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/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) https://megadose.ai/i/7a604661-72f5-47c2-bf6a-99ac55c54c42 Megadose en 2026-07-17T22:12:56+00:00 Databricks hits $188B valuation, extending its run as AI’s favorite second act https://megadose.ai/i/56180c1c-dad1-4138-91f3-a5cbfad93ef2 Megadose en 2026-07-17T21:55:01+00:00 The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sank ~10% for the week, its largest weekly fall in over a year, and is now down ~20% from its late-June all-time high (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/37b4172c-c95a-4d97-84ab-90b123ffd5be Megadose en 2026-07-17T21:38:25+00:00 Perplexity launches SPACE runtime for AI agent tasks https://megadose.ai/i/6c2d008f-796f-4e3f-a1ec-057654aed9cf Megadose en 2026-07-17T21:15:00+00:00 Sources: Valar Atomics, which makes small nuclear reactors intended to power data centers, is in talks to raise $1B at a ~$5B pre-money valuation (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/84835b0b-1f8c-4223-8494-eca549d59e15 Megadose en 2026-07-17T19:45:01+00:00 Sources: OpenRouter has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value it at billions of dollars, a premium to its $1.3B valuation in May (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/525c7643-e76a-4523-845c-f215a8f4565a Megadose en 2026-07-17T19:10:01+00:00 Sources: SpaceX is in talks with the DOD about providing the agency with access to data-center capacity worth billions of dollars for running AI models (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/8b0414c3-fb30-4608-ae9c-bf04e8ce3a25 Megadose en 2026-07-17T16:30:54+00:00 NoimosAI unveils Advisor for automated marketing tasks https://megadose.ai/i/4c94cc9b-3f13-4aa8-abd8-f1487efa00a6 Megadose en 2026-07-17T16:25:04+00:00 Sources: Meta is in talks to rent computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal that could be worth ~$10B over two years (New York Times) https://megadose.ai/i/033072b0-caa1-43d5-af28-69da96859aef Megadose en 2026-07-17T13:50:02+00:00 AI inference startup General Compute gets a $400M loan from tech investment firm Upper90, seemingly the first deal using inference-specific chips as collateral (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/b64a053c-f24d-4c37-82ca-001140cb7c89 Megadose en 2026-07-17T12:00:00+00:00 Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal https://megadose.ai/i/02e3b688-92a1-4ac5-ab1c-40543ceb16d6 Megadose en 2026-07-17T09:45:01+00:00 Sources: Z.ai is on track to achieve an annual recurring revenue of $1B, a first for a Chinese AI company, after achieving its full-year sales target in July (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/124d2915-1fc4-4ad0-a30e-eaf4e6cd24ee Megadose en 2026-07-17T09:05:02+00:00 Sources: Dave Brown, former SVP of AWS Compute, AI, and Platform, will join Meta in the coming weeks, where he will work on the company's data center build-out (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/cdd8c6e5-8fe3-4190-ba39-25e97a80f167 Megadose en 2026-07-17T03:20:01+00:00 Source: Microsoft plans to release an AI security tool this month using models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and itself, as a cost-effective Mythos alternative (Aaron Holmes/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/2cbd3fd2-9267-4c11-b7b6-867a88284793 Megadose en 2026-07-17T02:05:01+00:00 Sources: Coatue is leading a $3B investment in Databricks that values the data analytics software company at $188B, a 40% increase from its December valuation (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/6f454ea5-cf07-49c2-8e48-cf9324f75387 Megadose en 2026-07-17T01:46:36+00:00 [AINews] Kimi K3 2.8T-A50B: the largest open model ever released; Opus 4.8-class at Sonnet 5 pricing https://megadose.ai/i/60ffa8f2-d15a-42c7-a4ff-6f3f5e390acb Megadose en 2026-07-17T00:41:08+00:00 China has a new top model https://megadose.ai/i/e31d6266-5cef-4744-b26a-dc353be51eb7 Megadose en 2026-07-16T23:45:02+00:00 Source: UK robotics startup Humanoid raised $150M in the first tranche of a Series A at a $1.2B pre-money valuation and seeks another $80M-$100M by September (Rocket Drew/The Information)