https://megadose.ai/i/455f058e-ece3-46af-ae5e-73d484f23f79 Megadose en 2026-08-17T20:00:55+00:00 Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B in late 2025 (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/fab0f8e1-2bf0-4819-833f-5abc6160cf54 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:30:01+00:00 Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more (Cursor) https://megadose.ai/i/fea564dd-a507-4b01-888c-a8ff535f0054 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:20:00+00:00 Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models (James Nani/Bloomberg Law) https://megadose.ai/i/30eb6073-73c9-495f-91e9-6522e4a4b8d7 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:00:50+00:00 Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (Tobias Burns/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/a85104c0-09ca-4671-bace-48f2ee1d7ce7 Megadose en 2026-08-17T16:15:12+00:00 Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud https://megadose.ai/i/a3972a5a-09f7-4f76-9c12-504f62dbdbe3 Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:28:44+00:00 Vorflux opens sign-ups for its automated coding platform https://megadose.ai/i/3614cf18-918d-41ba-9dd5-d58de5d9d829 Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:16:24+00:00 Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project https://megadose.ai/i/0e860dca-fa7b-4dbc-ae71-c7de5d837c94 Megadose en 2026-08-17T14:30:01+00:00 Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to $105B to support SB Energy's new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI; Nvidia invests $1.5B in SB Energy (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/643d3e20-8491-475f-bb7c-ac30b2478660 Megadose en 2026-08-17T14:00:36+00:00 ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) https://megadose.ai/i/23b84750-a4e8-4537-ab1d-4730b753172c Megadose en 2026-08-17T13:10:05+00:00 Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation https://megadose.ai/i/7c1781fc-b946-4fc0-a977-3f113683439c Megadose en 2026-08-17T13:00:14+00:00 OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/eab0f8bc-9c81-4ebe-9bd3-ffc6c10d815b Megadose en 2026-08-17T12:55:01+00:00 Groq raised $350M led by Disruptive at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.9B in September 2025 before Nvidia struck a licensing deal and hired much of its talent (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/dab85b18-2b5d-408e-bc4f-090a6dece871 Megadose en 2026-08-17T12:25:01+00:00 Chip giants participated in startup funding rounds collectively surpassing $250B YTD; Nvidia leads the sector in deal volume with a record 59 funding rounds (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News) https://megadose.ai/i/bc9c2f5b-01af-4678-aa75-25aafe27f75c Megadose en 2026-08-17T11:25:01+00:00 Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/4997c7ce-a00a-4e5c-8b5c-6d690c9b8e4a Megadose en 2026-08-17T10:45:03+00:00 Sources: Meta and BlackRock's $14B El Paso data center project is not insured against total loss, exposing lenders to credit risks and big potential liabilities (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/ab2db3ad-657f-4745-9a17-36b3723a5d70 Megadose en 2026-08-17T10:00:00+00:00 Stripe Acquiring OpenRouter, Aggregating AI?, Flipping the Business Model https://megadose.ai/i/1cf94b84-f81f-4fdf-9720-3b8a1c76851b Megadose en 2026-08-17T09:45:03+00:00 Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their $600B in reported capex (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/46244e33-0a45-4476-8df1-56eab5289e41 Megadose en 2026-08-17T05:25:01+00:00 Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog) https://megadose.ai/i/bdc3f759-8542-45e2-888f-517dfa20c5b8 Megadose en 2026-08-17T05:10:01+00:00 AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January (James Fontanella-Khan/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/9ccc47ec-f7a7-4203-8c87-3cdbe396a75a Megadose en 2026-08-16T22:35:01+00:00 How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/3ab5e9ce-ab45-45a9-8306-4ea5272bad54 Megadose en 2026-08-16T22:00:39+00:00 Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things https://megadose.ai/i/4b217b51-bf6a-4b76-84e9-e26185159028 Megadose en 2026-08-16T20:57:04+00:00 Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ https://megadose.ai/i/d66b5eed-6594-4d89-8205-ff48a2561b02 Megadose en 2026-08-16T20:31:16+00:00 Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter https://megadose.ai/i/233b59a0-d3f3-4422-9f16-f88f433a9ac2 Megadose en 2026-08-16T20:10:01+00:00 Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/7bea761c-38eb-4c85-9ec6-9ca95e3a71e4 Megadose en 2026-08-16T05:40:01+00:00 Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (Antoine Tardif/Unite.AI) https://megadose.ai/i/524df5c4-f61b-40e5-94e6-f76a2759875e Megadose en 2026-08-15T21:40:00+00:00 A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO (Zeyi Yang/Wired)