https://megadose.ai/i/ca99302a-e361-484e-a83a-53263440d71e Megadose en 2026-10-19T15:55:01+00:00 Amazon introduces TorchNeuron, an open-source tool that will allow developers to run code written in PyTorch on Amazon's Trainium chips with no rewrite (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) https://megadose.ai/i/baf58c29-3276-4bd2-b7fb-d50e2e3dcf10 Megadose en 2026-10-19T15:40:02+00:00 AI infrastructure startup Modal says it plans to start using Nvidia's Vera CPUs for the first time for hosting agents, alongside existing Intel and AMD chips (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/3b0c7227-ee65-4559-b2ab-400bca0d9f20 Megadose en 2026-10-19T15:37:09+00:00 Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs https://megadose.ai/i/bbab08f6-803a-48bf-9f65-889cae0e1227 Megadose en 2026-10-19T15:30:01+00:00 MiniMax launches M3.1 Flash, saying it delivers "a generational leap" in agentic tasks, coding, computer use, and cybersecurity, with weights due October 23 (MiniMax) https://megadose.ai/i/9cf69be9-1f3f-4e5a-8626-352c0d14dcd4 Megadose en 2026-10-19T13:25:02+00:00 Microsoft unveils new security tools in its 365 E7 bundle and Project Perception system to treat AI agents as potential insider threats via risk assessments (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) https://megadose.ai/i/18259046-462a-4cde-b17f-fd3eb7aeba15 Megadose en 2026-10-19T12:20:02+00:00 Tel Aviv-based doubleAI releases its debut code execution model to optimize GPU and CPU performance; doubleAI raised $220M and acquired 1,000 Nvidia B300 chips (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/3a6c8638-956f-4fe0-bbe5-6b0296316672 Megadose en 2026-10-19T11:45:00+00:00 AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B after raising $700M in 2024 (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/0e6ac279-138f-4069-abaf-e2855acac65a Megadose en 2026-10-19T10:30:01+00:00 Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder) https://megadose.ai/i/bcbeefd3-1776-4388-b059-ad26b66e78fa Megadose en 2026-10-19T04:40:02+00:00 Abby Care, which runs a clinically led, AI-powered platform to train and certify family caregivers, raised an $82M Series C led by Transformation Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/f9f18d6c-47a8-4693-b76c-b5e7842264e5 Megadose en 2026-10-19T03:10:02+00:00 Sam Altman's World launches a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools to verify human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering (Zack Abrams/The Block) https://megadose.ai/i/06a6f62d-f167-478f-9086-c3775446b946 Megadose en 2026-10-18T22:15:00+00:00 Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower valuation of $16B to $19B, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/1a565b0b-67e3-46aa-86db-a96431d82867 Megadose en 2026-10-18T19:55:01+00:00 Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundreds of neoclouds to survive, as Nvidia supports them with easier credit terms, site finding, and $20B in leases (Phoebe Liu/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/5d361f0e-34cc-4659-b61e-d166491ff148 Megadose en 2026-10-18T18:10:01+00:00 Sources: Nvidia asked Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron to make base dies for its custom NVHBM memory on TSMC's 3nm process; Samsung agreed, its first use of TSMC (Kyu-Seok Shim/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/6f296b40-8ed2-4845-8a5b-d5578fea7c79 Megadose en 2026-10-18T18:07:09+00:00 OpenAI testing new "Aurora" GPT-Image model on Arena https://megadose.ai/i/be7f9d74-26d7-4796-abed-57e0609f5d6e Megadose en 2026-10-18T16:30:00+00:00 Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce https://megadose.ai/i/cc03fbda-11d8-44e6-bf8c-4aa50faf9d10 Megadose en 2026-10-18T06:10:04+00:00 AI debt worries mount as CoreWeave's bond yield tops 15%, insuring SoftBank debt gets pricier, and some Oracle debt trades near 80 to 90 cents on the dollar (New York Times) https://megadose.ai/i/e00a3682-09fd-4b1c-a584-90b4c795373f Megadose en 2026-10-18T06:05:00+00:00 Microsoft cancels its deal with Nscale to serve as the anchor tenant and rent 23K Nvidia AI chips at a planned data center facing repeated delays in Essex, UK (James Titcomb/Telegraph) https://megadose.ai/i/15a72116-43f1-41a3-91ef-fe7916995d42 Megadose en 2026-10-18T05:40:01+00:00 Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from Zone II, CC.VC, and others, a source says at a $245M valuation (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/0c610096-1f27-44da-b75a-7d7315a71bff Megadose en 2026-10-18T03:50:01+00:00 Filing: Disney agreed to hire 60+ staff from Character.AI and pay them ~$180M over three years, plus $30M for retention awards; a bankruptcy judge must approve (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/89a71b3a-67c4-4f2a-8332-0e5110032276 Megadose en 2026-10-17T18:48:08+00:00 Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says