https://megadose.ai/i/3dd73130-1af6-43b0-bb7c-56efbad254aa Megadose en 2026-08-13T22:25:01+00:00 Sources: OpenAI is on track to generate annualized revenue of $40B+ based on its current performance, roughly doubling its run rate from the end of 2025 (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/1088713e-0df1-42be-afd5-7834a3d0fbb6 Megadose en 2026-08-13T21:40:02+00:00 OpenAI launches Computer History, an opt-in feature that turns recent computer activity on macOS into memories and a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can use (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack) https://megadose.ai/i/56b84792-d86f-4841-ac0b-38cd9b956d7e Megadose en 2026-08-13T21:22:35+00:00 Google launches Sheets canvas for Gemini mini-apps https://megadose.ai/i/bb0735fb-623c-4ed7-88a8-8bcc9fa42023 Megadose en 2026-08-13T21:18:35+00:00 Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding and AI agents https://megadose.ai/i/1cdfacfc-0809-4906-982c-47f50c17ff4e Megadose en 2026-08-13T21:13:24+00:00 Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs https://megadose.ai/i/3d017dba-6b28-48b2-81d3-77d631bab374 Megadose en 2026-08-13T21:02:41+00:00 OpenAI previews Ultrafast API tier for GPT-5.6 Sol https://megadose.ai/i/b3b897e6-5086-48ff-ac95-0d95513f4b98 Megadose en 2026-08-13T21:01:30+00:00 ICYMI: xAI releases Grok 4.6 for long-running agent work https://megadose.ai/i/b4a9e257-6193-413a-af3c-33c6ac196763 Megadose en 2026-08-13T20:50:01+00:00 Anthropic details multiagent experiments showing Claude agents can wage a "turf war" over incompatible goals, fail to coordinate, collude on prices, and more (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/9b5ab8d6-74d7-44e3-af3b-d02f267b4e8b Megadose en 2026-08-13T20:14:39+00:00 Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation. https://megadose.ai/i/d8464fbc-08d9-4c98-a1a6-8a61252e4c7a Megadose en 2026-08-13T19:22:40+00:00 OpenAI introduces ‘Ultrafast,’ a new mode that makes GPT 5.6 Sol work at 14x the speed https://megadose.ai/i/d12396e9-ba7d-43b5-9f49-4f68a2be6137 Megadose en 2026-08-13T19:01:22+00:00 Sources: Vantage Data Centers, a major hyperscale developer, is exploring options including a sale or an IPO at a valuation of about $100B as soon as next year (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/fb20cf2e-e335-4603-a13b-80e6bcf9725c Megadose en 2026-08-13T18:12:44+00:00 Matic robot adds gesture and voice controls in 75 languages https://megadose.ai/i/290fd332-75a0-4c95-a90c-b60cbec05c48 Megadose en 2026-08-13T17:35:01+00:00 OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API tier powered by Cerebras that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14× faster and generates up to 750 output tokens per second (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) https://megadose.ai/i/5c4fbc97-77af-4c5a-a225-73b0d9060375 Megadose en 2026-08-13T17:23:22+00:00 Gemini 3.7 Flash https://megadose.ai/i/4a7fb150-837d-4b33-9f85-9e39d4ac2c2d Megadose en 2026-08-13T17:07:13+00:00 OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues https://megadose.ai/i/a66ee139-efaa-4d0c-81a7-ce0085577bc9 Megadose en 2026-08-13T17:06:42+00:00 Google unveils Gemini 3.7 Flash, its "most intelligent workhorse model" for coding and agents, pricing it at $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens at launch (Tulsee Doshi/Google) https://megadose.ai/i/b76025a9-3664-4aae-919f-88c902c3d55c Megadose en 2026-08-13T17:04:18+00:00 Introducing Gemini 3.7 Flash https://megadose.ai/i/5ec5dfde-d9bb-4fe0-b897-6221aca55d56 Megadose en 2026-08-13T16:20:03+00:00 OpenAI hires Dali Rajic, COO of Alphabet's Wiz, as chief revenue officer, replacing ex-Slack CEO Denise Dresser, who was hired in December 2025 and will leave (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/c83043d1-b9b3-4aa4-9356-558f05b4fbff Megadose en 2026-08-13T15:40:01+00:00 Sources: AMD plans to raise as much as $5B in what could be the chipmaker's biggest-ever investment-grade bond sale, as it ramps up spending to meet AI demand (Brian W Smith/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/e29e88fb-d2c4-4fcb-8d56-17829ce389c7 Megadose en 2026-08-13T15:35:01+00:00 DeepSeek raises prices, adding dynamic pricing, ahead of a potential IPO; V4-Flash output tokens go from $0.28/1M to $1.32 during peak hours and $0.66 off-peak (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/c7a87339-21af-4c2f-a568-9f6649440648 Megadose en 2026-08-13T15:08:00+00:00 Nvidia’s new $500B plan is risky but brilliant, especially for aging GPUs https://megadose.ai/i/7bf6fb63-b649-4a58-aca7-044980efafa3 Megadose en 2026-08-13T14:34:43+00:00 Apple in talks to pay publishers to provide Siri with current news: report https://megadose.ai/i/5e0c1d44-7427-49ca-9915-1b1fc2b828b9 Megadose en 2026-08-13T14:25:02+00:00 Databricks closed a $5B funding round at a $190B valuation, six months after raising $5B at a $134B valuation, and says it has crossed $7B in revenue run rate (Samantha Subin/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/13117f1e-79e4-46fc-93a9-bbca6d1fbb3e Megadose en 2026-08-13T13:45:27+00:00 Microsoft begins merging its consumer and commercial Copilot apps into a single app, with a mobile and web rollout in mid-August and desktop in mid-September (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) https://megadose.ai/i/6e09a7b3-4b4b-4656-ab21-7e51a602183c Megadose en 2026-08-13T13:15:23+00:00 Inside SK Hynix's $720B Yongin Cluster, which it calls the world's largest network of memory factories and is set to go into production in February 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/dd90db8d-fcee-43ee-9761-13d62591a2cc Megadose en 2026-08-13T13:15:23+00:00 Leutenegger/book-to-skill https://megadose.ai/i/c15ebc6f-de7d-4d7d-9276-b20b827577e2 Megadose en 2026-08-13T12:58:02+00:00 DeepSeek Harness developer preview https://megadose.ai/i/b50bc101-aef2-4657-b2e2-8bd0b2cd4c58 Megadose en 2026-08-13T10:20:04+00:00 Sources: Anthropic investors expect it to float at a $2T+ valuation after an October IPO and to hit $100B to $120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/34900603-1117-4987-bf2c-03ccc7cd5de2 Megadose en 2026-08-13T10:05:01+00:00 DeepSeek launches V4-Pro, its most advanced model that rivals Kimi K3 on some benchmarks at much lower prices, costing $0.44/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens (Juro Osawa/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/71a16667-a447-486e-ace4-7eebc6862621 Megadose en 2026-08-13T10:00:00+00:00 Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed https://megadose.ai/i/b30cfebc-69c5-4e4a-bce5-dd42589c64d5 Megadose en 2026-08-13T09:00:00+00:00 OpenAI appoints Dali Rajic as Chief Revenue Officer https://megadose.ai/i/1b190ecd-abf4-41fb-b80d-d0f546eb7943 Megadose en 2026-08-13T07:35:00+00:00 In Q2 2026, server-led eSSDs reached 48% of NAND flash shipments as AI workloads shifted from training to inference, driving 5x YoY industry revenue growth (Counterpoint Research) https://megadose.ai/i/41592115-0bb1-45e5-8d66-da6de82c2486 Megadose en 2026-08-13T06:55:02+00:00 Lenovo reports Q1 revenue up 43% YoY to $26.94B, its highest quarterly revenue growth in five years, as AI-related revenue rose 60% YoY to $9.3B, 35% of total (Laurie Chen/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/18e2691a-d71a-4b8b-a182-75234b2d7d13 Megadose en 2026-08-13T06:25:02+00:00 Mathematicians say a neurosurgery resident used ChatGPT, powered by GPT-5.6, to solve Crouzeix's conjecture, a major open problem in numerical linear algebra (Alex Townsend) https://megadose.ai/i/b2793ddb-ad42-4b5f-a95c-0fc53ae1efa5 Megadose en 2026-08-13T05:25:01+00:00 London- and Boston-based Mindgard, which offers automated AI security and red-teaming tools to help organizations secure AI systems, raised a $30M Series A (Ionut Arghire/SecurityWeek) https://megadose.ai/i/744f193c-4ffe-4a91-863e-59e5efcb8d02 Megadose en 2026-08-13T04:55:01+00:00 Sources: legal AI startup Legora is in early talks to raise funds at a $10B+ valuation, up from $5.6B four months ago; its ARR rose 50% QoQ to $150M in Q2 (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/bbf4d171-2771-4611-82be-5741df5428cb Megadose en 2026-08-13T02:05:03+00:00 Sources: Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart, which offers real-time generative video and GPU optimization tech, for about $6B (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/c4c4f0e0-c5ff-43d1-8853-560b120133a1 Megadose en 2026-08-13T01:10:00+00:00 Sources: former Google exec Jeff Dean is in talks for $1B in funding at a ~$10B valuation for his new science and engineering-focused AI startup, Discovery Loop (Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/e84d7eb1-9381-4711-ac1d-ff16e28fb044 Megadose en 2026-08-12T23:59:23+00:00 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) https://megadose.ai/i/f67d2214-ee56-4b65-bcbe-6f5283f2ed6b Megadose en 2026-08-12T23:10:01+00:00 Sources: Apple is discussing multiyear content deals with publishers to deliver current news and information for Siri AI, with a potential nine-figure budget (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/585f3d98-8196-4e72-957b-c6d3fb5e6a71 Megadose en 2026-08-12T21:00:13+00:00 Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $17.25B, vs. $16.82B est., AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers worth $4B, forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est. (Juby Babu/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/5f51187d-b7b9-49b7-a478-f0b46c7ad152 Megadose en 2026-08-12T20:55:00+00:00 Cerebras reports Q2 revenue up 74% YoY to $180M and raises its annual revenue and gross margin forecasts; CBRS drops 14%+ after hours (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/106c3082-0ff9-496e-ac1a-980b4bf6f296 Megadose en 2026-08-12T20:20:01+00:00 Mistral says its platform will support third-party open models, starting with Z.ai's GLM-5.2, and run them on the same infrastructure as its own models (Mistral AI Blog) https://megadose.ai/i/4c1b74ce-6127-4bf0-ab3c-5fd0c0865615 Megadose en 2026-08-12T18:19:12+00:00 AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation https://megadose.ai/i/683cbbc5-2562-48f2-b4f6-f608622ae872 Megadose en 2026-08-12T18:15:01+00:00 Sources detail moves behind Google's AI reshuffle; Sergey Brin urged key staff to go all in on Gemini, and some teams shifted from DeepMind to corporate Google (Kenrick Cai/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/8781efbc-8496-4cc7-9c16-e769cd0bf0db Megadose en 2026-08-12T17:58:02+00:00 AVA-Encoder: Towards Agent-Native Video Representation Learning https://megadose.ai/i/a967ac5b-9276-428f-9f31-b41bde5eb3c8 Megadose en 2026-08-12T17:54:33+00:00 DreamFly: Causal Memory and Receding-Horizon Diffusion Planning for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation https://megadose.ai/i/2d8430a1-c804-4c8d-b9d0-267c6f75c72a Megadose en 2026-08-12T17:53:18+00:00 AI4AI at Test-Time: Strong-to-Weak Capability Transfer via Harnesses https://megadose.ai/i/227e7be2-6e4f-4ed9-b575-88daa35ba2f7 Megadose en 2026-08-12T17:53:15+00:00 Redistribution-based Cost Inference Improves Sparse Safe Offline RL https://megadose.ai/i/8bd48fef-1b67-4692-9459-634d533749fb Megadose en 2026-08-12T17:41:29+00:00 OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise https://megadose.ai/i/e48266e4-bb83-479b-948e-8fd0a0f0d6c1 Megadose en 2026-08-12T17:35:16+00:00 Beyond Trial-and-Error: Agentic Optimization for Image-to-Video Adherence https://megadose.ai/i/67f85290-c848-46e9-b31b-232d87d5259e Megadose en 2026-08-12T17:27:27+00:00 VAKRA: Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning Across APIs and Retrieval Under Tool-Use Policies https://megadose.ai/i/cdc23ec1-efc2-4842-838e-125a5015cc0f Megadose en 2026-08-12T17:12:49+00:00 Convergent Detour Hijacking: Task-Preserving Resource Amplification in Skill-Based LLM Agents https://megadose.ai/i/65c6a4ce-361c-4ff5-9c68-7c9eb63c0b87 Megadose en 2026-08-12T17:10:42+00:00 Earth observation embeddings are effective sub-grid descriptors for probabilistic weather downscaling https://megadose.ai/i/34af3709-acbb-4102-9f87-555c6aa41438 Megadose en 2026-08-12T17:04:13+00:00 Diagram-MMU: A Multi-Modal Benchmark for Scientific Diagrams https://megadose.ai/i/0d53f689-4326-4e8a-bd7d-7255733d0c2f Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:55:50+00:00 One Frozen Simulator Is Not Enough: Simulator Collapse in Multi-Agent RL https://megadose.ai/i/f0e29ce9-b08d-429d-8bf5-56707c4622cc Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:54:25+00:00 Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index https://megadose.ai/i/39285dca-04a3-4d1b-a7a5-a4004fb9e940 Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:48:47+00:00 An Agentic Workflow for Legacy HPC Modernization: Converting the Two-Electron-Integral Core of GAMESS https://megadose.ai/i/b5f4a344-4f1d-4645-8021-d0d3bb0d1337 Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:45:49+00:00 VICBench: A Multi-Language Benchmark for Code Vulnerability Detection https://megadose.ai/i/65b4e522-067a-47d8-bbf3-6ec8235fc773 Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:26:16+00:00 Qwen3.8-2.4T https://megadose.ai/i/374325cd-607c-4811-b962-6afdbd4a1f48 Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:20:34+00:00 Lovable raises $400M Series C https://megadose.ai/i/eb94ae1a-6860-466f-a02a-249e43edab9e Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:17:50+00:00 NoimosAI launches SEO Agent 2.0 for automated optimization https://megadose.ai/i/25829e71-604d-4162-994a-f315870864e6 Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:14:25+00:00 SCOUT: Unlocking Enhanced Spatial Reasoning via Structured Chain-of-Thought and Multi-Objective Process Reward https://megadose.ai/i/8075f5d8-c3b0-4a02-989c-e5c644935ac6 Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:13:50+00:00 ScreenShot: A Foundation Model for Few-Shot Combination Drug Screening https://megadose.ai/i/ffa32fb4-35d9-4b79-bd5a-b9c20a891631 Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:13:05+00:00 Information Abundance Paradox: Long-Context Training Undermines Parametric Knowledge https://megadose.ai/i/51421324-2672-4f0a-bc10-c6abcbe41cc9 Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:10:00+00:00 Bank of America says it plans to deploy $250B by July 2027 to support US digital and infrastructure projects, including data centers and energy infrastructure (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/c5cf7eab-b764-44b8-84d9-967e8da5913c Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:04:50+00:00 DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 https://megadose.ai/i/12fd1b03-4ff9-4f22-9ff0-fce65354a218 Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:04:27+00:00 Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M https://megadose.ai/i/0f8693c8-0870-430c-a366-d8fddcc90a4e Megadose en 2026-08-12T16:00:00+00:00 MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities https://megadose.ai/i/83731a3b-455a-48e1-b38c-128c2e2e8e67 Megadose en 2026-08-12T15:51:52+00:00 NetlistBench: Evaluating LLM Reliability in SPICE Netlist Recognition and Manipulation https://megadose.ai/i/ad3415b6-76d5-4dbd-8600-961d9872c5cd Megadose en 2026-08-12T15:48:36+00:00 HYDRA: Hyperbolic Dynamic Representation Architecture for Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks https://megadose.ai/i/006c26ea-682e-403e-b59d-ac854406cb59 Megadose en 2026-08-12T15:35:01+00:00 SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.6, saying it matches GPT-5.6 Sol on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and prices it at $2/1M input and $6/1M output tokens (xAI) https://megadose.ai/i/334f4427-1989-42dd-bee0-c43beaafea42 Megadose en 2026-08-12T15:35:01+00:00 Silicon Data, which offers real-time compute pricing data to financial institutions and exchanges, raised a $30.5M Series A led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund (Chris Metinko/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/a089b3ea-cbd6-426d-a006-43da70f1de01 Megadose en 2026-08-12T15:32:50+00:00 Grok 4.6 https://megadose.ai/i/8b177d28-71ad-41ec-91da-bfc0dc7bc08a Megadose en 2026-08-12T15:11:35+00:00 Who Thinks Best Depends on How Long You Let Them: Budget-Dependent Rankings in LLM Evaluation https://megadose.ai/i/56d70c8c-7913-421a-83af-db865d0d1c81 Megadose en 2026-08-12T15:11:18+00:00 Massive Activations in Hybrid Linear Attention Large Language Models: Pre-Attention Spikes and Inter-Spike Plateaus https://megadose.ai/i/e8f637bf-fec4-492a-abac-ee95383f6504 Megadose en 2026-08-12T15:03:28+00:00 ADEPT: A Unified Framework for Deep Learning Test Adequacy https://megadose.ai/i/a024fbae-8431-4879-bc7e-33f44f5f7a08 Megadose en 2026-08-12T15:01:17+00:00 Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B https://megadose.ai/i/1086fb2a-00ea-454d-9cb0-219ba292a855 Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:56:13+00:00 FQTree: Fine-grained Quantization and Hardware Generation of Boosted Decision Trees https://megadose.ai/i/308f3bd0-ca7e-4229-a39a-e612d4e7b93f Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:55:46+00:00 A corpus-specific clinical RAG system matches or outperforms newer frontier LLMs on HealthBench https://megadose.ai/i/54187861-85f3-4d8b-b61e-6876f903ffb8 Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:49:40+00:00 SAG: SQL-Retrieval Augmented Generation with Query-Time Dynamic Hyperedges https://megadose.ai/i/5da56951-49ca-4ca4-b126-d6a084d6c22e Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:47:15+00:00 Do LLMs Take Care of Their Own? Similarity Signals Can Induce Cooperation https://megadose.ai/i/931eae34-02aa-4b7a-8747-fcf1ef186918 Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:42:15+00:00 Ready Cohorts: Bounding GPU Opportunity and Avoiding Host Round Trips in LLM-Agent Control https://megadose.ai/i/2845b30a-9589-43fd-8505-ed298023b86d Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:40:43+00:00 QV-PIC: Query-Aware Visual Position-Independent Caching for Efficient RAG Serving https://megadose.ai/i/a1ec3fec-a7de-41e8-a787-29048951c00a Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:39:10+00:00 Google DeepMind launches SL2T, a multilingual sign-language-to-text model debuting on the Pixel 11 in Gboard and Live Transcribe, first with ASL and English (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) https://megadose.ai/i/0c388240-22da-40d0-86b4-0539b23e2d44 Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:30:01+00:00 Google is introducing an insulin-resistance trend feature that uses AI, accelerometer, and other sensors, launching first on the Watch 5 and Fitbit devices (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/2ccb280b-832f-42c0-a30a-5aa03fd88a91 Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:22:00+00:00 Why Sandbar thinks it’s voice-enabled ring can avoid the AI hardware graveyard https://megadose.ai/i/679aa7ab-03c5-480f-9da2-cd8a3196320b Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:11:54+00:00 Google unveils the $399 Pixel Watch 5 with a satin pyrite case finish, offline Gemini, proactive AI suggestions, better GPS maps, and insulin resistance trends (Victoria Song/The Verge) https://megadose.ai/i/1848c9a4-bb20-4822-93f1-53e121bd1eef Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:08:03+00:00 Google unveils the $899+ Pixel 11, $1,099+ 11 Pro, and $1,299+ 11 Pro XL, with Tensor G6, new Gemini features, Magic Capture to pick the best frames, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/96a9bc3d-b4e4-45c7-992c-06f97008bed9 Megadose en 2026-08-12T14:01:59+00:00 Putting sign language AI into users’ hands https://megadose.ai/i/8eb0072f-98ef-4ce2-b51d-edd023f61e29 Megadose en 2026-08-12T13:30:02+00:00 AI code review startup CodeRabbit raised a $143M Series C co-led by Atomico and Smash at a $1.5B valuation, after raising a $60M Series B in September 2025 (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/b07de104-5fa8-4586-b812-690f931ac870 Megadose en 2026-08-12T12:50:05+00:00 Thrive Capital's Thrive Holdings, which acquires traditional service businesses and adds AI, raised $2B from SoftBank, D1, and others at a $12B valuation (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times) https://megadose.ai/i/b1eda2ab-2d9c-4479-9525-47192a48f90d Megadose en 2026-08-12T12:30:03+00:00 Amsterdam-based neocloud Nebius reports Q2 cloud revenue up 514% YoY to $575M and total revenue of $582M, above $557M est.; NBIS rises 15%+, and is up 131% YTD (Paula Doenecke/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/61015505-54ae-442f-90f3-e2c87b6c5e12 Megadose en 2026-08-12T12:00:41+00:00 Skan AI, which is building a "context graph of work" by observing staff using enterprise software, raised a $63M Series C co-led by Cathay Innovation and Dell (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) https://megadose.ai/i/3e289b00-fea7-4800-86eb-7f84e43cf751 Megadose en 2026-08-12T11:10:01+00:00 AI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $45M Series B led by Peak XV Partners at a $550M valuation, up from $60M after it raised a $10M Series A in 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/3e3cd814-9316-4b6f-95e1-5b97b1b50345 Megadose en 2026-08-12T11:00:00+00:00 AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year https://megadose.ai/i/305eca29-8ab6-434e-b0c3-a2cd4594e800 Megadose en 2026-08-12T10:30:00+00:00 A look at the challenges facing incoming Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu, who joined DeepMind in 2012 and will oversee Gemini and frontier AI research (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/f20b5a95-a926-482f-86c9-f5a87a02063f Megadose en 2026-08-12T10:15:14+00:00 Former Alibaba star researcher Junyang Lin launches Shanghai-based Pragmatik Labs to build digital and physical AI agents; Pragmatik hit a $2B valuation in June (Juro Osawa/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/b51acd40-5cec-4f2f-9d67-be50ab37d20d Megadose en 2026-08-12T10:05:02+00:00 Foxconn reports Q2 revenue up 41% YoY to ~$78.4B, with cloud and networking products contributing 50%+ for the first time, and net profit up 35% to ~$1.86B (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/1b325ec7-e0ce-43f9-82a8-74dae2fc188f Megadose en 2026-08-12T09:51:00+00:00 Empty shelves or lost keys? Recall is the bottleneck for parametric factuality https://megadose.ai/i/03e47266-073c-4753-9015-3823d3ccee81 Megadose en 2026-08-12T09:37:37+00:00 Stockholm-based AI coding startup Lovable raised $400M at a $13.3B valuation, up from $6.6B in December 2025, becoming one of Europe's most valuable startups (Ben Dummett/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/6844a210-7faa-43bf-b76a-c869d9fd02ed Megadose en 2026-08-12T08:30:03+00:00 Sources: AI coding startup Cognition is in early talks with investors to raise $1B+ at a $40B+ valuation, after raising $1B at a $26B valuation in May (Rebecca Torrence/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/24a191f6-285d-4ab4-9734-5044d8ba027e Megadose en 2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 ToolHazard: Scaling Adversarial Environments for Security Evaluation and Alignment of LLM-based Agents https://megadose.ai/i/75f6ca66-72a5-4aa5-b502-67e759fb0624 Megadose en 2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 Hand Visibility Detector: Per-Keypoint Visibility Estimation for Hands https://megadose.ai/i/408724a2-c467-45d4-b3ea-997d4c3cf040 Megadose en 2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 Persistent Recursive Worlds Enable Autonomous Software Evolution https://megadose.ai/i/ab2a5bf9-43d6-432b-ad4c-15c1bb49b2b7 Megadose en 2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 From Synthesis to Removal: Physics-Grounded Reflection Simulation and Diffusion-Based Video Dereflection https://megadose.ai/i/4170934a-90d2-4f97-bbf4-6c6922bfa450 Megadose en 2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 MBA: Multimodal Benchmark and Agents for Real-World Business Ideation https://megadose.ai/i/8ab3854f-6701-4ffb-86b7-f95743d37f08 Megadose en 2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 StateFlow: Building, Evolving, and Accessing 3D World States for Previsualization https://megadose.ai/i/30685efb-b097-4bbf-a3d9-628bfb1aa87a Megadose en 2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 Spark-to-Paper: End-to-End Research Paper Generation as a Composable Skill https://megadose.ai/i/f28ee229-b084-4e11-b216-07f26b5f23c3 Megadose en 2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 Mechanist: AI as a Scientific Instrument for Discovering the Mechanisms of Intelligence https://megadose.ai/i/ee6fa5fb-f2a2-4f9a-9781-6690fbb2fa60 Megadose en 2026-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 Ready Cohorts: Bounding GPU Opportunity and Avoiding Host Round Trips in LLM-Agent Control