https://megadose.ai/i/0e4c0d3b-8da8-4e6a-b714-9c43d02daac3 Megadose en 2026-08-04T15:35:02+00:00 Alpamayo 2 Super, Nvidia's frontier open reasoning model for robotaxis and AVs, is now available for commercial use under the OpenMDW-1.1 license (Jessica Soares/NVIDIA) https://megadose.ai/i/cfef660a-4274-4ea2-ae31-b0b0d826dc34 Megadose en 2026-08-04T14:20:01+00:00 Convex, which provides an AI-optimized application backend for developers, raised a $57M Series B led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to $110.5M (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) https://megadose.ai/i/7ee51f65-425d-4fe6-844e-361b2039da57 Megadose en 2026-08-04T13:15:01+00:00 Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure AI agents, raised an $85M Series D at a $1.1B valuation, after raising a $90M Series C in April 2022 (Akash Sriram/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/ad9122d6-643a-41a3-a13c-d54f2cb1299c Megadose en 2026-08-04T13:05:01+00:00 HappyRobot, which uses AI to automate freight operator communications, raised a $150M Series C at a $1.2B valuation, after a $44M Series B in September 2025 (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/eebad75b-78a7-42aa-9a10-baa557e89ed5 Megadose en 2026-08-04T12:25:29+00:00 Sources: Anthropic agreed to a $10B deal for computing capacity in Norway from Nvidia-backed AI cloud startup Volta; Volta says the deal runs for six years (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/dc04aa0b-f83c-4fe5-98af-a42f041c8a14 Megadose en 2026-08-04T12:00:26+00:00 Introducing Shieldstral. https://megadose.ai/i/f82e02f9-cdff-4b11-a982-742256a0f59f Megadose en 2026-08-04T11:35:03+00:00 AI cloud startup Volta raised $300M co-led by a16z and Altimeter at a $2.4B valuation and says it landed a $10B contract with an unnamed leading AI developer (Dina Bass/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/4dc8e60e-8645-416c-b968-9d22282889cd Megadose en 2026-08-04T08:25:00+00:00 Sources and filings: Google assembled a ~$200B financing program for Anthropic, with $150B+ tied to TPUs and involving Broadcom, Blackstone, Apollo, and others (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/90d4f95a-6c7d-43b2-b9f9-5d5826fb166d Megadose en 2026-08-04T03:49:14+00:00 [AINews] Qwen 3.8 Max(2.4T) and 27B, new open weights models for Coding and Cowork https://megadose.ai/i/c238689c-1e1a-46a8-8cc6-5bf7d27308a7 Megadose en 2026-08-03T20:35:01+00:00 Palantir reports Q2 revenue up 93% YoY to $1.94B, vs. $1.8B est., US commercial revenue up 149%, and raises FY 2026 revenue guidance; PLTR jumps 9%+ after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/15980416-d830-4c1e-9697-4b691c72123d Megadose en 2026-08-03T20:00:00+00:00 AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big https://megadose.ai/i/0d441a14-2485-4c53-9e6f-3d5dae243b2f Megadose en 2026-08-03T18:43:43+00:00 Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic? https://megadose.ai/i/7f005d56-43cf-4ff9-a694-77cd16fc83d0 Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:59:50+00:00 AURORA-LM: Autoencoding Unified Representation for Continuous-Latent Diffusion Language Modeling https://megadose.ai/i/5fe97bd8-8580-4564-b727-5c6ad547faba Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:58:27+00:00 onepot-Bench 0: towards lab-aware in silico chemistry benchmarks https://megadose.ai/i/a0535903-251f-4702-b5a7-85540b89d64a Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:55:24+00:00 GradCuit: Credit-Assigned Gradient Flow Enables Robust and Interpretable Test-Time Latent Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/728298cf-7e37-4257-9fac-4e4a6f55fee1 Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:51:58+00:00 CoWAM: Coordination Contracts for Selective Policy Intervention with WAMs https://megadose.ai/i/66da38b1-7c9d-4b99-a721-25858881215a Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:50:54+00:00 Pseudorandom Streams within Diffusion Models Act as Learnable Inputs That Affect Generation Quality https://megadose.ai/i/cdfe0a85-f78f-4474-a095-71526d90ee27 Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:45:58+00:00 AtumAI: A Principled Framework for Agentic Generation of Datacenter Control-Plane Policies https://megadose.ai/i/697a7c1a-090d-4c96-8b79-11039769fd0b Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:43:36+00:00 Structured Memory for Edge Language Models: Persistent Context and Corpus Retrieval via O(1) SSM State Injection https://megadose.ai/i/4cecd630-159c-4387-9ebf-01c1e7ca7c68 Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:41:20+00:00 Benchmarking Sheaf Neural Networks for Inductive Tasks https://megadose.ai/i/43b9a5c6-36a1-4293-92a5-16e317a44b8e Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:24:27+00:00 Uncertainty Is Not Enough: Value-of-Information Routing for Mixtures of LoRA Experts https://megadose.ai/i/62a823fb-892b-4ae2-8944-658361116aa9 Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:12:05+00:00 LiveMem: Maintaining Memory State Continuity in Long-Running LLM Inference https://megadose.ai/i/49b75e6e-0314-4c56-a514-09f940d02cb8 Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:07:50+00:00 RoMeRL: Balancing Feedback Coverage and the Memory-Reward Trap in Self-Evolving Agent Memory via Reduced-Order Utility States https://megadose.ai/i/654bbc03-5cd0-4b2f-8ef2-2e047cddd890 Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:04:43+00:00 CMuon: Accelerating and Stabilizing Diffusion Transformer Training via Chunked Momentum Orthogonalization https://megadose.ai/i/e258508b-6e3d-413f-81d6-a36d7df3d8e1 Megadose en 2026-08-03T17:03:19+00:00 SWE-Touch: Benchmarking Coding Agents When Users Touch the Code https://megadose.ai/i/7475b083-097b-4a99-996b-f67c40ae4955 Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:53:29+00:00 Computational and Statistical Guarantees of the \textit{c}-Rectified flow https://megadose.ai/i/fe03ac3d-df3f-485c-b420-02d6cc5ce333 Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:34:46+00:00 Real-Time Detection and Repair of LLM Agent Failures https://megadose.ai/i/818f0ba3-5286-4f48-8cf4-56e3552b21f5 Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:22:51+00:00 ParEvalLayer: When Partial LLM-Agent Evaluations Support a Decision https://megadose.ai/i/4da7b4b1-1f4d-4087-89b8-b51ed8117a26 Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:21:56+00:00 Right Answer, Wrong Method: Shortcut Hacking Misleads the Evaluation of LLM Reasoning on Frontier Science Benchmarks https://megadose.ai/i/7a45b973-20af-4888-a9f7-145e9f283373 Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:20:17+00:00 Agentic Commerce World: An Auditable and Verifiable Environment for Vibe Commerce https://megadose.ai/i/a629a7b0-551f-488c-bc52-6164eda04c00 Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:18:22+00:00 xPress: Parallel Refinement for Diffusion Drafters in Speculative Decoding https://megadose.ai/i/f879bfef-2b23-453a-a320-e37d3a47b3bd Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:15:01+00:00 Valar, which is making small modular nuclear reactors to power data centers, raised a $1B Series B led by Sequoia at a $6B post-money valuation (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/c4e82a1e-5e2a-4f2b-b645-5671c659da80 Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:10:29+00:00 Wasserstein mixing time of the unadjusted Langevin algorithm https://megadose.ai/i/f3e4e072-b882-4970-a8d0-3ddc0621aba1 Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:10:02+00:00 Mariana Minerals, which builds and operates mines using its MarianaOS software platform, raised a $310M Series B, bringing its total funding to $400M (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/10769ef0-979c-4460-b469-af11326d490e Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:03:16+00:00 Agentic Incident Response through Digital Twin-Enhanced Multiscale Planning https://megadose.ai/i/865bf9f5-0a80-4c53-a353-ee5b997d5950 Megadose en 2026-08-03T16:00:00+00:00 Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI https://megadose.ai/i/2e41e18b-5b13-421f-8320-bb09bd0262ed Megadose en 2026-08-03T13:46:04+00:00 Zenity, which develops a platform for securing AI agents, raised a $125M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, taking its total funding to ~$185M (Meir Orbach/CTech) https://megadose.ai/i/7a10bf97-48e5-4b4e-b87b-8b4616d7f196 Megadose en 2026-08-03T13:16:04+00:00 Visa plans to acquire Israeli company BioCatch, which uses AI to detect fraud and distinguish legitimate users from attackers in real time, for $2.4B in cash (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/8101df0b-bdaa-4df8-ac4d-7d5b97a8bcdc Megadose en 2026-08-03T13:01:58+00:00 Horizon3, whose AI penetration testing platform NodeZero helps find and exploit attack paths in production systems, raised a $250M Series E at a $2B valuation (Kate Park/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/f5cb956a-e4bc-400d-ac96-858e43c49853 Megadose en 2026-08-03T11:50:00+00:00 June, which aims to help enterprise AI deployment by finding bottlenecks and building agents, emerges from stealth with $20M led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/01ccb6e8-8702-4d07-b0b2-775d695dc878 Megadose en 2026-08-03T11:15:48+00:00 AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU https://megadose.ai/i/407f38b5-47b9-4ff8-a4f9-6248046b67ab Megadose en 2026-08-03T11:01:36+00:00 Sources: South Korean AI chip designer DeepX raised a ~$29M Series D at a ~$2.2B valuation, and is in talks to raise ~$209M at a ~$2.4B valuation by September (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/c6d1c094-444a-4360-8078-51054264dd20 Megadose en 2026-08-03T10:45:58+00:00 Alibaba prices Qwen3.8-Max at $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens via its API, below Kimi K3's $3/1M input tokens and $15/1M output tokens (Henry Siu/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/7dbd9e3c-a9c9-4efd-b562-2023d810d589 Megadose en 2026-08-03T10:30:55+00:00 Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/ae9cda75-8f5c-4896-9b4d-135d2e8a4cb0 Megadose en 2026-08-03T10:00:00+00:00 A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem https://megadose.ai/i/c1ea091f-de2e-47c3-aa37-62b9dcc00e97 Megadose en 2026-08-03T09:45:52+00:00 London-based AI chip startup Olix raised $312M led by Fundomo, with participation from Arm, at a $3.3B valuation, up from $1B+ after raising $220M in February (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/ba6e2131-2b2b-4abb-b177-29e9000bd0ac Megadose en 2026-08-03T07:00:00+00:00 How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months https://megadose.ai/i/130b059e-d314-4642-ac5e-b6f085979378 Megadose en 2026-08-03T03:40:01+00:00 Alibaba says its 2.4T-parameter Qwen3.8-Max tops Kimi K3 on some benchmarks, and plans to release the open weights of Qwen3.8-Max and Qwen3.8-27B next week (Luz Ding/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/0e97e50b-2a0f-4d65-9a2a-720be85909d1 Megadose en 2026-08-03T03:06:12+00:00 AI migrated legacy COBOL programs to Java, bugs included https://megadose.ai/i/4fdea6ce-5de7-4d29-9800-3baa7c1a8503 Megadose en 2026-08-03T02:16:09+00:00 Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork https://megadose.ai/i/197642ca-23d9-4d24-91a1-870e11e91e7a Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 SKT: Skill-Use Training at Scale via Verified Synthetic Data Generation https://megadose.ai/i/876ac684-88ed-4631-9d5e-7138c83e31cc Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 WorldExam: Benchmarking World Models from Apparent Appearance to Inherent Reactivity https://megadose.ai/i/4922e534-26eb-4b32-b70a-4bdf4e5553e5 Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 SWE-Touch: Benchmarking Coding Agents When Users Touch the Code https://megadose.ai/i/20739b45-c492-42e4-a847-e283c542ca89 Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 UEmbed: Unified Sparse and Dense Multimodal Embeddings https://megadose.ai/i/b3b88066-9ed6-4966-a7ed-d2da11064dd6 Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 SwanTale: Unified Multi-Speaker Speech and Audio Generation for Instruct and Zero-Shot Tasks https://megadose.ai/i/634abf02-6edd-4ddb-83ad-ba2cd5c7c243 Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 StyleForge: Indoor Furniture Styling by Counterfactual Reasoning in a Hypergraph Field https://megadose.ai/i/65f9d411-0486-4517-be15-baffd863282e Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 ScrambleToolBench: Agents Search Exhaustively Even When Their Own Map Points to the Next Step https://megadose.ai/i/de211624-132f-4c10-b7ba-283769bb49ed Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 Roomer: Reflective Object-Grounded Model Editing and Repair for 3D Indoor Layout Synthesis https://megadose.ai/i/aac7ad85-208a-42b8-83ee-ab964ffcf5c0 Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 Deferred Exposure of Future Trajectories for Verifiable Reasoning in Autonomous Driving VLMs https://megadose.ai/i/6bee3426-bc57-4f8a-9610-fd6ab376a565 Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 GradCuit: Credit-Assigned Gradient Flow Enables Robust and Interpretable Test-Time Latent Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/1618c998-3e1d-41db-bd73-2ed022063f2e Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 DeepVoyager-VL: Incentivizing Vision-in-the-Loop Search for Long-Horizon Multimodal Agents https://megadose.ai/i/765cf16e-50ec-45c1-b84c-21e493f2b280 Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 Motion Beyond Morphology: Bootstrapping Cross-Category Motion Transfer from Abstract Motion Representations https://megadose.ai/i/f7caa90e-78d9-4b58-b50f-ec2ac9232c6a Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 DAPD: Dual-Anchored Policy Distillation https://megadose.ai/i/fc138ccb-5e75-492a-bc7a-ee7c490dae53 Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 LongHorizon-Harness: Advancing Long-Horizon Agents for Real-World Tasks https://megadose.ai/i/cd72fcd7-0115-4bc3-9cc1-fd8b8d562590 Megadose en 2026-08-03T00:00:00+00:00 Progressive Agent Skill Generation via Reinforcement Learning