Monday, June 29, 2026

The day in AI

The KeyNews.AI edition for Monday, June 29, 2026 leads with “Samsung and SK Hynix plan $590 billion chip investment as AI demand sends memory prices soaring”, reported by The Decoder and ranked 92 out of 100 by KeyRank. Also in the top 10: “South Korea launches $584B chip manufacturing initiative with Samsung, SK hynix”, “South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘ RAMageddon’”, “AI wakes up the sleepy US power sector” and “Straiker lands $64M to defend enterprise AI agents from attack”. Across the 5 desks, 121 stories cleared the KeyRank bar, with Tools the busiest at 39 and Work next at 39. Further down the list: “AI software development startup 8090 nabs $135M funding round”, “South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots” and “Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role”.