https://megadose.ai/i/103f66f1-f5a6-4bec-b493-5106416c361c Megadose en 2026-07-14T10:10:58+00:00 Sources: DeepSeek is in preliminary talks with investors about raising new funds at a ~$71B valuation, after raising ~$7B at a ~$52B valuation at the end of May (Zijing Wu/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/9ccb5bab-4629-40ba-9cac-42bcf60e3ac9 Megadose en 2026-07-14T06:25:43+00:00 Researchers detail "context bombing", where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) https://megadose.ai/i/84b315d8-4659-4f00-b15d-cbc1a3a750b5 Megadose en 2026-07-14T04:45:01+00:00 Sources: Nvidia intensified due diligence and cut its authorized AI chip customers in Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan by 50%+ to prevent China diversions (Zijing Wu/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/870f70a4-a7a3-48da-8c68-f5f7a937a51c Megadose en 2026-07-14T03:20:02+00:00 In the wake of China's "embodied AI" push, there's an urgency among China's 100+ humanoid startups to launch IPOs; LimX Dynamics raises $200M in a pre-IPO round (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/44677908-39bc-413a-8fcc-75804d798447 Megadose en 2026-07-14T00:45:01+00:00 Singapore-based and Alibaba-backed video generation startup PixVerse says it closed a Series C extension to raise $439M total for the round, valuing it at $2B+ (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/cee0c46b-ea2d-4e2c-ada6-ce5637d65883 Megadose en 2026-07-14T00:00:00+00:00 Video generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B https://megadose.ai/i/9d6d9d6a-8076-4eb3-9be5-a55172526e5f Megadose en 2026-07-13T23:31:18+00:00 Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation https://megadose.ai/i/4fccf7c2-e11e-4bb4-876e-8ec1a2d01e86 Megadose en 2026-07-13T22:55:35+00:00 Apple releases the first public betas of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27, marking the public debut of the new Siri AI (Will Shanklin/Engadget) https://megadose.ai/i/52dcc7e6-83cd-4b10-8f44-0f6008799bc4 Megadose en 2026-07-13T17:58:50+00:00 Requential Coding: Pushing the Limits of Model Compression with Self-Generated Training Data https://megadose.ai/i/a3649b4d-0530-4290-982b-0ecb88d46625 Megadose en 2026-07-13T17:58:37+00:00 Metacognition in LLMs: Foundations, Progress, and Opportunities https://megadose.ai/i/6f9a164a-f811-4364-b379-7800f7ae56c9 Megadose en 2026-07-13T17:56:11+00:00 Invariant Learning Dynamics of Transformers in Inductive Reasoning Tasks https://megadose.ai/i/e3bc588f-c906-46a9-bd22-b8752959b6f6 Megadose en 2026-07-13T17:56:08+00:00 A Minimalist Retargeting-Guided Reinforcement Learning Recipe for Dexterous Manipulation https://megadose.ai/i/1f497b07-6132-4b00-bdbd-cb4ec01382e4 Megadose en 2026-07-13T17:55:19+00:00 Inside the Unfair Judge: A Mechanistic Interpretability Account of LLM-as-Judge Bias https://megadose.ai/i/54227c50-cead-4091-8200-42ae278b968f Megadose en 2026-07-13T17:49:10+00:00 Evidence-Backed Video Question Answering https://megadose.ai/i/ea91efaf-0a2f-4343-9fcd-c919c7747265 Megadose en 2026-07-13T17:38:22+00:00 AdvancedMathBench: A Benchmark Suite for Advanced Mathematical Proof Generation and Verification https://megadose.ai/i/7955e382-780e-4e18-9cb8-c0efcf964773 Megadose en 2026-07-13T17:13:09+00:00 MM-ToolSandBox: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Visual Tool-Calling Agents https://megadose.ai/i/2f950f94-1c3f-4341-9030-5ab0e411b441 Megadose en 2026-07-13T17:12:12+00:00 Relaxing Faithfulness with Intervention-Only Causal Discovery https://megadose.ai/i/70417196-429f-4cfa-b313-9f3157486303 Megadose en 2026-07-13T16:53:08+00:00 Encoder-Side Neuron Identification and Amplification for Acoustic Perception in Large Audio-Language Models https://megadose.ai/i/669ab834-6c24-4175-867c-46e910d22e35 Megadose en 2026-07-13T16:50:03+00:00 StoryTeller: Training-Free Narrative Grounding for Long-Form Audio Description https://megadose.ai/i/2e0abdcd-f746-44b8-be7c-21bb0a81b8e6 Megadose en 2026-07-13T16:48:03+00:00 An Exact Instrument for State Usage in Selective State-Space Models, and the Input-Driven Migration It Reveals https://megadose.ai/i/b322d89a-1bf8-4878-9ee1-60e7d53e67d4 Megadose en 2026-07-13T16:22:36+00:00 From Expressivity to Sample Complexity: Narrow Teachers for Transformers via C-RASP https://megadose.ai/i/e47290fc-7786-41c2-a06c-271413f4c314 Megadose en 2026-07-13T16:22:01+00:00 From Global to Factor-Wise Expert Composition in Discrete Diffusion Models https://megadose.ai/i/42cc3d37-a1c4-4b31-b560-1ed73d336b84 Megadose en 2026-07-13T16:08:46+00:00 When Local Monitors Miss Compositional Harm: Diagnosing Distributed Backdoors in Multi-Agent Systems https://megadose.ai/i/8a13581d-a50a-4322-8c53-f68f4b522995 Megadose en 2026-07-13T15:59:25+00:00 MET: Theory-Grounded and Culture-Aware Multilingual Moral Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/74d4ee6d-cf38-4b4d-8007-67150be04885 Megadose en 2026-07-13T15:58:34+00:00 NeuralActuator: Neural Actuation Modeling for Robot Dynamics and External Force Perception https://megadose.ai/i/cd9173e9-2e1c-46ae-b136-fd812f444040 Megadose en 2026-07-13T15:55:24+00:00 London-based Valarian, which allows companies to use US cloud providers for AI workloads but retain control of their data, raised a $50M Series A led by NEA (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/0b1092ab-99b2-48dd-ac57-32ad425eaac3 Megadose en 2026-07-13T15:46:11+00:00 Active Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning https://megadose.ai/i/19ba901b-3dcd-4060-9d26-f63f755469fa Megadose en 2026-07-13T15:40:20+00:00 Seattle-based Augmodo, whose AI-powered "Smartbadges" worn by employees track shelf inventory, raised $21M led by TQ Ventures at a $350M valuation (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire) https://megadose.ai/i/e5aec6d4-8fc6-4947-9210-99d5d45bead8 Megadose en 2026-07-13T15:35:29+00:00 VoxENES 2026: Benchmarking Generalization of Speech Spoofing Detectors Against LLM-Era TTS and Voice Conversion https://megadose.ai/i/8eac890c-8b3b-4d6a-be8c-5a19c43fbb9a Megadose en 2026-07-13T15:31:04+00:00 Agent Hacks Agent: Autoresearch for Production-Agent Red-Teaming https://megadose.ai/i/41aa467e-c942-4803-aff0-7099be0dc398 Megadose en 2026-07-13T15:29:24+00:00 Think Through a Bottleneck: Hourglass Reasoning for Rigorous Induction https://megadose.ai/i/7216c7b5-5fab-483b-9986-ea54baeeb4ac Megadose en 2026-07-13T15:20:51+00:00 RAGU: A Multi-Step GraphRAG Engine with a Compact Domain-Adapted LLM https://megadose.ai/i/c9e38a52-da0f-4ad5-9aa4-dc1d4388c0a5 Megadose en 2026-07-13T15:09:42+00:00 How to Tame Grokking: Representation Geometry as a Control Signal https://megadose.ai/i/64e4f1a3-4775-46ef-ae03-2d91b785599b Megadose en 2026-07-13T14:57:58+00:00 Xiaomi-Robotics-U0: Unified Embodied Synthesis with World Foundation Model https://megadose.ai/i/d71f6bd2-5f8c-42ca-a778-e22925835b1e Megadose en 2026-07-13T14:18:16+00:00 Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates https://megadose.ai/i/9501ec44-a1d1-46fa-a013-1f755f6e7c26 Megadose en 2026-07-13T12:56:21+00:00 Proxy Exploration and Reusable Guidance: A Modular LLM Post-Training Paradigm via Proxy-Guided Update Signals https://megadose.ai/i/289fd6c5-3fae-4fb2-9cdc-080f164c00ad Megadose en 2026-07-13T12:45:01+00:00 Anthropic hires Tom Blomfield, a Monzo co-founder and one of the biggest names in UK tech, to join its compute team; he is taking a leave of absence from YC (Robert Scammell/Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/9c26a7e7-469c-42b6-aae9-107418a731ce Megadose en 2026-07-13T12:40:17+00:00 LightMem-Ego: Your AI Memory for Everyday Life https://megadose.ai/i/ea9df53a-9fa3-4ceb-80b8-4b6c0ec42554 Megadose en 2026-07-13T11:00:33+00:00 Meta says it will spend an extra $40B on its 4,000-acre data center campus in Louisiana, aiming for 5GW+ of computing power, pushing the total cost beyond $250B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/60b7cfec-3f77-4a07-97d3-012891f178e7 Megadose en 2026-07-13T08:41:11+00:00 Munich-based defense tech startup Helsing raised a $1.8B Series E from Dragoneer, Iconiq, and others at an $18B valuation; Germany made a €270M order this year (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/bdf2db0d-bfa2-4939-ab9b-8eb26efc07e4 Megadose en 2026-07-13T04:45:02+00:00 A Taiwanese minister says TSMC plans two more advanced chip packaging plants in Chiayi Science Park, with all four expected to generate $9.35B+ in annual output (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/97fcd73b-a49d-47af-94d1-0467f24f7172 Megadose en 2026-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 Motion4Motion: Motion Transfer Across Subjects at Inference https://megadose.ai/i/11b1036a-02e5-4e53-acc9-1c4d694ed385 Megadose en 2026-07-12T18:04:41+00:00 Mechanistic interpretability researchers applying causality theory to LLMs