Robot Deployment Ledger
Which automotive, logistics, and industrial brands are deploying which humanoid/robot makers — contracts, pilots, and order sizes. The only running record of it.
| Headline | Company | Region | Date | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UBTECH Confirms September Small-Batch Delivery of U1 Humanoid Series to End Customers | — | China & Restricted | 16 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Agility Robotics Selects Nyobolt as Ultra-Fast Charging Battery Technology Partner for Digit 5 | Agility Robotics | U.S. & Allies | 15 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Unitree Humanoid Robots Train for Shelf-Stacking at Føtex Store in Lyngby | Unitree | China & Restricted | 14 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| UBTECH and Xiamen C&D Sign Strategic Cooperation Agreement for Humanoid Robot Scenario Deployment | — | China & Restricted | 14 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| GMO AIR Opens Domestic Handling and Pre-Orders for Unitree G1+ Humanoid in Japan | Unitree | China & Restricted | 13 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Shanghai Launches New-Generation Smart Manufacturing Action Targeting 8,000 Humanoid Robots in Factories by 2028 | — | China & Restricted | 13 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen Sign Strategic Cooperation on Embodied Intelligence Humanoids for Factory Logistics | — | — | 10 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Agility restates more than $300 million in Digit 5 orders as of May 2026 | Agility Robotics | U.S. & Allies | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Figure announces commercial agreement to deploy humanoids at Catalyst Brands’ Reno distribution center | Figure | U.S. & Allies | 3 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Agility Robotics and FORT Robotics Sign MOU on Digit 5 Safety; Predecessors Past 65,000 Hours at Schaeffler, GXO, and Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada | Agility Robotics | U.S. & Allies | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Boston Dynamics opens Robotics Metaplant Application Center at Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant America; Group plans 25,000 Atlas units and a U.S. plant rated for 30,000 robots a year | Boston Dynamics | U.S. & Allies | 21 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Figure 03 arrives in Hall 52 at BMW Group Plant Spartanburg for a first logistics-sequencing demonstration; Figure 02 cited at 30,000 cars | Figure | U.S. & Allies | 30 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| GXO Logistics and Agility Robotics sign a multi-year RaaS agreement to deploy Digit humanoids at a SPANX facility | Agility Robotics | U.S. & Allies | 27 Jun 2024 | Read More → |
Chip War — Control
The rules: every export control, Entity List add, licence, and counter-control reshaping advanced computing — read from the primary, including the non-English ones.
| Headline | Company | Region | Date | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EU Council Decision (CFSP) 2026/2279 designates 1,569 Russian military-industrial suppliers | — | Europe / DACH | 12 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| China and EU Form 16-Point Consensus at Beijing Trade and Investment Consultation Meeting | — | China & Restricted | 10 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| MOFCOM Announcement No. 44 Opens Anti-Dumping Investigation into EU-Origin p-Nitrotoluene | — | China & Restricted | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| MOFCOM Comments on Reported Franco-German Request for Stronger EU Trade-Defense Tools | — | Europe / DACH | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Japan Implements New Sanctions Under Foreign Exchange Act: 42 Entities and Individuals, 35 Vessels Affected | Garantex Europe OU | U.S. & Allies | 5 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly, Tommy Shad English Charged with Conspiring to Smuggle Export-Controlled AI Servers to China via Thailand | — | China & Restricted | 3 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5 and restates more than $300 million in milestone-contingent orders as of May 2026 | Agility Robotics | U.S. & Allies | 15 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Figure announces $3.5 billion Nscale partnership for up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs, Barstow deployment targeted for H2 2027 | Figure | U.S. & Allies | 3 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| BIS Removes Two Hong Kong Addresses for Arrow Electronics (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. From the Entity List, Effective 21 August 2026 | Arrow Electronics | U.S. & Allies | 24 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| BIS Removes the UAE From Country Groups D:3 and D:4, Adds A:5, and Limits License-Free Advanced Computing to Named Parties in Supplement No. 8 | — | U.S. & Allies | 10 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| BIS settles with Robert Bosch GmbH for $36,184,680 over unlicensed MEMS and software shipments to Huawei | Robert Bosch Gmbh | — | 17 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| BIS Guidance of May 31, 2026: License Still Required for Advanced Computing Items to Country Group D:5 and Macau-Headquartered Entities | — | — | 31 May 2026 | Read More → |
| BIS moves the authorized IC-designer trigger and approved-designer application deadline from April 13, 2026 to December 31, 2026 (91 FR 17851, RIN 0694-AJ98) | — | — | 9 Apr 2026 | Read More → |
| BIS final rule 91 FR 1684 moves NVIDIA H200 and AMD MI325X U.S. exports to China and Macau from presumption of denial to case-by-case review | Nvidia | — | 15 Jan 2026 | Read More → |
| BIS final rule 91 FR 1684 moves NVIDIA H200 and AMD MI325X U.S. exports to China and Macau from presumption of denial to case-by-case review | Nvidia | — | 15 Jan 2026 | Read More → |
Chip War — Enforcement
The breaches: BIS settlements, DOJ export indictments, OFAC actions, and customs seizures — who broke the controls and what it cost them. Every row cites the government order.
| Headline | Respondent | Penalty | Region | Date | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Suvorov Extradited to NDNY, Charged in Complaint with Conspiracy to Export Dual-Use Microelectronics to Russia via Hong Kong Fronts | — | — | U.S. & Allies | 15 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| New Taipei Prosecutors Indict 10 Over Alleged NCSIST-Fronted Diversion of TI and 亞諾德 Military Chips | — | — | China & Restricted | 8 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Treasury Issues First OISP Civil Penalty: $200,000 Against Amidi, LLC Over Noematrix Notice | Amidi | $200,000 | U.S. & Allies | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
Illicit-Finance & Crypto Enforcement
The breach layer of crypto: DPRK and Lazarus thefts, OFAC mixer and exchange designations, DOJ seizures, and sanctions-evasion rails — every row from the government order.
| Headline | Party | Penalty | Region | Date | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Suvorov Extradited to NDNY, Charged in Complaint with Conspiracy to Export Dual-Use Microelectronics to Russia via Hong Kong Fronts | — | — | U.S. & Allies | 15 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Japan Implements New Sanctions Under Foreign Exchange Act: 42 Entities and Individuals, 35 Vessels Affected | Garantex Europe OU | — | U.S. & Allies | 5 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
Compute Ledger
The power and physical buildout behind AI: power-purchase agreements, utility and PUC filings, interconnection-queue positions, and grid constraints — from the primary filings. The energy chokepoint, tabulated.
| Headline | Company | Date | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Venture Global Enters Power and Grid Frame Agreements with GE Vernova and Baker Hughes for Up to 16 720 MW Power Islands | — | 16 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Mishustin: Government will decide when only national foundation models may be used for critical infrastructure; 42 data centres, investment exceeding 280 billion roubles | — | 8 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| TeraWulf Executes Amended Kentucky Power Agreements, Raising Muskie Contracted Capacity to 1 GW | Terawulf | 8 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Black Hills Signs Definitive Agreements to Serve Google’s Planned Cheyenne Data Center Through 2048 | Black Hills | 8 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Google and Constellation Announce 20-Year PPA Funding Uprates at 11 Nuclear Units, Adding 890 MW to PJM | Constellation Energy | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Constellation and Google agree a 20-year PPA for 890 MW of nuclear uprates in PJM | Constellation Energy | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Google confirms a Constellation PPA for 890 MW of PJM nuclear uprates | Constellation Energy | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Applied Digital Declares Building 2 Phase 2 Ready for Service at Polaris Forge 1, Adding 75 MW and Lifting Ellendale to 250 MW | Applied Digital | 2 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Amazon and Constellation enter long-term agreement covering 690 MW at Calvert Cliffs, including 190 MW of new nuclear capacity expected online 2030–2032 | Amazon | 2 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| MPSC Approves DTE Electric–Google Special Contracts in Case U-22058, With a 20-Year Term, 80% Minimum Billing, and Google-Funded 1,600 MW of Renewables | 2 Oct 2026 | Read More → | |
| Grigorenko panel sets 2027–2030 AI benchmarks for Russia’s national plan | — | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| OpenAI publishes GPT-6.1 Sol system card addendum, rates model Critical for cyber | — | 29 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| China to fold AI, drones and remote sensing into 2026-2030 cultural heritage plan | — | 29 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Nvidia and Meta lock down the agent stack as ElevenLabs ships a voice model | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| CAS Ties Schools, Labs and Talent on One Track, Plans National S&T Think Tank | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Nvidia rolls out open platform to contain AI agents from test bench to production | Nvidia | 28 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Nvidia engineers put agent containment in silicon, not in the model | Nvidia | 28 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Li Qiang Meeting Speeds ‘Six Networks,’ Including Computing-Power Grids | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| China Issues First National Battery Plan, Targets Initial Large-Scale All-Solid-State Use by 2030 | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| CAS Maps 2026-30 Push Into Chips, AI, Quantum, Brain Interfaces and Fusion | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Beijing’s Monday AI Drop: U.S. Talks, National Compute, Academy Models | — | 28 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Russia Says Locally Trained AI Models See Broad Domestic Use | — | 27 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| China Respects U.S. ‘Super Intelligence’ Wording After Xi Visit | — | 27 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Akamai locks $11.6 billion Anthropic cloud deal, issues warrant for up to 5% | — | 26 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Harvest Now Decrypt Later (HNDL): A CISA-Aligned Post-Quantum Cryptography Risk Briefing | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| China pledges easier market access, stronger digital trade rules at Hangzhou expo | — | 25 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Meta paper uses RL to match how often models produce certain outputs | — | 24 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| AI Coalition releases predicted structures for 2,800-plus viral protein complexes | — | 24 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Gartner tells London CISOs AI agents, quantum clocks and deepfakes are now operating problems | — | 23 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Nvidia Test Finds AI Coding Fixes Often Break Once A Live Server Starts | — | 23 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Buist v. Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI & Google: Class Action Alleges Horizontal Agreement to Slow Frontier AI Capability Improvements (N.D. Cal. 3:26-cv-10693) | OpenAI | 22 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| IBM Connects First Modular Cryogenic Systems in Milestone Toward Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing | — | 19 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| Socionext to Leverage Intel 18A-P for Custom AI and HPC SoCs, Beginning with High-Performance Compute Chiplet | — | 18 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| OpenAI Secures Approximately 8 Gigawatts-IT at PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike County, Ohio | — | 17 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| NVIDIA Secures Exclusive AI Compute Role at SB Energy’s PORTS-Pike Campus in Ohio; OpenAI Named Customer for Up to 8 IT-GW | — | 17 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| NVIDIA Details How Nations Are Deploying Sovereign AI for Strategic Priorities | Nvidia | 7 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| TeraWulf Announces 20-Year Lease With Anthropic At Justified Data Campus | Anthropic | 7 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| NVIDIA Introduces Revenue-Sharing Model to Unlock AI Compute at Scale | Nvidia | 2 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| NVIDIA and Partners Commit to $500B US AI Infrastructure | Nvidia | 2 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| Governor Abbott Awards $24.2M TSIF Grant to FormFactor for Probe Card Facility | — | 2 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| Tesla Q2 2026 Production, Deliveries & Deployments: 451,758 Vehicles Produced, 480,126 Delivered; 13.5 GWh Energy Storage | — | 2 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Cloud Launches Major AI and Infrastructure Push at Inaugural Africa Summit | — | 2 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| SoftBank Completes $10 Billion Second Tranche Investment in OpenAI via Vision Fund 2 | — | 2 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| Silicom Secures First AI Inference Production Order; 2026 Revenue Guidance Lifted to Multi-Million Dollars | — | 30 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| BrainChip Ships Production AKD1500 Neuromorphic Processors to Defense, Wearable Customers | — | 30 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Palantir Leverages NVIDIA Nemotron Open Models for U.S. Government Intelligent Engine | Nvidia | 29 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Firefly Aerospace Successfully Operates NVIDIA Jetson in Lunar Orbit for First Time | Nvidia | 29 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Chevron Signs 20-Year Power Agreement with Microsoft for Massive West Texas Data Center Project | Chevron | 27 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| BCG: Token-Based Competition Has Arrived — Intelligence Is Now Abundant, Advantage Goes to Those Who Apply It Best | BCG | 23 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| McKinsey: Data Readiness Now the Primary Constraint on Scaling AI Pilots | Mckinsey | 23 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| HPE AI Factory with NVIDIA Adds Vera CPU, Agent Toolkit, and Full Confidential Computing for Production Agentic AI | Nvidia | 18 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| NVIDIA Ecosystem Brings Causal AI, Real-Time Bidding, and Agentic Workflows to Cannes Lions | Nvidia | 18 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Pennymac Expands AWS Strategic Agreement to Deploy Enterprise-Grade AI and Commercialize Plaisse Servicing Platform | AWS | 18 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Zelis Selects AWS as Preferred Cloud Provider to Accelerate AI-Powered Healthcare Financial Modernization | AWS | 18 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Southwest Airlines Taps AWS as Preferred Cloud Provider, Targets AI- and Agent-Enabled Architecture by 2028 | AWS | 18 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Aehr Test Systems Receives Follow-On FOX-XP Wafer-Level Burn-In Order from Major Silicon Photonics Customer for Hyperscale Data Center Optical Interconnects | — | 17 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Dell’Oro: Data Center IT Semiconductor & Component Revenue Surged 116% YoY in Q1 | Dell'Oro | 17 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Launches TPU Developer Hub | 17 Jun 2026 | Read More → | |
| AMD and Rackspace Sign Deal for 30 MW Phased AMD AI Compute Deployment | AMD | 16 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Equinix Expands Cisco + NVIDIA Secure AI Factory Deployment Across Globe | Cisco | 16 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Missouri | Amazon | 15 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Microsoft/OpenAI ecosystem continues massive NVIDIA GPU intake | — | 13 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Cloud expanding co-engineered infrastructure with NVIDIA | — | 13 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Meta deepens NVIDIA partnership | Nvidia | 13 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| xAI’s Colossus Supercluster Now Operational | — | 13 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
Model Releases
A dated record of frontier and open-weight model releases — who shipped what, when, under which licence, from which lab and country. The log, not a leaderboard; weighted to open-weight and Chinese releases.
| Headline | Company | Date | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alibaba Unveils Qwen Glasses N1 Series at Hangzhou Event with Prices Starting at 2,999 Yuan | — | 13 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to ChatGPT, Treated as High in Cyber and Biology | OpenAI | 8 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| DARPA Advances Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM, and IonQ to Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage C | Microsoft | 8 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Mishustin: Government will decide when only national foundation models may be used for critical infrastructure; 42 data centres, investment exceeding 280 billion roubles | — | 8 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Reflection Introduces Beam, a 501B Open-Weight Model, Apache 2.0 Weights Later This Month | Reflection | 8 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Mistral opens a public preview of Mistral Large 4, weights due this month | — | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Aleph Alpha Releases Kolibri for Public Administration and Industry | Aleph Alpha | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2221 identifies five European Defence Projects of Common Interest under Regulation (EU) 2025/2643 | — | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Huawei rebrands XMAGE as 华为睿影 XMAGE and ties Mate 90 Pro Max 典藏版 and Mate 90 RS 非凡大师 to Kirin 9050 Pro, with a lab claim of 37% and 62% imaging gains | Huawei | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Huawei Lists Mate 90 Series Sale at 12:08 on 1 October 2026, From 5,999 Yuan | Huawei | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Xi ties innovation-driven growth to a sound start for the 15th Five-Year Plan | — | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| DeepSeek’s GitHub list puts a plugin harness ahead of its model repos | DeepSeek | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| TileLang 0.1.15 adds a Huawei Ascend 950 backend for Python kernel code | DeepSeek | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| DeepSeek releases DeepSelect, a TopK kernel for sparse attention and sampling | DeepSeek | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| DeepSeek ships Ascend 950 attention kernels and drops Hopper from FlashMLA | DeepSeek | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| DeepSeek adds Huawei Ascend backend to TileKernels | — | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| CNNIC launches ATI, an AI agent identity layer built on DNS and PKI | — | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| DeepSeek Releases DeepEP-Ascend for Huawei Ascend 950 MoE Training | — | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| DeepSeek Releases DeepGEMM-Ascend Kernel Library for Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs | — | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Cohere launches Embed 5 embedding models | Cohere | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Musk: SpaceX aiming for Fable- and GPT-6-level model in two to three months | — | 24 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Palantir Adds OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to AIP | — | 24 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Palantir adds xAI’s Grok 4.7 to AIP | — | 24 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Google starts rolling new Connected Apps into Gemini | — | 23 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| OpenAI Launches Independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI After Internal Model Resolves Navier–Stokes and 100+ Open Problems | OpenAI | 21 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| xAI Ships Grok 4.7: Longer-Horizon Coding Model at $2/$6 with New Safeguard Stack | OpenAI | 21 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Lightspeed Launches AI Command Center™ — Conversational AI Built Into Dealer Management System | — | 18 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| Stratus Launches Stratus Labs AI Arm and Debuts Agentic Spooling Tools at Innovate 2026 | — | 18 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| Anthropic Makes Auto Mode the Default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team Plans | — | 14 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Cloud Bolsters Oracle Integration with GA Cloning for Autonomous AI Databases | — | 16 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| Windows Insider Announces New Builds for July 6, 2026 | Microsoft | 7 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| xAI Makes Grok Build Available in Railway Sandboxes | — | 2 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| Microsoft Launches Frontier Company with $2.5B Investment and 6,000 Embedded Experts | Microsoft | 2 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| NSA, DEVCOM Army Research Office Launch QuantumEAGLe Initiative | — | 30 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Releases Nano Banana 2 Lite to GA and Gemini Omni Flash to Public Preview | — | 30 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Booz Allen Hamilton, OpenAI Announce Partnership for Mission-Ready AI Deployment | OpenAI | 29 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Workspace Weekly Recap (June 26, 2026): Incremental Exports, Group Security, and Classroom Read-Along Headline Meaningful Updates | 27 Jun 2026 | Read More → | |
| Microsoft Marketplace Floods with 275 New Offers (June 26, 2026): AI, Compliance, and Industry Solutions Dominate | Microsoft | 27 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| BCG: Agentic AI Shifts Transformation from Central Programs to Team-Led Workflow Redesign | BCG | 19 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Workspace Adds Gemini Classroom Integration, Longer Veo Videos, Enhanced AI Avatars, and New Admin Chat Controls | Gemini | 18 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| McKinsey: AI Ad Economy Shifts: 75% of Advertisers Expect Spend Rise | Mckinsey | 17 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| AWS Drops Graviton5 EC2 GA, Gemma 4 Bedrock Availability, FinOps Agent Preview, and CLI v1 Maintenance Mode Signals | Amazon | 15 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Mastercard Launches Agent Pay for Machines | — | 12 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| ChatGPT’s Codex Adds Rate Limit Banking and Developer Mode | OpenAI | 12 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| xAI Launches Grok Build Plugin Marketplace | xAI | 11 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| SKY Co., Ltd. has deployed HPE Private Cloud AI to accelerate secure AI development. | — | 10 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
Frontier Capital
Strategic and sovereign capital into frontier AI, chips, and robotics — Gulf and state-linked funds, cross-border strategic stakes, and the cheques that intersect export controls. Not a VC database; the geopolitically-loaded money.
| Headline | Company | Date | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| MIIT Releases AI Empowering New Industrialization High-Value Scenarios Navigation Map Covering 1,000+ Scenarios Across 20 Sub-Sectors | — | 16 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| European Parliament Approves €115 Million AGILE Defence Innovation Programme | — | 10 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Anthropic Commits $150 Million Over Three Years to Genesis Mission for Claude Access | Anthropic | 10 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| DOE Announces 12 Phase II Genesis Mission Awards Totaling $159 Million for Super Intelligence Science | — | 9 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| OFAC Designates Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades Member Saleem Abdallah Saleem al-Zaq and France-Based Facilitators in Multi-Year $2 Million Financing Network | — | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| PIF and US EXIM Sign MoU for Up to $15 Billion Export Credit Financing | — | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Dutch Jetten Cabinet sends the Rijksbrede Quantumstrategie to the Tweede Kamer | Quantum Delta NL | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Anthropic Commits $100 Million to Claude Frontier Academy Training 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by End of 2027 | Anthropic | 5 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Barclays scales Claude Code to 50% of developers by end-2026, majority in 2027 | Anthropic | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| AIxCrypto becomes FF EAI Robotics, ticker FFR | FF EAI Robotics | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Qatar Investment Authority Joins Crusoe $3.9 Billion Series F at $30.9 Billion Valuation | — | 17 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Qatar Investment Authority Joins Positron AI $875 Million Series C at $5 Billion Valuation | Positron AI | 10 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| PIF-Led Consortium Completes Acquisition of Electronic Arts on 4 August 2026 | Electronic Arts | 4 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| MGX Confirms Final Close of Fund I at $49 Billion, Above $45 Billion Target | MGX | 1 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| Standard Bots Hits Unicorn Status with $200M Series C at $1B Valuation | Standard Bots | 11 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| NEURA Robotics Raises Up to $1.4 Billion to Build the Infrastructure Layer for Physical AI | Neura Robotics | 11 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Arcee AI Inks Multi-Million Dollar Exclusive Deal With Hugging Face | Arcee AI | 10 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
Tech Deathwatch
The frontier death record: deprecated AI models, sunset API versions, killed AI products and features, and shuttered AI/robotics firms — each with its official kill date. A live, dated record, not a retrospective graveyard.
| Headline | Company | Kill date | Date | Coverage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google schedules October 22, 2026 shutdown of gemini-omni-flash-preview and three Veo 3.1 preview endpoints | 22 Oct 2026 | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → | |
| Google lists a November 17, 2026 shutdown for five Gemini TTS and Live preview models | Gemini | 17 Nov 2026 | 7 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| Google schedules gemini-2.5-flash-image for shutdown on October 2, 2026, and names gemini-3.1-flash-image-preview as the replacement | 2 Oct 2026 | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → | |
| OpenAI lists gpt-5.4-cyber for API removal on October 1, 2026, and names no successor model | OpenAI | 1 Oct 2026 | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| OpenAI schedules gpt-5.4-cyber for API removal on October 1, 2026, with no named successor | OpenAI | 1 Oct 2026 | 1 Oct 2026 | Read More → |
| OFAC posts Sept. 30 SDN hash values as list files shift to Sanctions List Service | — | 30 Sep 2026 | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Cohere launches Embed 5 embedding models | Cohere | 30 Sep 2026 | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Google deprecates Gemini Omni Flash preview endpoint | Gemini | 30 Sep 2026 | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| AWS retires Nova Reel video model on Bedrock | AWS | 30 Sep 2026 | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| AWS Retires Nova Canvas Image Model on Bedrock | AWS | 30 Sep 2026 | 30 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Nvidia retires OpenShell Community image catalog as runtime goes first-party | Nvidia | 23 Sep 2026 | 28 Sep 2026 | Read More → |
| Maestro Announces Developer API Sunset Effective September 18, 2026 | Maestro | 18 Sep 2026 | 18 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| Adobe Updates Generative AI Partner Model Retirement List (as of August 18, 2026) | Adobe | 18 Aug 2026 | 18 Aug 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Shuts Down Three Imagen 4 Models on August 17, 2026 | 17 Aug 2026 | 17 Aug 2026 | Read More → | |
| OpenAI Enacts New Self-Serve Fine-Tuning Restrictions Effective July 2, 2026 | OpenAI | 7 May 2026 | 2 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| Sony Announces End of Physical Disc Production for New PlayStation Games in January 2028 | Sony | 31 Dec 2027 | 1 Jul 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Shuts Down Older Veo Video Models Today; Migrate to Veo 3.1 Preview or GA | Veo | 30 Jun 2026 | 30 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Oracle Drops Backend for Microservices and AI 2.1.0 | Oracle | 26 Jun 2026 | 27 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Retires Two Gemini Image Preview Models on June 25, 2026 | Gemini | 25 Jun 2026 | 25 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Microsoft Partner Center Issues June 2026 Updates for Partners | Azure | 25 Jun 2026 | 25 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Snowflake Begins Phased Removal of Legacy Worksheets and Dashboards from Snowsight Effective June 22, 2026 (BCR-2260) | Snowflake | 22 Jun 2026 | 22 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Firebase Studio Sunset: New Workspace Creation Disabled June 22, 2026; Full Shutdown Set for March 22, 2027 | 22 Mar 2027 | 22 Jun 2026 | Read More → | |
| U.S. Commerce Department Orders Anthropic to Seek Approval for Foreign National Access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models | Anthropic | 12 Jun 2026 | 19 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| OpenAI Sunsets GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.3-Codex in Codex for ChatGPT Subscribers | OpenAI | 2 Jun 2026 | 18 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Sunsets Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE Extensions Effective June 18 | Gemini | 18 Jun 2026 | 18 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Google SecOps Deprecates Legacy Data Export API and Related Endpoints Effective June 18 | 18 Jun 2026 | 18 Jun 2026 | Read More → | |
| ChatGPT Adds Scheduled Tasks Feature, Sunsets Pulse | OpenAI | 17 Jun 2026 | 18 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Google Removes Gemini 3.5 Flash Feature Toggle in Enterprise | Gemini | 16 Jun 2026 | 16 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
| Anthropic Enforces Hard Retirement for Two Claude 4 Models Today — Sonnet-4-20250514 and Opus-4-20250514 Cut Off June 15, 2026 | Anthropic | 15 Jun 2026 | 15 Jun 2026 | Read More → |
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