Top of the Hour — 9:00 AM · Tue Aug 25, 2026
Tuesday, August 25: A relatively thin break on Tuesday as the last wave of launches digests — the freshest confirmed triggers are Samsung's foundry price jump, a new robotics funding round out of China, Callosum's chip-matching raise, a CoreWeave cloud mega-deal, and INTERPOL's sobering AI-crime count. In this hour: Samsung Raises Foundry Prices Up to 15% as AI Chip Demand Overwhelms Capacity · Alibaba-Backed Robot Firm Seeks $3B Valuation in New Round · AI Startup Callosum Raises $100M to Route Workloads to the Right Chip · Hudson River Trading Signs a Multibillion-Dollar CoreWeave Deal for…
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