https://megadose.ai/i/2d14a702-43d6-4891-b614-a6dfc867ef92 Megadose en 2026-10-14T14:00:41+00:00 AI infrastructure startup Modal raised a $750M Series D led by Accel at a $15.75B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $1.2B, and passes $1B ARR (Chris Metinko/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/80636966-fc10-4672-9539-aeb077de27ca Megadose en 2026-10-14T13:35:00+00:00 Jensen Huang announces $2B in new European Nvidia investments, including in French startups Doctolib and Genesis AI, adding to $8B invested over the past year (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/43dc4993-a095-4d36-bc04-c947baba7051 Megadose en 2026-10-14T13:30:02+00:00 Google plans to acquire power from AEP's Cheyenne Fuel Cell under a 20-year deal; AEP will invest ~$4B in the Wyoming fuel cell project using Bloom's tech (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/b664f157-6b50-494c-b955-b9191ae42dd1 Megadose en 2026-10-14T13:25:01+00:00 Booking Holdings launches Vayo, a travel startup that uses AI agents to track booking confirmations, price drops, and more, with a planned $100M investment (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) https://megadose.ai/i/ac83ded9-d449-4f08-8ffa-36c973046b38 Megadose en 2026-10-14T12:40:01+00:00 Harmonic Security, which uses small language models to inspect employee interactions with AI tools, raised a $50M Series B, taking its total funding to $76M (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) https://megadose.ai/i/71068e72-f717-4d68-b2be-bff608d50da2 Megadose en 2026-10-14T12:00:53+00:00 Bengaluru-based Scimplify, which uses AI agents and 500+ partner manufacturing facilities to accelerate chemical production, raised $25M led by Hitachi Ventures (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/2863a795-ca0d-44f3-be99-e35dc7271ad6 Megadose en 2026-10-14T11:00:00+00:00 Scimplify raises $25M to challenge China’s grip on critical materials with AI https://megadose.ai/i/1ab94934-d2df-4947-9e3f-607ade4b8c7a Megadose en 2026-10-14T09:45:01+00:00 CoreWeave says it is targeting insurers' "unlimited" capital, as the AI cloud provider seeks cheaper ways to fund the tens of billions it is spending on chips (Ryan McMorrow/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/e21674ce-cbfe-48af-bc64-15411dcccd94 Megadose en 2026-10-14T06:00:35+00:00 ASML says it cannot fully meet AI-driven demand for its chipmaking tools in 2027 and 2028, and is seeing "strong interest" in orders for 2029 and 2030 (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/bbd9fb65-1a96-48ec-9241-7b96db37fc9b Megadose en 2026-10-14T05:40:01+00:00 ASML reports Q3 net sales of €11.66B, vs. €11.72B est., a €4.96B net profit, vs. €4.1B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €43B-€44B to €44B-€45B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/bd4b5ace-7716-4bf8-b2e2-7dbd7938e4a6 Megadose en 2026-10-14T03:10:01+00:00 Delaware-based Causa Prima, which develops an agent-to-agent AI platform for managing B2B payments, resolving billing disputes, and more, raised a $20M seed (Camila Grigera Naón/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/4619715b-7a2e-40b3-9312-4dd2f98a987e Megadose en 2026-10-14T02:00:14+00:00 Google DeepMind and Singapore Government announce new AI tool to protect citizens against scams https://megadose.ai/i/b479f873-1606-4b34-89e2-2a80394691d2 Megadose en 2026-10-14T00:05:01+00:00 Albert Invent, which launched an AI model trained on chemical patents and data about 15M molecules, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $340M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes) https://megadose.ai/i/a852f3fb-8868-40e3-9efa-86e798555d22 Megadose en 2026-10-13T23:20:01+00:00 Sources: OpenAI is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits, which finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software; founded in 2012, it has 40+ employees (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/7ac8fd31-3811-4bc9-9531-9549885d3cb0 Megadose en 2026-10-13T23:13:23+00:00 Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine https://megadose.ai/i/959d88c2-db56-4c3f-93bd-6f86bb3953f5 Megadose en 2026-10-13T19:50:31+00:00 Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add https://megadose.ai/i/1bbe147e-a097-4fc6-8a9f-df1426917ba9 Megadose en 2026-10-13T19:50:01+00:00 Sources: self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition has received investment offers that would value it at $30B+, up from $15B in June (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/631c7a94-78c3-474f-b354-0f77d3bca5fb Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:59:57+00:00 ChunkAct: Action Chunking for Agentic Robotics https://megadose.ai/i/15086e36-482d-45c6-b715-6312a0382aae Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:59:52+00:00 What Matters in Quality-Aware VLA Pretraining: A Benchmark and Empirical Study https://megadose.ai/i/2d268290-f52c-4a9f-9147-ef79520a9443 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:59:51+00:00 Tev: Scaling Long-Horizon Agentic Environments with Dense Progress Rewards https://megadose.ai/i/04b8a5c1-8bee-4932-a16b-04703b90149b Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:59:32+00:00 DoubtLess: Training-Free Contrastive Decoding for Efficient Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/d8ff4c5f-7f62-4db5-830f-171db8218f7b Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:59:31+00:00 AesCode: Aesthetic Code Generation with Decoupled Cross-Modal Rewards https://megadose.ai/i/bb7470a8-b523-42ff-8f83-4c9bf69a29f4 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:59:31+00:00 Hybrid Reasoning Agents https://megadose.ai/i/5fcd4418-3d8b-4a6a-b605-fe420fa8abc6 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:58:57+00:00 Two Clocks: Why Larger Rollout Batches Learn Slower but Fail on Schedule in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards https://megadose.ai/i/d06651a8-30e1-467f-a706-5afa4fd53c7a Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:57:51+00:00 The Last Remote Sensing Model Built by Humans? Casting Any Earth Observation Task as Recursive Self-Improvement https://megadose.ai/i/031545be-d4b2-468d-b242-5667022096f0 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:57:18+00:00 LIBERO-RIG: A Hardware-Setup Robustness Benchmark for Vision-Language-Action Models https://megadose.ai/i/25d910f6-33fb-4bdf-a578-786ca6a6ffa8 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:55:52+00:00 Sources: Decagon, which offers AI customer service agents and was last valued at $4.5B, hired a bank and is in early talks with buyers, including ServiceNow (Katie Roof/Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/5c8413e2-8425-4aa0-a655-77c7e77bfc11 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:55:14+00:00 RoboSimStudio: An Interactive Toolkit for Rapid Real2Sim of Robot Manipulation Tasks https://megadose.ai/i/346cefc2-0143-4937-adef-8a631b9ecfd7 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:54:22+00:00 OmniCompass: A Holistic Benchmark for Omni-Modal Video Grounding and Understanding https://megadose.ai/i/120d4079-928d-45df-82b9-84f8ccc3ae29 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:50:18+00:00 Back-Translation Still Matters: Leveraging Monolingual Data for Low-Resource Machine Translation with LLMs https://megadose.ai/i/e9ed580d-326b-458e-bab5-1646824c8f5d Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:50:01+00:00 Pluto Security, which monitors AI agents and vibe-coded apps, exits stealth with $42M, including a $34M Series A, and says it has hit $2M+ in ARR since April (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/72a44171-3796-4564-9334-e543c7d7ce8e Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:48:49+00:00 Self-Evolving Agent Harness https://megadose.ai/i/dd9fd07e-8518-484e-9980-851f6810a06f Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:46:33+00:00 Depth Memory https://megadose.ai/i/af0f8e04-f9cb-419b-a919-73e5f0d13cb0 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:46:25+00:00 SkillScaffold: Scaffolding Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Policy-Adaptive Skill Credit Assignment and Selective Injection https://megadose.ai/i/99ce10f4-7094-43ac-b2c4-5da7b50fe49c Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:40:20+00:00 SEAR: Self-Evolving Agentic Robotics https://megadose.ai/i/03586da9-6f4a-40df-9d9b-7e3c12341f8a Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:36:51+00:00 Where Do LLM Ensemble Gains Come From? Decomposing Candidate Value, Diversity, and Aggregation https://megadose.ai/i/d31344de-c5a6-4885-b623-f50a0f4daf09 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:35:27+00:00 Pack Light, CarryOn: Building Object-Oriented Context for Long-Horizon Agents https://megadose.ai/i/25c18088-142d-4c59-8134-6d4c3a3b1111 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:35:02+00:00 Google says users with a standard account can now build personal Android apps for free in AI Studio and will be able to share them with friends in coming months (Artie Beaty/ZDNET) https://megadose.ai/i/b3c2686d-588d-4220-9e75-009259f1cb88 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:34:34+00:00 BLADE: Auditing Information Use for Failure Attribution in LLM Multi-Agent Systems https://megadose.ai/i/ab9c6ca3-2b1b-4c21-bd24-51c7cfdd692f Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:31:09+00:00 Jeva: System One Models from First Principles https://megadose.ai/i/e5c6a306-90cc-4d7a-a1d5-d9c32d2101d6 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:27:23+00:00 Rubrics from the Task, Verdicts from Evidence: Pointwise Rubric Rewards with Tool-Augmented Judges https://megadose.ai/i/e14ebfcb-b794-4df7-b10c-f67cbabc01f0 Megadose en 2026-10-13T17:22:58+00:00 Beyond the Verdict: Agentic Code Judging with Verifiable Feedback