https://megadose.ai/i/e43621e6-fc1c-4ec7-87ff-ddcef466cb59 Megadose en 2026-07-19T21:16:07+00:00 What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit https://megadose.ai/i/27a2ae20-b509-497a-9975-70f7f0a1caf3 Megadose en 2026-07-19T14:10:00+00:00 Alibaba launches preview of 2.4T parameter Qwen3.8 Max, says it's comparable to frontier AI models and second only to Fable 5, will make it "open-weight soon" (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/69352071-ff1f-402e-93cd-b8fb222fb421 Megadose en 2026-07-19T06:15:02+00:00 Sources: Kimi developer Moonshot told investors it is preparing for a Hong Kong IPO in as early as six months; its ARR hit $300M in June, up from $200M in April (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/4f32d632-7df9-4ae8-9990-716bf310f282 Megadose en 2026-07-19T03:40:02+00:00 Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post) https://megadose.ai/i/4843704b-a9a1-4727-a17d-dc7194acb8dc Megadose en 2026-07-18T21:10:01+00:00 Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/5e7de613-4af4-4ef5-807f-0b135d800b49 Megadose en 2026-07-18T21:09:01+00:00 Co-evolution of self-replication and function in a digital primordial soup https://megadose.ai/i/03331241-a48b-4c68-8901-4fae56821788 Megadose en 2026-07-18T18:51:07+00:00 Kimi: Threat or menace? https://megadose.ai/i/42734496-b01e-4c22-bd63-4e744eb881f4 Megadose en 2026-07-18T06:55:02+00:00 Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 (AI Security Institute) https://megadose.ai/i/758ae00d-a8ec-40e6-be07-2294cc93e5ae Megadose en 2026-07-18T06:10:01+00:00 Feathery, which develops an AI operating and decisioning system for financial services, raised $30M in total funding, including a recently completed Series A (FinTech Global) https://megadose.ai/i/961ab006-58d2-4039-82f5-afc6e43ab1f7 Megadose en 2026-07-18T05:45:02+00:00 Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M (Meir Orbach/CTech) https://megadose.ai/i/c13caf5a-1f4f-41da-8ff9-85dc474638a3 Megadose en 2026-07-18T05:30:01+00:00 Sources: China's National AI Industry Investment Fund gained voting rights in DeepSeek by joining its $7.4B round; other investors like Tencent and JD got none (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/a29b45f7-1280-40ef-b9dc-f376b72460f2 Megadose en 2026-07-18T05:00:48+00:00 Thira, an AI startup founded by Apptio co-founders to develop AI agents that handle back-office tasks such as IT support, raised a $21M seed led by Madrona (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) https://megadose.ai/i/308ff06a-4451-4187-a9b5-f92ecb8617cb Megadose en 2026-07-18T04:45:01+00:00 Japan plans to buy 27,500 Nvidia Rubin chips to develop a domestic AI foundation model for robots, in a Noetra-led effort that includes SoftBank, Sony, and NEC (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/2681336a-3db4-4c19-a965-fe1939e6f274 Megadose en 2026-07-18T01:00:51+00:00 China's BrainCo unveils what it says is the world's first integrated "brain-to-robot" platform that lets users control robots using an EEG headset (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post) https://megadose.ai/i/25729fd3-3df4-42b5-baf9-5913cecd7f6b Megadose en 2026-07-17T23:55:02+00:00 Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (Wall Street Journal)