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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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 https://megadose.ai/i/f95875d2-baf0-415a-9169-bbd7e427fe73 Megadose en 2026-08-06T14:30:37+00:00 Sources: DeepSeek has resumed its funding round, seeking $8B at a $74B valuation, after pausing talks following the leak of Liang Wenfeng's remarks to investors (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/a906c44b-d638-4118-b835-5f708917aed3 Megadose en 2026-08-06T14:20:00+00:00 Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 scores 54 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, putting Meta next to SpaceXAI in a tie for third place amongst US labs (Artificial Analysis) https://megadose.ai/i/05530fe9-3de9-4b35-9e1b-fa76e321f219 Megadose en 2026-08-06T14:10:01+00:00 Filing: DeepSeek has invested ~$20.8M in Unitree Robotics' Shanghai IPO and agreed to jointly develop AI models for humanoid machines (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/ab050050-f99e-465d-8874-dde0d9acbeb2 Megadose en 2026-08-06T14:01:14+00:00 Ooredoo, Nvidia, Nokia, and Indosat launch Zankore, Indonesia's first dedicated AI compute and neocloud platform; Ooredoo, which owns a 49% stake, commits $800M (Melissa Hancock/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/e6159b3d-1f54-4436-8bb3-ccb1b44c6c9c Megadose en 2026-08-06T13:00:00+00:00 Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce https://megadose.ai/i/419344e4-ede5-47c6-b254-2d5844cf102e Megadose en 2026-08-06T13:00:00+00:00 Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI https://megadose.ai/i/b7cb4dfa-3b66-4b3d-827c-3578311e5121 Megadose en 2026-08-06T12:42:20+00:00 Google is expanding its Gemini-powered Ask Maps feature in English to 130+ countries and adds agentic food ordering, hotel booking, and attraction searching (Jada Jones/ZDNET) https://megadose.ai/i/e1d68e8b-1f51-457f-82c2-ac3ed54cb577 Megadose en 2026-08-06T12:30:00+00:00 Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings https://megadose.ai/i/1dccb8a2-c7fc-45a3-abd1-8bb5679fecc6 Megadose en 2026-08-06T12:10:01+00:00 Lumilens, which is building data center optical-interconnection tech to replace wires with light, raised $700M at a $5.5B valuation, for $900M in total funding (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/ee04a686-41c8-482c-b7be-fbca35b15d71 Megadose en 2026-08-06T12:00:00+00:00 Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform https://megadose.ai/i/0caf7192-4ce1-4c93-803b-d8e5d601acad Megadose en 2026-08-06T11:58:07+00:00 Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs https://megadose.ai/i/a7e130e9-55b1-4ef3-8530-abdccd791ac8 Megadose en 2026-08-06T11:40:01+00:00 Filing: Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics prices its Shanghai IPO at ~$22/share, aiming to sell 40.4M shares to raise $904M; Unitree shipped 5,500+ robots in 2025 (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/d7989077-111d-4850-a139-e46723e9ab05 Megadose en 2026-08-06T10:00:00+00:00 Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users https://megadose.ai/i/5d794ad3-7d5e-4a93-9dfe-47a772b302e8 Megadose en 2026-08-06T09:40:01+00:00 Google centralizes its AI leadership at Mountain View in a bid to catch its rivals; Sebastian Borgeaud, who led a major AI coding effort, moved from the UK (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/f8de1aae-eeed-41a8-ae06-547fea031c3c Megadose en 2026-08-06T06:55:05+00:00 A look at Sequoia's revamped strategy under new stewards Alfred Lin and Pat Grady, including bold AI bets; sources: Sequoia recently closed $10B in new funding (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/7a213398-68e2-49a5-bebb-30b088d4a995 Megadose en 2026-08-06T06:45:00+00:00 DeepSeek says it plans to implement substantial price increases across its services; it currently charges $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens for V4 Flash (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/368d6c67-5201-427d-9299-fc10eb766700 Megadose en 2026-08-06T05:50:01+00:00 PitchBook: AI voice startups raised $7B in Q1 '26, vs. $1B in Q1 '25, as OpenAI and Google bet on voice as the main interface for a new generation of AI agents (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/25757484-ebf7-4faf-aea5-323e3739d6a1 Megadose en 2026-08-06T05:35:00+00:00 Sources detail Intel's turnaround under Lip-Bu Tan as AI demand for CPUs boosts business; Intel's deal to make Arm's AI data center chip fell through in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/d1d8ac76-be2a-4c48-8b67-fed3e812014b Megadose en 2026-08-06T04:34:11+00:00 [AINews] Jeff, Sanjay, Oriol, and Quoc depart DeepMind; Demis to Chair; Koray to SVP — what is going on at GDM??? https://megadose.ai/i/21e2b942-a8d2-4e5c-b986-f9e48bc54883 Megadose en 2026-08-06T03:10:02+00:00 Cloudflare open sources a new version of Cloudflare OS, an AI agentic workspace for enterprises running on a company's account and accessible via browser (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE) https://megadose.ai/i/07dfc727-74bf-4a13-8523-7eb47051bc31 Megadose en 2026-08-06T00:55:00+00:00 Sapiom, which helps businesses build, ship, and scale AI agents and lower token costs, raised a $35M Series A led by Dragonfly, taking its total funding to $50M (Reed Albergotti/Semafor) https://megadose.ai/i/658e5c7d-afdf-495e-9ded-ecddd905f5df Megadose en 2026-08-05T23:58:35+00:00 Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 https://megadose.ai/i/62da37bb-49cf-4a27-a72d-91c8c9193c16 Megadose en 2026-08-05T23:25:02+00:00 Sources: Demis Hassabis had been drifting away from day-to-day duties as Google DeepMind CEO for at least a year and struggled to find satisfaction in the role (Reed Albergotti/Semafor) https://megadose.ai/i/1e80b6a2-cc48-41e0-bee8-053d53c4e0e7 Megadose en 2026-08-05T21:21:28+00:00 Meta launches Muse Code, an AI agent for large code bases https://megadose.ai/i/d0ebc0a0-c8fb-4bbf-8816-6f88eb8c46ba Megadose en 2026-08-05T20:53:41+00:00 Meta launches Muse Code beta powered by Muse Spark 1.2 https://megadose.ai/i/9d961305-7436-4d05-bf33-9aa9edb3dde9 Megadose en 2026-08-05T20:20:00+00:00 Meta is offering a cheaper Muse Spark 1.2 "contributor" tier priced at $0.10/1M input and $0.20/1M output tokens in exchange for using user prompts for training (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/aceba225-efbb-439c-b58a-939f1ee20980 Megadose en 2026-08-05T20:05:03+00:00 Filing: Microsoft recorded $24.1B in revenue from OpenAI during the year ended in June, suggesting OpenAI accounted for more than half of Microsoft's AI sales (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/815f4842-da30-43aa-be72-0f445d13dc0b Megadose en 2026-08-05T20:05:00+00:00 Klaviyo acquires Elias Torres’ Agency in full-circle reunion for tech founders https://megadose.ai/i/d51911f0-a6fe-4b9c-89c2-80799643225f Megadose en 2026-08-05T19:43:30+00:00 Meta releases Muse Code in beta, a terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused model priced at $1.25/1M input and $4.25/1M output tokens (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/9b93e9c2-8a59-40be-9227-2a25a904cb9b Megadose en 2026-08-05T19:30:19+00:00 Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup https://megadose.ai/i/694a8160-9f1a-4c75-a0b7-3669ec1871a3 Megadose en 2026-08-05T19:15:52+00:00 Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 https://megadose.ai/i/59408921-956d-4499-b856-89a84b5f523b Megadose en 2026-08-05T18:20:02+00:00 Source: Yunfeng Capital, a PE firm co-founded by Jack Ma, invested ~$30M in AI insurance tech startup Corgi, leading a round that reportedly valued Corgi at $4B (Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/398ee083-2042-4a4f-abe5-f394a477242e Megadose en 2026-08-05T18:17:03+00:00 Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025) https://megadose.ai/i/97fd0a82-9daa-43d1-8f43-6dee11d84464 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:59:44+00:00 Reasoning Core: Designing Broad Procedural Data for Completion-Supervised Reasoning Training https://megadose.ai/i/f0f06f09-1c83-4779-a569-f66a54f9169a Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:58:58+00:00 Argus: A General-Purpose Agentic Runtime for Long-Horizon Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/746cac48-4776-46eb-8310-699c8757c650 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:58:15+00:00 OctoLong: Mid-Training On Cross-Repository Code Contexts Enhances Long-Context Modeling https://megadose.ai/i/d4507505-5dda-4b17-b6e0-2d9928fb1ca9 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:57:16+00:00 Toward Skill-Native LLMs: Skill Entropy for Benchmarking and Training Long-Horizon Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/beb0a7ae-3d6b-4aff-97d5-7d73ef8a20dd Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:56:40+00:00 Teaching Nemotron Greek: Mining a Corpus, Adapting Retrieval, and Grounding Generation for Modern Greek across Specialist Domains https://megadose.ai/i/38f0f69e-8700-4ed5-b6c0-a15e9e4f6562 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:56:26+00:00 The Loss Does Not See the Basis, but Adam Does https://megadose.ai/i/5169776f-2ec9-42c0-9d57-58fa6b753ce6 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:53:06+00:00 OPD-V: Visual On-Policy Self-Distillation with Modality Balance https://megadose.ai/i/bde1f9b8-3a5c-4520-b7b9-e763246beaf8 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:51:25+00:00 SSTQ:Privacy-Preserving Vector Quantization via Subsampled Stochastic TurboQuant https://megadose.ai/i/240b6cd5-811b-4fc9-bfa2-c988643a08b3 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:50:31+00:00 Spoken Function Calling: A New Perspective on Spoken Language Understanding for Large Audio Language Models https://megadose.ai/i/2520f8d0-053c-4781-a867-ee42de55b78e Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:50:08+00:00 Chained Recursive Language Models for Multi-Iteration Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/83a82a16-3911-4e48-9f16-c1f8deec20e1 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:44:52+00:00 Reward Structure Shapes the Interaction Between Episodic Exploration and Neural Memory in Reinforcement Learning https://megadose.ai/i/98ea33ac-9396-4834-9684-457fe426a0d1 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:44:36+00:00 Representational separation between unitary and channel quantum generative models via shared classical randomness at shallow depth https://megadose.ai/i/931ba8ec-e1f5-4fc6-b9aa-149fb9c81317 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:42:29+00:00 Multimodal Spatiotemporal Atmospheric Data Assimilation with Latent Flow-matching https://megadose.ai/i/f321d8f1-1fa4-469a-90a5-c5a9b571109e Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:41:31+00:00 ABSeeker: Training Long-Horizon Search Agents via Answer-Backtracked Credit Assignment https://megadose.ai/i/4f422168-afd9-4711-9178-33fe9f0e5573 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:33:47+00:00 Same Formulas, Different Semantics: Do Language Models Follow Modal Logic Specifications? https://megadose.ai/i/595c414a-6ae3-4f00-824c-eae5b7257a77 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:32:43+00:00 Hierarchical Graph Memory for LLM Agents with Path-level Localization and Rewrite https://megadose.ai/i/9f6b1abb-301d-4f42-a93f-0398c66488d4 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:26:47+00:00 MALT: Lightweight Curvature-Aware Muon via Diagonal Preconditioning https://megadose.ai/i/fed2770a-4bd5-4d2d-bed0-274bc193f4f4 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:25:27+00:00 Item Response Theory for AI Safety https://megadose.ai/i/8aa768df-c966-4bba-8643-547881a3f2c3 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:24:55+00:00 Learning When to Stop: Prefix-Optimal Dynamic Diffusion Policies for Continuous Control https://megadose.ai/i/4842bc36-3077-48f4-aebc-42ee23a08005 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:22:02+00:00 Optimizing What Policies Learn From: Recoverability-aware Rollout Intervention Learning https://megadose.ai/i/c3459a51-06ef-412d-b96b-c6347a28b609 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:20:03+00:00 Reddit expands its test of Rules Hub, a suite of tools that rely on LLMs to help moderators manage their communities, and plans a full launch later this year (Jay Peters/The Verge) https://megadose.ai/i/2d919fc3-0065-48a2-a549-e462cfc249e1 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:11:04+00:00 Provable Limits and Certified Deferral for Verbalized Uncertainty in Small Language Models https://megadose.ai/i/d38fa27e-9680-44ea-816f-3b4d1c9ddb85 Megadose en 2026-08-05T17:03:13+00:00 MarsCast: Transfer Learning of AI Weather Foundation Models to Planetary Atmospheres https://megadose.ai/i/3d17145e-ce7e-4fee-90b1-4ecb4fa47458 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:55:59+00:00 Gradient Immunity: Null-Space Resistance to Malicious Fine-Tuning https://megadose.ai/i/d8b15e1f-1cc0-4453-8a6f-452f8fe2a248 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:50:00+00:00 Hark, founded by Figure AI CEO Brett Adcock, previews Handoff, a computer use agent it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Opus 4.8, and plans for a summer release (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/755afb34-8b26-4973-9c41-89b4236f24a2 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:41:03+00:00 SparseDitto: Customizing GPU Kernels for Different Sparsity Patterns with LLM-Based Agentic System https://megadose.ai/i/c797f759-0142-48ab-88d9-e20af6aa8ae2 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:25:01+00:00 Google says Chief AI Architect and Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu will be taking over most of Demis Hassabis' responsibilities (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/e531b88b-1a03-4615-ae82-75faa12cc020 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:21:18+00:00 Revealed Rationality: Label-Free Evaluation and Regularization from Representation Theorems https://megadose.ai/i/9e2ab696-b2e3-4203-81a6-ad4755824d87 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:15:01+00:00 Discovery Loop, co-founded by Jeff Dean, is backed by seed funding from Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others; Google also has a stake in the company (Cade Metz/New York Times) https://megadose.ai/i/7196a979-8e1e-4941-af33-c22194f936e4 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:11:34+00:00 Jeff Dean and three other Google execs are leaving to launch Discovery Loop, which will seek AI-powered breakthroughs in drug discovery, chip design, and more (Steven Levy/Wired) https://megadose.ai/i/adee0832-a612-4aed-ba32-76e7d3805117 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:11:08+00:00 DelusionEval: Measuring Delusion-Linked Behaviors in AI Chatbots https://megadose.ai/i/30d57968-9146-4d08-8fb6-c100873d1b93 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:09:25+00:00 Towards Physics of Multimodal Pretraining: Knowledge Flow, Modality Synergy, Early Unification, and Recipes https://megadose.ai/i/0300a67d-2af5-4a25-b712-0bed0f7102f3 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:09:12+00:00 ORACLE: A Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning-Based Analog Circuit Design Optimizer with Large Language Models-Guided Exploration https://megadose.ai/i/1ad5b99e-9c0d-46fc-8f62-0cfa320fd5f8 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:07:02+00:00 Demis Hassabis is leaving his role as CEO of Google DeepMind to be the unit's chairman and will add the title of Alphabet chief scientist (Ina Fried/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/3e9d14c5-d264-4cf2-9174-1a2b012c4909 Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:05:37+00:00 Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down https://megadose.ai/i/4770c3f1-f81a-4221-aa8c-dfa9ba1ee35d Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:05:31+00:00 Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs https://megadose.ai/i/61cb0568-4d1c-417d-b5b5-0cf986b2d5bd Megadose en 2026-08-05T16:04:33+00:00 Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet https://megadose.ai/i/a62eed60-ded4-4c19-8baa-a03a8c246260 Megadose en 2026-08-05T15:51:36+00:00 Protoreasoning in Tiny Transformers https://megadose.ai/i/7fa90b50-52f8-442a-a4dd-a00a42640a1f Megadose en 2026-08-05T15:46:27+00:00 Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks https://megadose.ai/i/2482dc1e-fd04-4842-8fb2-aad246532584 Megadose en 2026-08-05T15:45:55+00:00 SciCode-Verified: How Benchmark Defects Underestimated the Scientific-Coding Ability of Language Models https://megadose.ai/i/e8528a89-e5e5-4844-bc04-9b313a52eb70 Megadose en 2026-08-05T15:30:02+00:00 Amazon's Zoox will start charging for rides in Las Vegas starting August 10, launching its commercial operations after offering free rides since last year (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/d0104ac5-1606-4e64-a3a1-637dfe74ae9e Megadose en 2026-08-05T15:10:18+00:00 MemoryPlugin launches Sync app for coding agents on macOS https://megadose.ai/i/47f1de37-c7d2-4254-913b-42bc16e5b0f7 Megadose en 2026-08-05T14:13:18+00:00 Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team https://megadose.ai/i/ca461ca1-9e16-4b83-8145-73a33856d574 Megadose en 2026-08-05T13:01:03+00:00 Anthropic confirms it is building an in-house silicon team to design custom chips for Claude, co-designing hardware and models and using a "multi-chip approach" (Tom Carter/Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/fceef812-8f07-4532-82f4-311617538b8c Megadose en 2026-08-05T12:30:02+00:00 Sources: Google is in talks with AI coding agent startup Mechanize on a possible deal, potentially worth $1.5B+, to hire some of its talent and license its tech (Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/0ca0db04-1952-415f-82db-9208d392cd9d Megadose en 2026-08-05T12:28:38+00:00 MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store https://megadose.ai/i/66e3aaa4-6f88-4888-ba65-f8a14333910e Megadose en 2026-08-05T12:12:35+00:00 ByteDance launches SeedRealtime full-duplex AI model https://megadose.ai/i/bc966ad8-f69d-4d99-8a84-93546960722b Megadose en 2026-08-05T12:10:02+00:00 Google says it will begin removing Google Assistant from Android and Wear OS devices on September 4, replaced by Gemini; Assistant remains on connected cars (Abner Li/9to5Google) https://megadose.ai/i/eb5f727e-dec6-4478-bdf4-e507294a69b0 Megadose en 2026-08-05T11:56:49+00:00 Cloudflare announces Wallets for AI agent payments https://megadose.ai/i/cc3ea481-a77e-4a4f-8f24-daec80652a92 Megadose en 2026-08-05T11:53:26+00:00 Mistral releases Shieldstral for multimodal moderation https://megadose.ai/i/1e2729f9-a244-4f7b-b498-fa39152df8bd Megadose en 2026-08-05T11:35:02+00:00 Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the company plans to spend $10B+ "over the coming years" to deploy 120K driverless vehicles, aiming to hit 15+ cities in 2026 (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/5c4b70b0-4ad5-42b4-9339-b1a9b8bbb050 Megadose en 2026-08-05T11:00:00+00:00 AI makes weather prediction better. 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