https://megadose.ai/i/fe532c0c-acc5-4ba3-9a9e-fbab5254e913 Megadose en 2026-08-08T07:20:31+00:00 xAI launches Imagine Image 2.0 in Grok Quality Mode https://megadose.ai/i/74ad5546-cbe3-46eb-a023-de807e3b6595 Megadose en 2026-08-08T01:45:00+00:00 Sources: Nvidia agrees to invest $2B in Lancium, the power infrastructure developer of the Stargate campus in Texas, plus $1B more if it hits certain thresholds (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/5e58a359-1a4e-4f28-a963-3c50086860fc Megadose en 2026-08-07T23:40:01+00:00 Filings: Moonshot restructured its China-based entity from a limited liability company to a joint stock company in its first visible step toward a Hong Kong IPO (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/4e8ecb6f-e806-4e88-961c-eed9d91fb3ea Megadose en 2026-08-07T22:45:03+00:00 Sources: Situational Awareness invested $500M, including $400M this week, into Source Foundry, a startup that plans to develop new AI chip manufacturing tools (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/2e61deb3-fa86-4e48-89c1-c9b4bec8ab54 Megadose en 2026-08-07T22:00:37+00:00 Sources: data center operator Switch filed confidentially for a US IPO, and a listing could take place as soon as November; Ben Horowitz is joining its board (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/1291ee2d-3da6-4f43-a20c-1e4bf964bff9 Megadose en 2026-08-07T21:30:11+00:00 After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool https://megadose.ai/i/7b584567-ff2c-4589-94ad-51400715a4e8 Megadose en 2026-08-07T19:30:01+00:00 Sources: Cursor told staff Thursday that SpaceX could complete its $60B acquisition as soon as next week and the Cursor brand name will likely be phased out (Grace Kay/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/793d83ee-cada-463c-a970-a698216ce21d Megadose en 2026-08-07T18:00:00+00:00 Munich-based NavVis, which provides enterprises with spatial data on factories, plants, buildings, and more, raised an $85M Series D led by The Jordan Company (Rahul Raj/EU-Startups) https://megadose.ai/i/d63a36a4-926b-496a-b0c3-167f3ff4cc6b Megadose en 2026-08-07T17:25:01+00:00 Sources: legal AI startup Harvey is in talks to raise $500M+ at a $15.5B valuation, up from $11B in March, and is generating $350M+ in annualized revenue (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/46d845b9-3a92-4577-a4e5-b17692ab8482 Megadose en 2026-08-07T16:50:02+00:00 Cloudflare introduces Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser for AI agents built on top of its Workers serverless service, available for free while in beta (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/d02d64d3-bcce-49ff-aea8-2709564da33d Megadose en 2026-08-07T16:20:00+00:00 Singapore-based Multiplier, which acquires accounting firms to boost their growth with AI tools, raised a $35M Series B led by TheGP at a $300M valuation (Maria Armental/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/9b8674bf-8492-496d-ba82-ff963c18aba0 Megadose en 2026-08-07T16:16:09+00:00 Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents https://megadose.ai/i/d77a86c3-4c19-41e7-b157-0df97c32902b Megadose en 2026-08-07T14:50:00+00:00 Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab raised a $130M Series B, bringing its total funding to more than $480M (Mars W. Mosqueda Jr/DealStreetAsia) https://megadose.ai/i/f59a3b7d-14ff-4bdc-97ba-bc18d090cbde Megadose en 2026-08-07T14:22:49+00:00 Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function https://megadose.ai/i/791ce868-c9c8-4996-9e24-8ca5e968a12f Megadose en 2026-08-07T12:59:07+00:00 lightx2v/Minimax-h3-Turbo lands on Hugging Face https://megadose.ai/i/89238437-f855-4e58-8332-dddb4a431778 Megadose en 2026-08-07T12:12:49+00:00 OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.6 Luna to Free ChatGPT users https://megadose.ai/i/2aed204b-c92d-4766-9ae6-d6c143a46a2b Megadose en 2026-08-07T12:09:11+00:00 ICYMI: Prime Intellect releases open-source Prime Agent https://megadose.ai/i/f3860d65-0cf7-47ef-8f06-2d43f9ffcbb4 Megadose en 2026-08-07T11:00:34+00:00 Athens-based Omilia, which builds self-learning AI agents that work across different customer contact points, raised a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/c0ccaa93-27db-4139-aefd-777153884b16 Megadose en 2026-08-07T09:45:01+00:00 SK Hynix plans a $38B chipmaking expansion in South Korea, including a new ~$24.7B DRAM facility in Yongin and a ~$13.3B NAND fabrication plant in Cheongju (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/b2a1acca-93de-4f87-9e15-e2e924058391 Megadose en 2026-08-07T09:05:01+00:00 Sources: Google's AI shakeup is a seismic shift in the works for months and cements Sergey Brin's influence, after execs became frustrated with Demis Hassabis (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/e4ddc3a5-104f-4aa7-a15d-9867ed51e7c4 Megadose en 2026-08-07T06:16:06+00:00 Filing: ex-a16z partner Bryan Kim is forming venture firm Mido Capital; sources: he plans to raise ~$100M for a fund backing early-stage AI and other startups (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/a43c7115-3825-45b3-8a33-57c19874b136 Megadose en 2026-08-07T05:13:46+00:00 [AINews] AMD buys Taalas https://megadose.ai/i/c4e61e31-5e2d-47c5-b1d7-de53e1379241 Megadose en 2026-08-07T05:01:55+00:00 Sources: ByteDance is pre-training an AI model with up to 10T parameters, roughly 3x Kimi K3 and potentially larger than estimates for Anthropic's Mythos 5 (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/cb25281b-f7ef-4710-b3c9-b2b6845076e3 Megadose en 2026-08-07T03:55:01+00:00 Sydney-based AI data center company Firmus raised $2B in funding from Coatue, Nvidia, and others at a $10.5B post-money valuation, up from $5.5B in April (Nichiket Sunil/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/2200243c-868d-402e-80cb-a601f8f4b398 Megadose en 2026-08-07T03:31:05+00:00 Naïve, which provides infrastructure for AI agents to handle most business operations, raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus, bringing its total funding to $32M (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/f877ebff-6051-450c-adc7-c8d51b917745 Megadose en 2026-08-07T02:46:03+00:00 Sources: Alibaba plans to ask heavy commercial users of its next Qwen open model for a share of revenue; Moonshot's Kimi K3 requires up to a 30% revenue share (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/b53b1af7-2874-4d00-ade7-3b4347872315 Megadose en 2026-08-06T23:25:01+00:00 Alphabet raises $25B in a bond sale; sources say the offering attracted roughly $115B of peak demand and that the company plans to issue US debt twice a year (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/08ee5821-e6a7-4512-8b6a-51d53442f744 Megadose en 2026-08-06T22:01:28+00:00 Sources: Canva slashed revenue growth forecast as heavy use of new AI features drove up costs and slowed their rollout, while more Canva users turned to ChatGPT (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/bc0d011e-b932-44db-a5be-8508215f6af0 Megadose en 2026-08-06T20:23:11+00:00 AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon https://megadose.ai/i/8461f629-9d3e-45d6-891d-2f3e7faf59e6 Megadose en 2026-08-06T20:20:01+00:00 AMD acquires Toronto-based Taalas, which integrates model weights directly into silicon to boost inference performance, for an undisclosed sum (Tobias Mann/The Register) https://megadose.ai/i/a893bde1-09ef-4cdc-bc7f-eda92d41902d Megadose en 2026-08-06T20:01:31+00:00 Gravity, which places text-based ads within AI chatbots, raised a $30.5M Series A co-led by Lightspeed and Committed, taking its total funding to $38.5M (Lara O'Reilly/Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/17c2e69d-7f50-4958-a6e9-b8d126fe3423 Megadose en 2026-08-06T18:50:00+00:00 Scientists trained AI on genetic sequences to design viruses not found in nature, yielding viable viruses that can infect bacteria but pose no threat to humans (Carl Zimmer/New York Times) https://megadose.ai/i/d4aa1bec-408a-421b-af79-4850b85cbc7d Megadose en 2026-08-06T18:45:43+00:00 Sources: Panthalassa, which aims to power data centers in the ocean using energy generated by waves, is raising $225M at a ~$2B valuation, up from $1B in May (Julia Hornstein/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/26fe051a-4014-4c11-8acc-78c0b68ba052 Megadose en 2026-08-06T18:44:49+00:00 Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index https://megadose.ai/i/446ba166-9c74-4177-aafe-e73cbea0daf1 Megadose en 2026-08-06T18:40:01+00:00 Sources: Nscale told potential backers it generated $100M+ in Q2 revenue, up from $37M in Q1, and has $51B in contracts, ahead of a possible September US IPO (Bailey Lipschultz/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/ed95a1cd-7893-4435-81a6-e58485f02ed9 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:59:58+00:00 Learning When to Trust via Selective Context Preference Optimization https://megadose.ai/i/23331a43-2af0-41d7-a249-c06a74044b88 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:58:32+00:00 The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling https://megadose.ai/i/9b9ab801-5070-4907-baca-5cd0eebc0856 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:57:25+00:00 An Optimal Agnostic PAC Algorithm https://megadose.ai/i/b04a8681-b7ae-4983-b592-2f6e6a1aa438 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:57:11+00:00 AV-AIVAT: 74x Cheaper Agent Evaluation with Certified Anytime-Valid Stopping in Imperfect-Information Games https://megadose.ai/i/043fdf7a-1a2b-4c02-9027-89571f1724bf Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:57:06+00:00 The Low Frequency Trap: Video Language Models Fail at Simple Event Bookkeeping https://megadose.ai/i/6a28243a-b665-4625-8c9c-c756d5558ca7 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:52:06+00:00 RP-OPSD: Reasoning-Pivot-Guided On-Policy Self-Distillation for Multilingual Reasoning Transfer https://megadose.ai/i/705e84ae-3bd1-4a94-b7f7-e9576775f7b8 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:51:20+00:00 TRAJDEBUG: Tracing Error Lifecycle to Identify Critical Failures in Long-Horizon Agent Trajectories https://megadose.ai/i/dabefa36-ea42-43ad-a8ca-a55f9470c710 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:45:32+00:00 Optimal Rates for Learning with Monotone Adversaries https://megadose.ai/i/f473ab3d-1477-4c9a-ad4c-482ef6cdbde2 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:40:26+00:00 Tytan: Interactive Neurosymbolic Construction of Analytic Semantic Schemas from Relational Data https://megadose.ai/i/60f1fe60-6a5f-467c-a6cc-5d38de34e909 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:39:21+00:00 Benchmarking the Benchmarks: Evaluating Benchmarks for Conversational Agents https://megadose.ai/i/263435c0-e05d-4212-97c1-59b150a095d5 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:34:42+00:00 ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users https://megadose.ai/i/a4568abe-1d21-4c2b-a122-48690c0ed3de Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:27:23+00:00 Benchmarking and Enhancing LLMs for Rule-Intensive Review of National Standard Documents https://megadose.ai/i/76ef70f3-a34a-4364-a583-16de1d45f750 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:24:36+00:00 RRC: Unlocking Generative Reward Models in LLM Reinforcement Learning via Ranking-Based Reward Construction https://megadose.ai/i/8e459e91-841f-4998-86c3-cf624dfb7879 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:23:13+00:00 Beyond Top-K: Replacing Black-Box Retrieval with Interpretable Agentic Operations https://megadose.ai/i/884d1241-8adf-4c73-a3dd-d7e49c485ce2 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:21:05+00:00 HarnessOpt-Bench: Evaluating LLMs at Harness Optimization https://megadose.ai/i/e645d905-69f7-4919-a110-884539ee94b8 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:20:02+00:00 OpenAI updates the default model for free users to GPT-5.6 Luna, adds unlimited text chats for free users, rolls out an improved GPT-5.6 Sol version, and more (Herb Scribner/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/1f895bd7-2d91-4af5-ac53-befe6403058c Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:18:23+00:00 On-Policy Self-Distillation without Any Supervision https://megadose.ai/i/24c6c3bd-abd5-450b-966e-8108fa3a7364 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:16:28+00:00 NeSy-RAG: Neuro-Symbolic RAG for Explainable Question Answering https://megadose.ai/i/86f1ddfa-2c65-4045-8802-2d77dab640ae Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:15:42+00:00 OpenAI introduces Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers, and says its steering committee includes Amazon, Microsoft, and Cursor (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) https://megadose.ai/i/0cfa7b57-8384-460e-a88a-40d5ea557de4 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:15:37+00:00 BaKron: Efficient Quantization with Kronecker-Factored Hessians https://megadose.ai/i/0b40bf11-4dd8-43fe-b69f-50b3bfda7ea8 Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:01:08+00:00 The Illusion of Visual Tool-Use: A Causal Audit of Thinking with Images https://megadose.ai/i/955949b3-4338-45fa-b9ca-a938f382842b Megadose en 2026-08-06T17:00:37+00:00 Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company https://megadose.ai/i/208137b9-2040-4518-bc87-7b8530077c8f Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:56:44+00:00 Improving the Realism of Synthetic Clinical Benchmarks Under Utility Constraints https://megadose.ai/i/b1e9e2be-f2e7-47ff-8d21-771d79ccc47c Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:40:00+00:00 Google DeepMind says its WeatherNext model can accurately predict a storm's track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data, and open sources the model (Victoria Turk/Wired) https://megadose.ai/i/0810c8bf-508a-4c04-adff-a9b6176cd88c Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:29:24+00:00 DASH: Divergence-Adaptive Supervision Horizons for On-Policy Self-Distillation of Reasoning Models https://megadose.ai/i/5e4ec1a4-bacd-4356-ba08-616b245cbfde Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:27:54+00:00 Timestep-Conditioned Transformers for Global Weather Forecasting https://megadose.ai/i/8e669a97-b393-44c4-9a58-e98d8259a1bb Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:26:43+00:00 PRISM: Distribution-Gated Flow Matching for Controllable Unpaired Image Translation https://megadose.ai/i/76e40611-6b45-4c7c-8bf8-1f8c8d1e8b71 Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:25:08+00:00 Sources: Nvidia is considering lower-memory versions of its Rubin Ultra GPU due to potential issues securing enough HBM, and has tested at least three versions (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/888e9a26-bdd8-449b-ab4c-21de387d2235 Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:20:01+00:00 Sources: Stripe recently entered exclusive talks to buy OpenRouter in a cash-and-stock deal that would value the startup for close to $10B (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/dfedb676-aa23-4ccf-8425-676ab3c9d498 Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:12:57+00:00 TS-RAG: Retrieval Augmented Generation for Time Series Forecasting https://megadose.ai/i/b5e438a6-c6c3-43bd-84c9-c7fcb874ee1f Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:09:56+00:00 Muon on the Stiefel Manifold Admits an Exact Closed-Form Update https://megadose.ai/i/9352ce8e-21b0-4e66-a353-39d610084b67 Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:07:26+00:00 Continual Learning in Transition https://megadose.ai/i/739c5668-04c1-4ff9-8ba8-65c9b3cd88aa Megadose en 2026-08-06T16:05:03+00:00 Demis Hassabis stepping down as Google DeepMind CEO may weaken the UK tech scene, marking an end for Hassabis' effort to keep his native UK as an AI stronghold (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/70bdb818-0d04-4241-b3a7-3f7c70ff3b03 Megadose en 2026-08-06T15:59:57+00:00 Beyond Marginal Validity: Finite-Sample Guarantees for Localized Conformal Prediction https://megadose.ai/i/c1867f5d-8de1-4e67-a216-1fb48d49d0de Megadose en 2026-08-06T15:54:36+00:00 EnvACE: Internalizing Environment Dynamics via World Rehearsal for Agentic Reinforcement Learning https://megadose.ai/i/0750fb82-11b5-4dbc-8ac0-de6c8c250748 Megadose en 2026-08-06T15:50:01+00:00 Datadog drops 15%+ after forecasting weaker full-year sales due to reduced usage from its largest client, a leading AI company; Q2 revenue rises 36% to $1.12B (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/c6362e1b-470f-4d10-bb99-9c2a211db964 Megadose en 2026-08-06T15:30:37+00:00 WindBorne, which deploys weather balloons to collect data for its AI weather forecasting models, raised a $37M Series B at a $250M post-money valuation (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/15455142-a25e-48bd-bb84-a9f89fb15626 Megadose en 2026-08-06T15:06:15+00:00 WeatherNext: AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones