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Tech & AI Daily — Wednesday, July 8, 2026
SOXL surges +5.25% as dip buyers return to chip stocks, but Nvidia's ~$1 trillion market-cap wipeout keeps the broader semi and growth trade fragile. • OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family — Sol, Terra, and Luna — clears US government review and is set for full launch this week, the first frontier model approved under the new federal oversight regime. • SambaNova raises $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation just five months after its last mega-round, signaling serious investor appetite for non-Nvidia AI inference chips. • Microsoft is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic in favor of cheaper in-house…
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