https://megadose.ai/i/807c526b-005f-4da2-bdf6-54d4f0a4eea1 Megadose en 2026-08-21T20:50:00+00:00 Nvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels (Terry Chen/NVIDIA Technical Blog) https://megadose.ai/i/8de8caf3-e95b-458d-8f48-cae08ae3b50c Megadose en 2026-08-21T20:25:01+00:00 Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who ran Google's TPU business until 2022, to join its compute team as part of a push to develop its own chips (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/207e35c2-fef7-49e2-9243-e06de19c8029 Megadose en 2026-08-21T19:45:01+00:00 Source: OpenAI's VP of sales in the Americas, Kaylin Voss, resigned a week after Denise Dresser left, prompting others on the sales team to consider resigning (Laura Bratton/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/a9614f8c-d9bc-4cd1-bd27-a05c0a8d0f70 Megadose en 2026-08-21T18:35:02+00:00 Anthropic says Mythos 5 is now in public beta in Claude Security for Enterprise users, and it is working with providers to embed Mythos 5 in defensive tools (Claude) https://megadose.ai/i/8bd902be-96aa-4974-ae09-73ff08a4506f Megadose en 2026-08-21T17:25:01+00:00 Sources: London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale is seeking to raise as much as $3B in its US IPO, which could take place as soon as September (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/3f817118-4cf4-4314-9028-d3705ce8cf73 Megadose en 2026-08-21T17:02:24+00:00 An AI tool for prioritizing candidate biomarkers from wearable sensor data https://megadose.ai/i/28c449b9-a1d4-434f-be51-6527804cfddf Megadose en 2026-08-21T15:00:41+00:00 Space data center startup Starcloud raised a $250M extension, at a $2.3B valuation, to its March $170M Series A; source: Nvidia invested $25M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/7cc03df1-f2b0-4d8f-bd4b-b5e334b26ad6 Megadose en 2026-08-21T14:00:00+00:00 Starcloud raises $250 million for orbital data centers as launch options dry up https://megadose.ai/i/a9e9ef8d-3e7e-4254-9e93-0e1a6f404575 Megadose en 2026-08-21T13:50:00+00:00 Kakao plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a new company tentatively named KakaoAI, which it expects to relist in Korea in 2027 (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/588c4ab3-152c-40b4-9dce-91db3a041211 Megadose en 2026-08-21T13:00:59+00:00 DeepSeek unveils an experimental version of its V4 Flash model that can understand visual prompts, saying it nears the performance of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/75ee2dcd-7e93-4fef-8ba9-942283ae5be0 Megadose en 2026-08-21T10:54:00+00:00 How mobility gives language models a deeper understanding of place https://megadose.ai/i/7460250a-ddb5-49d0-b961-4c630551d2ec Megadose en 2026-08-21T10:25:01+00:00 Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/049ade3f-569b-4182-977c-47062b402025 Megadose en 2026-08-21T05:45:21+00:00 [AINews] Poolside gets $12B reverse-execuhire to NVIDIA; founders stay for $1B, employees go for $6B, Infraco scaling to 7GW neocloud https://megadose.ai/i/2f314364-0bfb-4266-a64f-2f8d1a12acd1 Megadose en 2026-08-21T03:35:02+00:00 Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek (Marcela Ayres/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/e1c3bb11-c62c-4812-99a8-11b1207305f0 Megadose en 2026-08-21T02:25:01+00:00 Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/3a62052f-f500-4fdf-bc5e-0ed28f6e7bcc Megadose en 2026-08-21T00:13:44+00:00 AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom https://megadose.ai/i/48162fda-c5f7-4a90-a8c0-dc2b8f6ff87a Megadose en 2026-08-20T22:51:09+00:00 OpenAI rolls out an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT read, search, and analyze chats, prepare and send messages, and more (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) https://megadose.ai/i/b23d3b49-bfa4-423e-998e-260eb5ac15c8 Megadose en 2026-08-20T22:09:51+00:00 ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugin https://megadose.ai/i/97bae209-5c72-44df-9ca1-205c732e17e1 Megadose en 2026-08-20T20:40:01+00:00 Sources: Broadcom is in talks with a group of lenders to raise $60B+ in debt for an AI chip financing deal that will benefit Anthropic and other companies (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/d9c95c7c-4cb0-4dc1-b237-4d00fef81e84 Megadose en 2026-08-20T20:10:01+00:00 San Mateo-based Twin1 AI, which creates professional digital twins that integrate with tools like Slack, launches from stealth with a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/8943ab5e-36f9-4c5a-a2a2-55510bee5852 Megadose en 2026-08-20T19:36:38+00:00 Sources: Poolside struck a non-exclusive $6B licensing deal with Nvidia, plus a $1B investment at a $12B pre-money valuation; 109 staffers get Nvidia job offers (Newcomer) https://megadose.ai/i/b3395c35-ddb4-47fb-9716-ee57836c56fd Megadose en 2026-08-20T18:35:46+00:00 Meta rolls out Pocket, an experimental vibe-coding app that lets users create and share small games, in the US, after launching it in Brazil last month (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/28419780-80f6-4240-abd3-a5a6f2f06ba3 Megadose en 2026-08-20T18:25:01+00:00 Sources: Anthropic expects to match or beat the size of SpaceX's record-setting IPO, as it prepares to file publicly for its IPO as soon as the end of August (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/337f1ffe-38e9-47eb-b914-1b5280a78954 Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:59:57+00:00 ConceptGuard: Benchmarking Context-Sensitive Unlearning in Large Language Models https://megadose.ai/i/fe69d189-2e17-4c83-8283-9676160ba890 Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:57:00+00:00 Inducing Task Models from Computer-Use Traces https://megadose.ai/i/712ea633-7bd9-4ae8-9764-695385515c34 Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:56:59+00:00 AI4AI-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents in Algorithmic Design for Recursive Self-Improvement https://megadose.ai/i/6c3c4f90-bae7-4d57-98c8-a49b4d29502c Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:54:37+00:00 Pandora's AI Model Routing Box: Efficient Allocation with Costly Value Estimation https://megadose.ai/i/3dc31046-fc26-42e8-a61c-9203432eebc1 Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:53:59+00:00 MidTool: Mid-training Data Synthesis for Agentic Tool Use https://megadose.ai/i/dd18edec-e8de-436d-b267-df388a24023c Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:30:14+00:00 Phantom Gains: Auditing Self-Improvement Against a Measured Null https://megadose.ai/i/1ab81607-e980-4795-b490-a8bcc87946fe Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:20:47+00:00 Sources: Nvidia plans to begin small-batch shipments of an LPU tailored for Chinese customers by the end of 2026; the chip complies with US export control rules (Qianer Liu/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/9d7b94e5-6d9e-4a15-a1cf-9fb1d5cc801b Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:15:01+00:00 Astromech, which uses genomic data to build predictive AI models of biological change, raised $20M at a $3.8B valuation, bringing its total funding to $60M (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat) https://megadose.ai/i/78612ba2-2b45-4fc3-873a-35d0626a2e71 Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:14:19+00:00 Which Eviction Policy Should an LLM Cache Use? A Systematic Study Across Workloads, Capacities, and Encoders https://megadose.ai/i/47a2ef00-7a05-4b29-9ace-d6b590ba99bf Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:12:08+00:00 Break It Down, Pass It On: Cross-Task Skill Transfer in LLM Agents https://megadose.ai/i/b77ae01d-4733-4a41-b90d-b0b6a74b59c2 Megadose en 2026-08-20T17:10:02+00:00 Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using over the past three years, in the US; the service is free to use for the rest of 2026 (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/4bb6993d-d4d2-4d25-a738-66444a1415c4 Megadose en 2026-08-20T16:54:08+00:00 Learning When to Think: Adaptive Reasoning for Test-Time Compute Allocation https://megadose.ai/i/8429eb44-58a8-43a1-a67f-154dbca0851a Megadose en 2026-08-20T16:46:00+00:00 Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router https://megadose.ai/i/b7ae02dc-bf57-409f-9c54-ae393bd14afc Megadose en 2026-08-20T16:28:28+00:00 Rule-Compliant Visual Spatial Planning for Multimodal Large Language Models https://megadose.ai/i/daf23f0b-0d06-4890-a816-e6b0386140ce Megadose en 2026-08-20T16:14:47+00:00 InsufficiencyBench: Evaluating LLM legal advice on underspecified user queries https://megadose.ai/i/f89d46a9-3b0d-4f20-9e7f-54efdb6b03f0 Megadose en 2026-08-20T16:09:43+00:00 Daedalus-150M: A Convolution-Attention Hybrid Designed for CPU Inference https://megadose.ai/i/289f3d7d-3e13-4c70-8e37-44afae2e29d5 Megadose en 2026-08-20T16:07:26+00:00 Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users https://megadose.ai/i/45fa57dc-6398-410a-9233-dbc140df982c Megadose en 2026-08-20T16:01:42+00:00 ContractScrub: A benchmark for final review of legal contracts https://megadose.ai/i/4645f492-bd32-4d99-93ed-eeb1660e5359 Megadose en 2026-08-20T16:00:17+00:00 MemTrapBench: Benchmarking Cognitive Traps in LLM Memory Use https://megadose.ai/i/5b51f3f2-bfc2-46bb-9ca3-d8fd2928ace9 Megadose en 2026-08-20T16:00:00+00:00 Broadening access to Skala creates a faster path to predictive DFT https://megadose.ai/i/a4a5534c-3ba4-49b2-bad0-d389d08db28b Megadose en 2026-08-20T15:51:54+00:00 From Agent Behaviour to Agent-Friendly Documentation: An Empirical Study of How Coding Agents Discover, Read, and Write Technical Documentation https://megadose.ai/i/d7e75607-3bb8-4957-bbb2-ae3400c04e0a Megadose en 2026-08-20T15:41:05+00:00 Decoding silent reading from non-invasive EEG https://megadose.ai/i/62364378-2fb0-43be-ac0a-04ce63ba4916 Megadose en 2026-08-20T15:27:25+00:00 Ask Self, Ask Others: Relation Is All You Need https://megadose.ai/i/7425daf7-3a24-419e-9364-16610c80817e Megadose en 2026-08-20T15:24:54+00:00 Task-CoEvolve: Efficient Harness Optimization via Adaptive Validation Task Selection https://megadose.ai/i/119c7aba-1900-4a05-a5a8-45ae663f6b5e Megadose en 2026-08-20T15:16:39+00:00 DARS: Dual-Level Credit Assignment RL with Structured Reasoning for Instruction-Based Image Editing https://megadose.ai/i/95e041e7-ca63-44b4-86e6-3e37f35eea3e Megadose en 2026-08-20T15:13:41+00:00 FormalTCS: Benchmarking End-to-End Frontier Formal Theoretical Computer Science Research of Large Language Models https://megadose.ai/i/da66eb53-7a78-419d-9e77-e9643991e8fa Megadose en 2026-08-20T15:00:21+00:00 Feature Evolution and Migration during Vision Transformer Training https://megadose.ai/i/310ee70f-26c2-486e-974e-4e105b2d8637 Megadose en 2026-08-20T14:52:17+00:00 Discrete Diffusion Inference-Time Control with Nested Sequential Monte Carlo https://megadose.ai/i/41b7fd59-0af1-43e8-a65e-22fc394d9137 Megadose en 2026-08-20T14:48:30+00:00 When Text and Numbers Disagree: Evidence Arbitration in Large Language Models https://megadose.ai/i/9e9bc6fc-3ca2-43b1-8bd9-8406812313c7 Megadose en 2026-08-20T14:44:11+00:00 DECOWAM: Decoupled Whole-Body World-Action Model for Legged Mobile Manipulation https://megadose.ai/i/f50e4631-bebd-43ab-866d-c6fe9a9e47c3 Megadose en 2026-08-20T14:35:47+00:00 Waymo says it has built an ASIC chip that will improve its robotaxis' reflexes and navigational skills and help it diversify away from companies like Nvidia (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/2b17d8ea-b674-4191-ae56-7dd5937e7d77 Megadose en 2026-08-20T14:34:54+00:00 Structured Affinity for Unsupervised Visual Class-Incremental Memory in Deep Artificial Immune Networks https://megadose.ai/i/7b050a75-0386-419f-ac36-e39510d2d1e1 Megadose en 2026-08-20T14:32:01+00:00 Reward-Guided Autoregressive Graph Generation for Efficient Multi-Agent Communication Topology Design https://megadose.ai/i/b0068d2f-c492-47fc-97c0-f1acf3c73947 Megadose en 2026-08-20T13:15:00+00:00 Anthropic-backed enterprise AI venture Ode is acquiring four-year-old AI consultancy Casper for an undisclosed fee; Ode has 100+ staff after buying Fractional (Julia Hornstein/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/2f41f5cc-c05c-4366-b711-3624fb317132 Megadose en 2026-08-20T12:20:30+00:00 Slack launches Slack Code, adding dedicated, project-specific channels that let teams collaborate with AI coding agents "like teammates" across all Slack plans (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) https://megadose.ai/i/1ded74ac-dd66-4ea5-aaa9-96061f396b65 Megadose en 2026-08-20T12:11:57+00:00 Meta AI’s new Mac app wants you to talk to your apps https://megadose.ai/i/703ad94e-d9f4-4f53-8d59-dc20b67bcb11 Megadose en 2026-08-20T12:00:17+00:00 Agentic Search. More accurate and efficient results from your AI systems. https://megadose.ai/i/633fe229-8a34-450a-8d6d-32529f9d5035 Megadose en 2026-08-20T11:40:01+00:00 Source: Meta is spending hundreds of millions per year on Azure to consume trillions of AI tokens weekly, becoming one of Microsoft's largest AI customers (Brody Ford/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/2133ce9d-755c-48f7-9aba-891ce881e7d3 Megadose en 2026-08-20T11:00:59+00:00 PitchBook: California-based startups have raised ~$366B in 2026 so far across 4,000+ companies, more than triple the total of all other 49 states combined (Paul Kiernan/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/a70d88fe-54fd-4294-a674-0dabe821e634 Megadose en 2026-08-20T10:45:03+00:00 Muon Space, which is building a spacecraft platform for orbital data centers and AI computing, raised a $250M Series C, with participation from Google (Yash Roy/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/2892567a-73ce-4cb3-a41c-2505686925df Megadose en 2026-08-20T10:30:01+00:00 Stripe's OpenRouter deal, its largest-ever acquisition, is a bet on a future where users turn to a mix of AI models and gives it a foothold in the token market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/7de89f1e-44d5-4b26-8114-c100e1e6948f Megadose en 2026-08-20T10:15:01+00:00 Binance launches Agent OS, a platform that lets AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf; users set limits on AI agents' access and trades (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/4fc8a82a-fa13-4e4a-b60a-a32b7f17923d Megadose en 2026-08-20T09:55:00+00:00 Uber, Verne, and Pony.ai launch autonomous rides in Zagreb, making the Croatian capital the first European city where users can book such rides via Uber's app (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/2074956f-13e1-43d4-9811-c1c199d80ca7 Megadose en 2026-08-20T09:30:00+00:00 Binance now lets AI agents trade, but keeping them in check is largely up to users https://megadose.ai/i/6aaf1470-2308-4da0-8b4a-f9ea275e6dc4 Megadose en 2026-08-20T08:02:55+00:00 FlashPrefill V2: Block-Sparse Prefill Attention for Long-Context LLM Serving https://megadose.ai/i/cf720b2c-e10b-4524-85dd-2849a0983dd4 Megadose en 2026-08-20T06:50:01+00:00 London-based Callosum, whose software matches AI tasks with different models and chips, raised a $100M seed from Atomico, UK Sovereign AI Fund, and others (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/abfec895-70e1-4bcd-a1a0-7f3dbec3271e Megadose en 2026-08-20T06:20:01+00:00 A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab) https://megadose.ai/i/e49aabe0-bf4a-4d6b-9550-44857d74fe60 Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 Repo0: Design-Driven Zero-to-All Code Generation https://megadose.ai/i/47ac0e4b-821d-4161-9215-c1515014f681 Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 Inject, Align, Recover: Staged Post-Training for Retrieval-Free Document Knowledge Internalization https://megadose.ai/i/6395dbd8-3e98-4a0a-99d1-5ab8e34fdd47 Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 4DAnyone: Create Anyone in 4D from a Casual Monocular Video https://megadose.ai/i/5338e04c-d0fc-47e9-a3d5-fb66b5c346e7 Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 MemTrapBench: Benchmarking Cognitive Traps in LLM Memory Use https://megadose.ai/i/4fdea81c-643d-4ef4-8e7d-4735e1f1409d Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 WithEveryone: Unified Planning and Identity Grounding for Group Image Generation https://megadose.ai/i/19e607b7-8c8d-4818-bbe9-e11634abfe92 Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 EnvHarness: Awakening Static Worlds for Agent Learning https://megadose.ai/i/8d9506ed-2599-4d4b-86a5-81387c25f8da Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 EXIMO: VLM Guided Exploration of VLA Policies https://megadose.ai/i/f99e66b1-5310-40dc-bc14-fc6fc52d7c13 Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 PolicyGuide: From Guarding One Action to Guiding the Whole Workflow for Policy-Compliant LLM Agents https://megadose.ai/i/c3d53b89-5a37-422b-ab89-9952fa83962d Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 Listening Forward: Next Patch Embedding Prediction Enables Scalable Audio Learners https://megadose.ai/i/995356ae-4e62-4d03-8b48-cfd11099566f Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 Towards Quantifying Benchmark Optimization in ASR Models https://megadose.ai/i/e149f4ad-bd84-4cb7-8f4e-8f757ca0130c Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 SWE-bench Science: Can Coding Agents Resolve Engineering Tasks in Science? https://megadose.ai/i/21086de5-c026-4566-8cd9-d7ecd73a41d5 Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 GOAG: Generative and Object-Agnostic Grasp Planner for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation https://megadose.ai/i/803bd0ac-455e-452c-b09c-68617fe78b1e Megadose en 2026-08-20T00:00:00+00:00 CoToGrasp: Contact-Topology-Conditioned Dexterous Grasp Synthesis via Canonical Workspace Learning https://megadose.ai/i/65a6a9ab-b527-4766-9eae-aede711b8a9c Megadose en 2026-08-19T23:32:00+00:00 Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’ https://megadose.ai/i/f5ea9302-81df-414d-a9e4-707d6a211a49 Megadose en 2026-08-19T23:04:33+00:00 Exclusive: Early outputs of Muse Video model from Meta