https://megadose.ai/i/c99be1c0-7181-47e2-aa1c-9188077b30b6 Megadose en 2026-05-03T05:00:57+00:00 Palo Alto Networks agrees to acquire Portkey, which develops AI gateway tech to manage and secure AI agents; sources say the deal values Portkey at $120M-$140M (The Economic Times) https://megadose.ai/i/e203e209-493c-4f84-bd5d-9d37d6ca688d Megadose en 2026-05-02T15:28:13+00:00 LLMs consistently pick resumes they generate over ones by humans or other models https://megadose.ai/i/c9eaabed-7bd8-467f-a87e-38da13a696aa Megadose en 2026-05-02T14:00:21+00:00 Anthropic in Talks to Buy AI Chips From U.K. Startup https://megadose.ai/i/ab531658-6751-4f6a-b979-bd0485dd78aa Megadose en 2026-05-02T13:15:23+00:00 Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction https://megadose.ai/i/3592a17d-00b9-4e6f-8831-3b5944258a95 Megadose en 2026-05-02T04:15:01+00:00 Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised $125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/67c4dde1-a7ba-45ce-ba55-4589de582418 Megadose en 2026-05-01T22:55:00+00:00 xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring "always-on reasoning", 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat) https://megadose.ai/i/55fa535d-2c4d-49d7-b23a-9e8efd8dc341 Megadose en 2026-05-01T22:13:27+00:00 Meta buys robotic startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions https://megadose.ai/i/cf7f2972-c51e-47cd-aafe-43e2cc3aedc7 Megadose en 2026-05-01T22:13:27+00:00 Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions https://megadose.ai/i/9c891727-4773-47a3-a72c-783e06546723 Megadose en 2026-05-01T21:10:00+00:00 Sources: Cerebras is seeking to raise as much as $4B in its IPO and is targeting a valuation of about $40B (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/3ac6cab3-1753-43dd-a266-373c1f5737f6 Megadose en 2026-05-01T18:53:43+00:00 Founders Fund Raises $6 Billion to Invest in Later-Stage Startups https://megadose.ai/i/9630a493-11b9-4f96-a8ab-40d4590ff9f9 Megadose en 2026-05-01T18:05:16+00:00 Meta Acquires Robotics AI Startup https://megadose.ai/i/0a8397c0-ecb1-4317-9a49-9b9d2a7e1389 Megadose en 2026-05-01T18:00:40+00:00 Meta acquires a startup Assured Robot Intelligence to bolster its robotics team, which is working on humanoid hardware and the underlying AI that powers it (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/66d7ba5a-d6ae-4a7c-94b2-5e109c9df9ca Megadose en 2026-05-01T16:08:53+00:00 Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months https://megadose.ai/i/9c401609-d90e-458d-bad0-b0790168c657 Megadose en 2026-05-01T14:45:01+00:00 Sources: Coatue formed Next Frontier in 2025 to buy land for data centers; Next Frontier has a JV with neocloud Fluidstack that's raised $5.7B via junk bonds (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/db8d2123-30d3-4335-b200-79ed796d6305 Megadose en 2026-05-01T14:20:01+00:00 Pentagon Signs Classified AI Deals with Seven Companies Following Anthropic Spat https://megadose.ai/i/96af6a3e-e6a5-4c06-86cd-a2027edc2f93 Megadose en 2026-05-01T14:10:02+00:00 The US Navy awards Domino Data Lab a contract worth up to $100M for AI software that teaches underwater drones to identify new mines in the Strait of Hormuz (Mike Stone/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/5b5c2a98-403b-4aa1-8970-0522c21ad971 Megadose en 2026-05-01T14:00:38+00:00 Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised $6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; $4.5B comes from limited partners (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/218493ff-2ead-47fe-a0f6-d1f73be922db Megadose en 2026-05-01T12:50:01+00:00 Amazon launches "Join the chat", an AI-powered feature that allows users to ask questions about products and receive conversational audio responses in real time (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/79954f25-a9a9-4ad8-b09c-abedf1e767b1 Megadose en 2026-05-01T11:50:02+00:00 Sources: the US DOD strikes agreements with Nvidia, Microsoft, Reflection AI, and AWS to use their AI tools on classified military networks for "lawful" use (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/6c6ec479-3c22-4f86-bae2-b2bf57a8f4e1 Megadose en 2026-05-01T10:55:02+00:00 Cloud computing provider Nebius agrees to buy Eigen AI, which optimizes the performance of chips running AI inference tasks, for $615M in stock and cash (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)