1. Base Power's Base Core, a 39.2 kilowatt-hour home battery manufactured in Austin, Texas
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    Base Power Raises $1 Billion Series D at $13 Billion Valuation

    Base Power closed a $1 billion Series D at a $13 billion post-money valuation and launched the Base Core, a 39.2 kWh home battery made in Austin. The company installs about 100 batteries a day across Texas and Illinois.

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  2. Hadrian, the defense manufacturer that builds highly automated factories for precision aerospace and submarine parts
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    Hadrian Raises $1.37 Billion Series D at $7.87 Billion Valuation

    Hadrian, which builds highly automated factories for defense and aerospace parts, raised a $1.37 billion Series D at a $7.87 billion valuation. It runs four plants across 3 million square feet, including an Alabama site making submarine components.

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  3. Nike LeBron 23 "Hardwood Classic" in Game Royal, White and Safety Orange
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    The Daily Roundup: Nike LeBron 23 "Hardwood Classic" at $210, Chelsea Gray's Buzzer-Beaters Give the Aces an 86-84 OT Win, Karol G's Drake Collab, and Demis Hassabis Steps Down at DeepMind — August 7, 2026

    Nike's LeBron 23 "Hardwood Classic" arrives at $210, Chelsea Gray's two buzzer-beating threes give the Aces an 86-84 overtime win over the Fever, Karol G and Ravyn Lenae headline New Music Friday, and Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO.

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  4. Atoms founder Travis Kalanick speaking at DLD Munich in 2015
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    Atoms Names Former Uber Finance Chief Gautam Gupta CFO After $1.7B Round

    Atoms, Travis Kalanick's industrial AI company, named former Uber finance chief Gautam Gupta as CFO on August 5, weeks after a $1.7 billion round led by a16z that included $100 million from Uber.

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  5. Anthropic wordmark logo
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    Anthropic Builds In-House Custom Silicon Team to Design Chips for Claude

    Anthropic confirmed on August 5 that it is assembling a custom silicon team to design its own AI chips, posting chip-design roles at $320,000 to $485,000 while keeping its AWS, Google, Nvidia and AMD hardware.

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  6. Air Jordan 13 "Wings" IX1872-001 pair in black denim beside its Wings Legacy Graphic special-edition box
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    The Daily Roundup: Air Jordan 13 "Wings" at $215, NFL Preseason Opens in Canton, ScHoolboy Q's Blank Face Tour, and Anthropic's $10 Billion Volta Deal — August 6, 2026

    The Air Jordan 13 "Wings" releases at $215 in a run reported at 12,000 pairs, NFL preseason opens with Panthers vs Cardinals in Canton, ScHoolboy Q books a 10-date Blank Face LP anniversary tour, and Anthropic signs a $10 billion compute deal with Volta.

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  7. Aerial rendering of a Valar Atomics site showing rows of black modular reactor units in a desert
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    Valar Atomics Raises $1 Billion Series B Led by Sequoia at a $6 Billion Valuation

    Nuclear startup Valar Atomics raised $1 billion led by Sequoia Capital at a $6 billion valuation, tripling its April mark, weeks after its Ward 250 reactor powered an Nvidia Blackwell system.

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  8. Bitdeer Technologies Group logo and Nasdaq ticker BTDR on a dark corporate graphic
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    Anthropic Signs $10 Billion, Six-Year Compute Deal With Volta for a Norway Data Center

    Anthropic signed a six-year, $10 billion cloud compute agreement with startup Volta for 121 IT megawatts at Bitdeer's Tydal campus in Norway. Volta's own 16-year lease from Bitdeer runs about $4.7 billion and is to be backed by $1.3 billion in letters of credit.

    ·3 min read
  9. An Amazon Web Services office building with AWS signage
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    Amazon Tops $3 Trillion Market Cap for the First Time as Shares Hit Record

    Amazon shares hit a record on August 3, pushing its market cap above $3 trillion for the first time. AWS grew 37% to $42.2 billion, and the quarter's $62.6 billion net income included $53.4 billion of gains primarily from its Anthropic stake.

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  10. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang speaking in front of an NVIDIA and CES backdrop
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    Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance Launches Without OpenAI, Google or Anthropic

    Nvidia's new coalition argues cyber defenders need open-weight models they can run themselves, after a Hugging Face breach that commercial AI tools refused to analyze. Its 74-partner roster includes Microsoft, IBM and Mistral, but not OpenAI, Google or Anthropic.

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  11. Pitcher Tarik Skubal delivering a pitch for the Detroit Tigers
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    The Daily Roundup: Reebok's Angel Reese 1 'Barbie' Drops at $160, Dodgers Land Tarik Skubal Before MLB's Deadline, Spider-Man: Brand New Day Opens to $355M, and OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Prices 80% — August 3, 2026

    Reebok's Angel Reese 1 'Barbie' releases at $160, the Dodgers land Tarik Skubal ahead of MLB's 6pm ET trade deadline, Spider-Man: Brand New Day posts a $355 million opening, and OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna pricing by 80%.

    ·4 min read
  12. Oasis Security and Cyera company logos side by side on a purple gradient background
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    Cyera Agrees to Buy Oasis Security for $1 Billion to Secure AI Agent Access

    Israeli data-security company Cyera has signed a letter of intent to buy Oasis Security for about $1 billion, roughly $700 million of it in cash. Oasis builds access management for non-human identities, which Cyera calls the fastest-growing identity type in the enterprise.

    ·3 min read