https://megadose.ai/i/03bfa8d5-7092-4162-a0a6-26b37f05c20f Megadose en 2026-08-19T17:27:37+00:00 Stripe agrees to buy New York-based OpenRouter for an undisclosed amount; Stripe had reportedly agreed to pay more than $7B for OpenRouter (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/b132c5a8-9a8e-41f3-9602-2720fbb864ed Megadose en 2026-08-19T17:25:00+00:00 Meta launches a Mac app for Meta AI and says Meta AI can now work directly with Instagram and Facebook accounts, Meta ad campaigns, and Google Workspace (Emma Roth/The Verge) https://megadose.ai/i/b61cb28b-cd1a-49b4-a403-dd2ac0b435d3 Megadose en 2026-08-19T15:55:02+00:00 Rivian spinout Also, which is developing autonomous driving tech, raised a $150M Series D led by Prysm Capital, after announcing a $200M round in March 2026 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/7a209505-db3d-4e34-8e23-e6ccbf736b26 Megadose en 2026-08-19T15:45:02+00:00 Network Bio, which is developing an AI foundation model from datasets of patient tissue and blood samples created by pooling access to biobanks, raised $50M (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/117dea40-a006-413d-9aa4-14de9c62de7d Megadose en 2026-08-19T15:25:01+00:00 Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on all compatible Fire TV devices in the US, automatically upgrading users even if they don't subscribe to Prime (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/aa9b22b7-5b7a-401f-b98e-dfc7ce778f10 Megadose en 2026-08-19T15:20:06+00:00 Sources: Veeda, which is developing world models and is led by ex-Nvidia VP of AI Research Sanja Fidler, raised a $90M+ seed and is backed by Khosla and Radical (Murad Hemmadi/The Logic) https://megadose.ai/i/8a1c2e58-545e-4e18-84e6-c6232b38f79d Megadose en 2026-08-19T15:00:00+00:00 Amazon makes its AI-powered Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required https://megadose.ai/i/c814c1bc-ef3e-4546-97de-653603306077 Megadose en 2026-08-19T14:45:01+00:00 Sources: Nvidia is working as a matchmaker to connect companies holding its GPUs with Nordic data center operators that have available capacity to deploy them (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/d8e2fb18-229d-4c2c-97d5-4f6b55841bbd Megadose en 2026-08-19T14:25:59+00:00 Ornith-1.5 open models launch in 397B, 35B, and 9 B sizes. https://megadose.ai/i/2d7f0210-b517-472f-a178-7db433e8c247 Megadose en 2026-08-19T14:09:39+00:00 Calendly throws its hat into meeting note-taker circus https://megadose.ai/i/3bf8e4df-d8a5-4c9c-a5d0-aa144e4747f9 Megadose en 2026-08-19T13:10:01+00:00 Marvell and Google expand their chip development deal, with Marvell granting Google a warrant to buy up to 58M+ shares at $206.58 each, totaling up to $12.2B (Dana Wollman/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/7417e2f4-0522-44b2-a7c6-d79c157ad46e Megadose en 2026-08-19T13:05:00+00:00 Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) https://megadose.ai/i/beea3951-0859-4d2c-a08b-a6a59ffa93d4 Megadose en 2026-08-19T11:00:43+00:00 OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek) https://megadose.ai/i/b99392bc-7ce3-41dd-b508-c3cb26914677 Megadose en 2026-08-19T10:30:01+00:00 Kuaishou reports Q2 revenue flat at ~$5.2B, meeting est., net income down 36% YoY to ~$467M, the biggest drop since 2021, and Kling AI sales up 200% (Rachel Yeo/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/624041b2-28c7-46a9-bcd5-aa4edce70979 Megadose en 2026-08-19T10:00:00+00:00 Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers https://megadose.ai/i/fb34fc70-b4ed-4e38-b26d-60015cddbe37 Megadose en 2026-08-19T09:55:02+00:00 Sources: Samsung raises prices for advanced 4nm and 5nm chipmaking services by up to 15% for new orders in July, driven by AI demand and TSMC's tight capacity (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/534de529-8afd-4fc9-9409-1ab7b912761b Megadose en 2026-08-19T09:45:01+00:00 Filing: SK Hynix plans a ~$29B share buyback, repurchasing and canceling up to 24M treasury shares, in a bid to calm worries about the durability of AI spending (Denny Thomas/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/f952c8ea-2e71-4809-b4cd-a7270586dee8 Megadose en 2026-08-19T07:00:00+00:00 Replit expands access to software creation with GPT-5.6 Luna https://megadose.ai/i/f09ef15d-843c-4e4e-ada4-452f64168ee4 Megadose en 2026-08-19T05:15:01+00:00 Block releases Berd, a desktop app it built to give its employees a single environment for working with AI agents across different models, under Apache 2.0 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) https://megadose.ai/i/e47e0b92-791e-4363-937d-645a143c651f Megadose en 2026-08-19T04:45:01+00:00 Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) https://megadose.ai/i/4390f21a-392f-4b40-a73e-5781e9cc2bbe Megadose en 2026-08-19T04:15:00+00:00 Austin-based Smack Technologies, which is developing AI decision-making tools for the US military, raised a $61M Series B led by Costanoa and First In (Mike Stone/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/599a5d31-1340-46c4-aa41-93cfcc9142ea Megadose en 2026-08-19T03:15:01+00:00 Sources: Beijing allowed ByteDance and Tencent to each receive about 10,000 Nvidia H200 chips at their mainland China facilities in recent weeks (Zijing Wu/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/c9b9987b-690b-4b32-8b1b-4101d0bcd021 Megadose en 2026-08-19T02:25:01+00:00 Chinese humanoid robot maker Unitree's stock surged 629% in early trading in its Shanghai debut on Wednesday, after raising ~$904M in its IPO (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/57ffe420-a593-4bfd-bd57-0643a2e438e4 Megadose en 2026-08-19T02:00:37+00:00 Sources: Temporal is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the open-source orchestration platform developer a ~$500M raise at a $12B+ valuation (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/74e1f075-b20c-4c6a-822f-c80bf66d847d Megadose en 2026-08-19T01:20:00+00:00 Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M+ (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/a00f608f-71ac-4904-9c05-a86d222716ad Megadose en 2026-08-19T00:30:03+00:00 Cerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips and built around its new Nexus architecture, with first shipments starting this quarter (Max A. Cherney/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/60ba5d4b-a380-4652-83d8-3319864746fc Megadose en 2026-08-18T23:15:02+00:00 Anthropic details two experiments showing how Claude can accelerate protein design and analytical chemistry, and says it plans an access program for scientists (Anthropic) https://megadose.ai/i/4334e5a6-9abb-451a-a6c6-79477fe01235 Megadose en 2026-08-18T22:50:01+00:00 Sources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to $6.7B, but its operating margin sank further; Anthropic more than doubled its revenue to $11.6B in the same period (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/4c982311-a571-4452-b05c-593358500266 Megadose en 2026-08-18T22:35:01+00:00 Z.ai's GLM-5.3 with max reasoning scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 but below Opus 5 at 63 and Fable 5 at 62 (@artificialanlys) https://megadose.ai/i/b532350a-4259-44ea-bd88-2602e7e070c3 Megadose en 2026-08-18T22:14:25+00:00 Cursor capitalizes on Github frustration, launches rival hosting platform https://megadose.ai/i/2b43dfaa-85bf-4d5d-bdd7-36f303afad27 Megadose en 2026-08-18T21:39:20+00:00 Mojo🔥 is now open source https://megadose.ai/i/1386e9d9-ac62-4b8e-af88-ca3243707886 Megadose en 2026-08-18T20:40:01+00:00 Sources: Anthropic has been preparing to give its co-founders shares with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside pressure, ahead of a planned IPO (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/309b2f47-3b99-4c02-b135-f813dd902833 Megadose en 2026-08-18T19:00:35+00:00 VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) https://megadose.ai/i/7aa651ed-4873-4a85-97d4-f01461c17fd0 Megadose en 2026-08-18T17:59:01+00:00 From Corpora to Co-Evolving Capabilities: Capability-Centric Data Design for Generalist Image Generation https://megadose.ai/i/c74fd4be-24e4-4473-9c26-f3f3fda0011c Megadose en 2026-08-18T17:55:07+00:00 On the Fragility of Self-Improving Agents: Variance, Task Order, and Underspecification https://megadose.ai/i/be7b473a-ddc1-47c2-a3ce-d1c68f4b1974 Megadose en 2026-08-18T17:52:52+00:00 TokEval: A Tokenizer Evaluation Suite https://megadose.ai/i/92675da9-606b-4e0c-86a3-6e5e6827d4a9 Megadose en 2026-08-18T17:44:18+00:00 StagedWorkspace: A Versioned Workspace for Knowledge-Work Agents https://megadose.ai/i/3c203b5d-4d7d-4b49-9296-2a54250409ff Megadose en 2026-08-18T17:33:00+00:00 Optimize Your Sampling: Tuned Diffusion Sampling with Bayesian Optimization https://megadose.ai/i/f8414613-e3ab-44b8-8530-c0cef4544dba Megadose en 2026-08-18T17:22:54+00:00 Chain-of-Experience for Continual LLM Improvement https://megadose.ai/i/7e0972be-88d6-44b3-a124-3fd5155ad941 Megadose en 2026-08-18T17:21:58+00:00 Etched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month https://megadose.ai/i/2b27fe33-dc57-4447-9367-45b7a02434f5 Megadose en 2026-08-18T17:10:01+00:00 Sources: Anthropic's revolving credit facility is set to surpass its roughly $10B target as banks compete for roles on the company's upcoming IPO (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/079c7add-c474-4614-b512-99cc5f2af38f Megadose en 2026-08-18T17:00:43+00:00 The IOL-AI Challenge: An Open Challenge towards Advancing Linguistic Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/a2696fb4-c265-4fa9-b149-a97749eb79f2 Megadose en 2026-08-18T16:42:02+00:00 Judge, Retrieve, or Abstain: Uncertainty-Guarded LLM Judging with Provable Risk Guarantees https://megadose.ai/i/8d669f1f-7446-418f-b189-f3e00fb588b4 Megadose en 2026-08-18T16:30:21+00:00 Recirculation https://megadose.ai/i/9ce55572-1b6f-46ff-ae27-52b85218dc08 Megadose en 2026-08-18T16:11:08+00:00 Understanding the Surprising Generalization Properties of Tabular Foundation Models https://megadose.ai/i/bbe4708c-6384-4f29-b7a5-dd763a1752dc Megadose en 2026-08-18T16:05:00+00:00 Harvey announces Harvey Tenet, its first in-house, proprietary model for legal work, trained on mock disputes and case files using a version of Kimi K3 (Melia Robinson/Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/c4a71493-9870-4856-abf4-91c40f2c7ea9 Megadose en 2026-08-18T15:40:29+00:00 CABLE: Extending the Reach of Memory Retrieval via Complementary Antecedent-Based Linking and Expansion https://megadose.ai/i/39739fb2-e17f-40fa-a07a-0e9a90225fa3 Megadose en 2026-08-18T15:38:26+00:00 AutoResearch: Insight In, Hallucination Out https://megadose.ai/i/834f2eb6-0955-4ff2-9cbc-7004322d6a8e Megadose en 2026-08-18T15:29:18+00:00 Dynamic Compression in Recurrent Networks https://megadose.ai/i/785ec3cf-ad05-4892-9c81-4e1888d886fd Megadose en 2026-08-18T15:29:09+00:00 BEAR-Bench: A Bilingual Enterprise and Academic Reasoning Benchmark for Multimodal Models https://megadose.ai/i/9fc30ce6-d848-417d-96d2-3f1aa25194f5 Megadose en 2026-08-18T15:05:01+00:00 Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a $20M Series A, following a $10M seed in 2025 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) https://megadose.ai/i/473ed0ba-9fe5-445f-b1aa-d38cbbd487da Megadose en 2026-08-18T14:57:10+00:00 Cursor begins Origin code hosting rollout for paid plans https://megadose.ai/i/e4326bff-076c-4634-ac8d-e17204ff38da Megadose en 2026-08-18T14:25:07+00:00 Velaura AI, which is developing low-power chips for data centers and physical AI applications, like robotics, raised a $110M Series A at a $1B+ valuation (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/28328913-78fd-47fe-842f-a4d2a1566cba Megadose en 2026-08-18T14:00:00+00:00 Warp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development https://megadose.ai/i/1a4744f7-4f85-434d-a215-446c6787fd88 Megadose en 2026-08-18T13:50:30+00:00 OpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it https://megadose.ai/i/8c6d1305-a170-4a9b-8865-0efe082767f2 Megadose en 2026-08-18T11:01:07+00:00 Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models (Juro Osawa/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/be4fec5d-dd06-47c9-aba0-d30e1cd93181 Megadose en 2026-08-18T11:00:00+00:00 Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections https://megadose.ai/i/3b20f4b7-634e-48bd-ae7c-59d4d148d21f Megadose en 2026-08-18T11:00:00+00:00 Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections https://megadose.ai/i/5a664c29-6155-48f9-ad5f-51201e8cb499 Megadose en 2026-08-18T10:45:00+00:00 Reddit launches an early experiment to convert select text posts and comments into short videos with AI voiceovers, rolling out on the web, iOS, and Android (Jay Peters/The Verge) https://megadose.ai/i/fe198aff-a782-4cb8-9ea8-da2b45e21f34 Megadose en 2026-08-18T10:35:00+00:00 Alibaba's Alipay launches a new "all-in-one" platform for businesses to use AI agents to automate tasks; Alibaba's stock jumps 5%+ and is up 40%+ since June (Jeanny Yu/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/4fea760c-0509-46d1-b4d8-3011b1b4e5ad Megadose en 2026-08-18T10:26:07+00:00 AI inference chip startup Etched raised $700M led by its new server rack customer Jane Street at a $21B valuation, up from $10.3B after raising $300M in July (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/a4136c89-55e7-4f11-8441-75d1e2b3d62c Megadose en 2026-08-18T09:50:01+00:00 Baidu reports Q2 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.62B, below ~$4.69B est. and its fifth straight quarterly decline, and net income of ~$341M, as it lags AI rivals (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/8640468a-170a-420b-9a31-aef3bd6d6e24 Megadose en 2026-08-18T06:25:42+00:00 Rogue Studio, which calls itself a "playground for creative ethical mischief", launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool to make adult content of Hollywood quality (Jason Parham/Wired) https://megadose.ai/i/d15a45c0-b450-4637-af7c-552fdb16f00c Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:45:01+00:00 Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount as it scrambled for cash; word of its trouble left it "being hunted" (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/aff86c18-00f0-4c3b-8b52-d04e4351ed53 Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 Embodied-Navigator: Point, Think, Memorize, and Align for Efficient Navigation https://megadose.ai/i/f1ba4c75-3c2d-4576-83c7-c1f7d59289e4 Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 GS-Voxel: Fitting-Free Structured Latents for Large-Scale 3DGS Generation https://megadose.ai/i/d88fe214-db89-4fd9-bff7-84d7a8e9f762 Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 ASI-Bench: At the Dawn of Artificial Superintelligence https://megadose.ai/i/88664974-313a-4baa-b3b3-7c981c88a30c Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 Abra: Scaling Diffusion Image Training https://megadose.ai/i/71b0294b-9b88-4857-86f2-f71f1d5284fc Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 StartupBench: Benchmarking General-Purpose Agents on Market-Validated End-to-End Workflows https://megadose.ai/i/9d196134-ebdc-46b4-8728-72df369d2ae5 Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 aDSL: Agentic 3D Creation via Joint Agent-Program Design https://megadose.ai/i/bf530071-3f34-4dc6-a84d-19389f5102c3 Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 Agentic ESOpt: Fine-Tuning Long-Horizon LLM Agents with Minimal GPU Requirements https://megadose.ai/i/4c033047-77bd-4a6d-8b5b-5b4ddfce8f24 Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 MoE-ViE: Mixture of Experts Vision Encoder for Efficient Image and Video Understanding https://megadose.ai/i/21ac8ae3-4830-48e9-9844-c25ad6951091 Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 EDITBRIDGE: Towards Faithful and Efficient Ultra-High-Resolution Image Editing https://megadose.ai/i/3a02ed4b-f00e-407b-9712-68151c739320 Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 CoinVE-200K: A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset for Compositional Instruction-Guided Video Editing https://megadose.ai/i/ba30a0ea-ecea-4a26-b433-d837df3255ad Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 Agent Lightning v1.0: Towards Harnessed Agentic RL https://megadose.ai/i/d2b27f15-2919-404f-b96b-c17ee7d78c69 Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 HarnessRisk: A Lifecycle-Oriented Benchmark for Agent Harness Safety https://megadose.ai/i/9711bec9-c08a-4981-bcdd-812408273812 Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:00:00+00:00 PTXBench: Benchmark and Adapt LLMs for GPU Kernel Optimization with Architecture-specific PTX https://megadose.ai/i/ab184073-e5b5-49dc-897b-abafd1e15232 Megadose en 2026-08-17T23:58:14+00:00 Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index https://megadose.ai/i/3ef93855-e00b-43e0-9197-3ee2e34339e2 Megadose en 2026-08-17T23:56:26+00:00 Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B https://megadose.ai/i/ed468e9b-a036-4a88-b959-b8a14907d197 Megadose en 2026-08-17T23:13:41+00:00 [AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B https://megadose.ai/i/75111c39-f2f3-427c-b810-0c09f388d1e2 Megadose en 2026-08-17T21:20:00+00:00 Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B (Alan Neuhauser/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/b52f20a7-fa0d-4834-9269-e30494bc4950 Megadose en 2026-08-17T21:03:18+00:00 GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% 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/2e52028b-2731-4255-8934-9c19ee839f83 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:59:57+00:00 Don't Drop the BATON: Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation via Agentic Subtask Exploration and Transition-aware Memory https://megadose.ai/i/bcb44cfc-615c-47aa-bc67-fb294e64e428 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:59:55+00:00 Q-based Variational Inverse Reinforcement Learning https://megadose.ai/i/d4049e39-9528-4f91-afe0-10a68d03cafb Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:55:26+00:00 AutoSR: Automatic Symbolic Regression by Searching Research States https://megadose.ai/i/b9fb528f-eb4e-4d30-85cc-0cc86372cb39 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:50:04+00:00 Towards Computational Provenance: Carrying Causal-State Evidence in Generated Text