https://megadose.ai/i/79464ff3-5e67-4c4a-8342-5928b73a1544 Megadose en 2026-07-21T15:40:03+00:00 Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Tulsee Doshi/Google) https://megadose.ai/i/522baab2-a5c6-4b3e-baa9-beb76d7c7451 Megadose en 2026-07-21T15:18:05+00:00 Google says Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to models like Mythos, available first to governments and some partners (Emma Roth/The Verge) https://megadose.ai/i/b99dfd32-9e6d-41bd-9341-5a0b5343d389 Megadose en 2026-07-21T15:16:30+00:00 Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber https://megadose.ai/i/fad8f5f3-7fba-4869-a90d-66841347561a Megadose en 2026-07-21T15:10:06+00:00 Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Abner Li/9to5Google) https://megadose.ai/i/fdade10b-c7eb-4408-bb72-f5c9eaf6b719 Megadose en 2026-07-21T15:00:34+00:00 Augustus, which is building a federally chartered "AI-native" clearing bank designed around stablecoins, raised $180M led by Tiger Global at a $1B valuation (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk) https://megadose.ai/i/dbc5bad5-27c6-4ace-ba59-7dd45a60e58c Megadose en 2026-07-21T14:50:01+00:00 Sources: after it closes a round at a $31.5B valuation, Moonshot plans a final raise at a $50B valuation to capitalize on Kimi K3 buzz before a Hong Kong IPO (Pei Li/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/01949882-9675-44ab-8be7-8e276d1c246b Megadose en 2026-07-21T14:22:27+00:00 Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac https://megadose.ai/i/5390c1f1-532b-41c2-9fc8-2787a0eae32e Megadose en 2026-07-21T14:20:01+00:00 Docs: AI data startup Mercor had $614M in gross revenue in H1 2026, up 70% from all of 2025, with ~91% from foundation model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/ce583b5a-c784-4829-bce0-8a52e32d1524 Megadose en 2026-07-21T13:00:13+00:00 Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica's GPU orchestration startup SkyPilot, which aims to be neutral across hardware and cloud vendors, raised a $20M seed led by Lux (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/b5729727-64ec-4d70-ac8b-13b076542df0 Megadose en 2026-07-21T12:50:04+00:00 Microsoft and Mistral sign a multibillion-dollar deal to build European data centers and integrate Mistral models into Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/912cd44e-8b71-4a25-a223-caacff0c4abb Megadose en 2026-07-21T12:45:01+00:00 Samsung plans to launch its AI-powered Samsung Health Assistant and new heart metrics tools like Vitals for overnight metric tracking in beta in August (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/aa80adbe-7598-4ca2-8980-055d43e9a232 Megadose en 2026-07-21T11:40:00+00:00 Gritt, which is developing an AI system that helps build infrastructure like solar panels, emerges from stealth with a $26M Series A and $34M in total funding (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/9a630151-27d2-468f-8a77-8f4f59938413 Megadose en 2026-07-21T10:00:01+00:00 Sources: BlackRock leads a $12B+ debt sale for Meta's new El Paso data center, as Meta signs a lease for a BlackRock-backed data-center project in Pennsylvania (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/67cf8410-33ce-46b4-b498-1708be37bba1 Megadose en 2026-07-21T10:00:00+00:00 Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else https://megadose.ai/i/631359e1-e00d-493b-bb08-ce02caa9e057 Megadose en 2026-07-21T09:10:01+00:00 Sources: TSMC plans to hike advanced and mature node prices by up to 10% in 2027, plus a 10%-15% premium for advanced chip orders exceeding original forecasts (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia) https://megadose.ai/i/0e4fc344-94c1-4c2e-99ee-fbeed7b4d266 Megadose en 2026-07-21T08:44:23+00:00 Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge https://megadose.ai/i/efb7ddfc-0a56-491e-bbd0-2e51890f254f Megadose en 2026-07-21T03:56:03+00:00 Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding https://megadose.ai/i/fc8b7b54-466e-4a54-a1f0-fb0985a161e4 Megadose en 2026-07-21T03:15:02+00:00 Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an est. ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, eclipsing ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt (Kohei Yamada/Nikkei Asia) https://megadose.ai/i/d9c9f0b1-21a1-493c-a3d2-16a5cd1ce765 Megadose en 2026-07-20T21:21:15+00:00 Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient https://megadose.ai/i/9700dc1c-94de-4663-956b-308aee9038f1 Megadose en 2026-07-20T20:50:40+00:00 AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use https://megadose.ai/i/b9cbb6fa-4adc-48b1-9158-93c719b027ff Megadose en 2026-07-20T19:40:01+00:00 Natural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/2ed72477-1fcf-4291-a20e-49b604ee3a9b Megadose en 2026-07-20T18:10:00+00:00 OpenAI paused internal access to an unreleased model that disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture after it repeatedly found ways to act outside its sandbox (OpenAI) https://megadose.ai/i/1354a0e8-8475-492f-bebf-c9013a7a9cb4 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:59:51+00:00 The Many Senses of Visual Similarity: A Text-Prompted Image Perceptual Metric https://megadose.ai/i/1e021637-0400-4275-a718-221d0d364151 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:59:41+00:00 Patch Policy: Efficient Embodied Control via Dense Visual Representations https://megadose.ai/i/fbfea976-2dba-4dff-898c-1a327e1658de Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:59:37+00:00 Automated Discovery Has No Universally Superior Harness https://megadose.ai/i/e96f27b0-0af8-4ace-924a-138761dc8950 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:58:31+00:00 It's Not What You Say, It's How You Say It: Evaluating LLM Responses to Expressions of Belief https://megadose.ai/i/e751b98e-b67a-4efb-8bd4-27c88c21227b Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:58:13+00:00 Simple Domain Generalization for Strong Pixel-Level Image Tampering Detection in Modern VLMs https://megadose.ai/i/07273e8d-e545-44fc-b415-730574c8c59d Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:58:05+00:00 Logical Judgments Under Pressure: Diagnosing Syllogistic Stability with Learned Soft Prefixes https://megadose.ai/i/96bc4313-a82f-4c12-bce5-b82cf5978aec Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:57:45+00:00 Causal Discovery on Irregular Time Series https://megadose.ai/i/bff84714-5460-42b1-9b68-c6ae4adad65f Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:57:20+00:00 Vector Search As Nearest Neighbor Matching: RAG-based Policy Learning in Causal Inference https://megadose.ai/i/179148a4-3ffd-4dd0-995a-652df9ba5f17 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:52:33+00:00 GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Efficient Pathology Foundation Models for Whole-Slide and Tumor Microenvironment Analysis https://megadose.ai/i/27466db4-016d-4bbc-a835-97a1b5129740 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:47:44+00:00 SWE-Pruner Pro: The Coder LLM Already Knows What to Prune https://megadose.ai/i/3a32c6b9-c2fc-471b-99ba-c27ee8b60335 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:40:25+00:00 Learning Adaptive Safety Margins for Visual Navigation https://megadose.ai/i/74b0544e-121e-4bec-a314-d5e4918c3c73 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:38:38+00:00 PPL-Factory: Task-Aware and Budget-Aware Data Selection from Language Modeling to Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/36aaeab5-2446-43f6-a823-5ff4da9392d1 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:38:12+00:00 Three-Body Scattering for Generative Modeling https://megadose.ai/i/08d0c7a2-8526-480b-a148-ea2997c7ce93 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:36:05+00:00 Certified Training for Convolutional Perturbations https://megadose.ai/i/f0da4f0a-ce60-43e9-be44-21039680013d Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:26:21+00:00 EVOLVE: Efficient Learned Volume Compression with Variable-Rate Encoding on a Cross-Domain Database https://megadose.ai/i/ada462a7-ce8a-4861-931d-f029d64d6286 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:17:05+00:00 VEHBench: A Stage-Local Diagnostic Benchmark for LLM-Assisted Vibration Energy Harvester Design https://megadose.ai/i/bea589a6-daf9-44b7-a7c9-61921d02f0ae Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:12:28+00:00 FlashRT: Agent Harness for Guiding Agents to Deploy Real-Time Multimodal Applications https://megadose.ai/i/d9491532-a0a4-403a-8b76-27f87648b55e Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:07:41+00:00 A Continual Validation, Updating, and Decision-Making Framework for Self-Adaptive Digital Twins via Robust Model Predictive Control: A Case Study in Additive Manufacturing https://megadose.ai/i/e1c9d0b6-713a-434e-b8ae-af6f7ddc557c Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:07:40+00:00 OR Else: A Differentiable Trust Region for Policy Optimization https://megadose.ai/i/6f63f7d6-5f5b-4d77-ab19-8f5d3af39143 Megadose en 2026-07-20T17:06:19+00:00 TRIM: Reducing AI-Generated CodeSlop via Agent Trajectory Minimization https://megadose.ai/i/e1aa8309-74e5-4a86-b5dc-90486f4847ad Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:55:01+00:00 Source: Z.ai completed construction of a 1 GW data center housing only Chinese chips; Z.ai has built or operates several computing clusters each with 10K+ chips (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/4d830f5b-717a-4943-a0a1-6335ed69d2e1 Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:50:05+00:00 Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to help companies predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities, raised a $25M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/7e4429ba-ea5d-4d93-bbc1-9621e3729d7e Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:49:30+00:00 Differentiable Logic Gate Networks for Low-Latency EEG Classification on Edge Devices https://megadose.ai/i/95f533b0-16a0-4d93-9b97-489141eff228 Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:43:54+00:00 Do Language Models Dream of Binding Molecules? Benchmarking LLMs under Spatial Constraints https://megadose.ai/i/1ac9666d-5209-4d2c-a7c8-2066a23e790d Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:36:00+00:00 O-VAD: Industrial Video Anomaly Detection through Object-Centric Tracking and Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/69acd45c-e49a-4c88-86de-b95c2e8cede3 Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:24:17+00:00 Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections for Parameter-Efficient Finetuning https://megadose.ai/i/327d840d-c758-43ec-9fa6-97c1248a2026 Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:20:26+00:00 ClouDens: Operational Context-Aware Anomaly Detection for Large-scale Cloud System Monitoring https://megadose.ai/i/e5f5e4c4-5742-4312-bcca-8fcca763cc46 Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:11:19+00:00 SGA: Plug&Play Geometric Verification for Educational Video Synthesis https://megadose.ai/i/34354ffc-8b52-4534-8264-320c80e8987e Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:10:06+00:00 How Does Alignment Tuning Shape Representations of Sycophancy and Related Cue-Induced Biases in LLMs? https://megadose.ai/i/628e2647-c092-4bfc-a53c-bba41cb3a1bc Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:08:49+00:00 LLM-as-a-Coach: Experiential Learning for Non-Verifiable Tasks https://megadose.ai/i/6f70325b-3a60-4377-9609-3ba0117a7da2 Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:03:15+00:00 FinSAgent: Corpus-Aligned Multi-Agent RAG Framework for Evidence-Grounded SEC Filing Question Answering https://megadose.ai/i/27ebef6c-0092-4591-8aa5-6375cf9461ea Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:02:58+00:00 Empowering On-Device Model Adaptation with an Edge AI Inference Accelerator https://megadose.ai/i/a165e5ea-692d-45cc-a575-b77ab0b94cfa Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:01:57+00:00 Can We Break LLMs Out of Self-Loops? Fine-Grained Reasoning Control with Activation Steering https://megadose.ai/i/826fde45-ca58-41b5-a5fa-1dcec52ffc7b Megadose en 2026-07-20T16:00:45+00:00 VDAR-Router: Adaptive LLMs Routing via Verbalized Query Difficulty Analysis Retrieval https://megadose.ai/i/471af10b-dc57-4a49-8707-1f81b65a17a4 Megadose en 2026-07-20T15:55:33+00:00 SciForma: Structure-Faithful Generation of Scientific Diagrams https://megadose.ai/i/2b189f43-9525-4b96-a393-92fd6cec69e7 Megadose en 2026-07-20T15:54:45+00:00 The Label Complexity of Class-Conditional Coverage under Distribution Shift https://megadose.ai/i/3bb55b76-aacc-4865-816e-21eb4688a391 Megadose en 2026-07-20T15:52:48+00:00 WorldCupArena: Fine-Grained Evaluation of Language Models and Deep-Research Agents on Football Forecasting https://megadose.ai/i/06d904f8-7750-4d07-a601-675e41379e55 Megadose en 2026-07-20T15:50:02+00:00 Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/072b69fa-2338-4faa-94b6-1918bd84bbf7 Megadose en 2026-07-20T15:50:02+00:00 Enhancing Rubric-based RL via Self-Distillation https://megadose.ai/i/1f4471b6-498f-43b8-9a3e-d39614c433eb Megadose en 2026-07-20T15:48:33+00:00 SelectInfer: Selective Neuron Loading and Computation for On-Device LLMs https://megadose.ai/i/9eaed4d3-d63b-418d-8982-0a34c91ea165 Megadose en 2026-07-20T15:43:21+00:00 Sobek: Streaming Equivariant Tensor Product Convolutions https://megadose.ai/i/883b3877-7137-4e34-ae14-52d9ce1dec58 Megadose en 2026-07-20T15:40:51+00:00 SGN: A Similarity-based Generative Network for Data Generation under Distribution Shift https://megadose.ai/i/beefd796-315e-4e71-880c-1f29f364b92d Megadose en 2026-07-20T15:36:03+00:00 Hardware Mechanisms to Dynamically Throttle AI Performance https://megadose.ai/i/e3c5909e-fcfa-4de0-ad09-fa6c3a2a8748 Megadose en 2026-07-20T13:16:00+00:00 AMD plans to ship Helios, its first rack-scale AI system to rival Nvidia, later in 2026 to Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and others; Helios costs an estimated $5M+ (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/2ed73d1a-2756-4f2b-a2c4-1a273f83f9c1 Megadose en 2026-07-20T13:10:01+00:00 Sources: Google is developing a specialized server chip, informally dubbed "Frozen v2", that integrates Gemini AI model blueprints in the silicon, set for 2028 (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/b3c530cf-073e-4d32-af2f-7f58cc1f42bc Megadose en 2026-07-20T12:57:33+00:00 Anthropic tests Penlight for live clinical transcripts and AI research https://megadose.ai/i/8d74841d-ce88-47a3-a012-96bb34c60ae1 Megadose en 2026-07-20T09:50:01+00:00 Sources: Chinese startup Moonshot AI is seeking formal approval from investors to start a Hong Kong IPO process, which could happen in as soon as six months (Juro Osawa/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/9a398acb-f221-4402-b083-42024d72254c Megadose en 2026-07-20T06:05:00+00:00 Cambridge-based CuspAI raised a $450M Series B led by Kleiner Perkins and NEA, and launched a coalition for AI materials discovery for chip and other industries (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/4bb584ed-71a3-47f9-9759-47728b4682f8 Megadose en 2026-07-20T05:15:41+00:00 Blackstone agrees to invest an undisclosed sum in South Korea-based Futronic, which makes actuators used in industrial robots, sources say at a ~$675M valuation (Manuel Baigorri/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/dfa6672d-232f-4d25-ab7a-b1c4ccb7b726 Megadose en 2026-07-20T04:35:01+00:00 Filing: Zhongji Innolight, China's leading optical transceiver maker, aims for an $8B Hong Kong IPO, the city's largest since Alibaba's $12.9B debut in 2019 (Dave Sebastian/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/b40fe21c-d2d7-42ab-9ebf-a2ba702979e8 Megadose en 2026-07-20T03:45:41+00:00 SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won says the memory shortage has prompted governments to intervene for domestic industries, and SK Hynix must expand capacity faster (Moon Joon-hyun/The Korea Herald) https://megadose.ai/i/4ba9a2fd-fbe1-446b-b14b-f054b3518a18 Megadose en 2026-07-20T02:30:30+00:00 TSMC CFO Wendell Huang says TSMC will use its new $100B US commitment, announced last week, to expand its Arizona capacity amid a "multi-year demand mega trend" (Jenny Lee/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/88c2f27d-cdc6-4798-a836-13a36d2f7112 Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 Token-Level Off-Policy Learning for Faithful Generation Under Distribution Shift https://megadose.ai/i/7abcffc6-74e4-44fb-824c-b6f36503dadc Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 HOMIE: Human-object Centric Video Personalization via Multimodal Intelligent Enchancement https://megadose.ai/i/1b8a618a-17f5-4143-b3b2-8822d0c38eb6 Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 FlashRT: Agent Harness for Guiding Agents to Deploy Real-Time Multimodal Applications https://megadose.ai/i/f9ffc5d1-c813-40c1-a9a1-40d6eedb7db5 Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 SWE-Pruner Pro: The Coder LLM Already Knows What to Prune https://megadose.ai/i/baa4b759-826a-46ff-a9e5-74e7660b9d19 Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 RynnBrain 1.1: Towards More Capable and Generalizable Embodied Foundation Model https://megadose.ai/i/5702fe5e-93ca-4f8e-9f50-66240415440b Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 LLM-as-a-Coach: Experiential Learning for Non-Verifiable Tasks https://megadose.ai/i/4b6c66e6-746c-445c-8d06-933c7e2be1f4 Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 DiFA: Inference-Time Forward-Process Alignment for Diffusion Models https://megadose.ai/i/44332ee3-dcd4-45c5-839a-d5038d05bcb1 Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 ShotPlan: Cinematic Video Generation with Learnable Planning Token https://megadose.ai/i/218f8149-ecbd-4d0b-a124-46a16064746f Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 WorldCupArena: Fine-Grained Evaluation of Language Models and Deep-Research Agents on Football Forecasting https://megadose.ai/i/0dace299-d80c-41b9-af02-e059a3257559 Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 Self-State Attacks on Self-Hosted AI Agents: How Far Can OS Defenses Go? https://megadose.ai/i/a2ba9156-b52c-4705-a019-03ab6434baf4 Megadose en 2026-07-20T00:00:00+00:00 FlowMimic: Mask-free Visual Editing and Generation with Pixel-pair Warped Flow Field for Online Video Editing Data Generation and Modality Mimicry https://megadose.ai/i/1f7bcc9a-b351-4f66-9641-3bd5f86ee292 Megadose en 2026-07-19T23:50:00+00:00 A look at the nonprofit Current AI, backed by $400M in commitments from many partners including $100M from France, that's funding open, public AI infrastructure (Kate Park/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/e43621e6-fc1c-4ec7-87ff-ddcef466cb59 Megadose en 2026-07-19T21:16:07+00:00 What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit