data Centers Trade Curtailment for Faster Power
⚡ Key Takeaways FERC issued six show-cause orders on June 18, 2026, forcing CAISO, ISO-NE, MISO, NYISO, PJM, and SPP...
Startups
The Legal AI Arms Race: Harvey at $11B vs Legora at $5.6B Rewrites the Category
⚡ Key Takeaways Harvey raised $200M at an $11 billion valuation in March 2026 while Legora closed a $600M Series...
Infrastructure & Cloud
AWS Sovereign Cloud Expands: New EU Local Zones Redraw Data-Residency Borders
⚡ Key Takeaways AWS launched its European Sovereign Cloud on January 14, 2026, backed by a €7.8 billion investment and...
Skills & Careers
New Security Job Titles: AI SOC Orchestrator and LLM Red Team Specialist
⚡ Key Takeaways Two new security job titles — AI SOC Orchestrator ($140K–$195K) and LLM Red Team Specialist ($160K–$230K) —...
AI & Automation
Cosmos 3: NVIDIA’s Open World Model and the Dawn of Physical AI
⚡ Key Takeaways NVIDIA launched Cosmos 3 on June 1, 2026, at COMPUTEX in Taipei — the world’s first fully...
