https://megadose.ai/i/2434efe9-7c2c-43d6-a9e8-08ed53e83543 Megadose en 2026-06-19T06:00:01+00:00 Sources detail how Google is using Nvidia's playbook to build an AI chip business, including providing $3.2B to fund a NY data center renting TPUs to Anthropic (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/64d1399e-df93-4eef-ab92-9ea6f895d298 Megadose en 2026-06-19T05:05:01+00:00 Barret Zoph leaves OpenAI again five months after rejoining in January; Zoph initially left OpenAI in 2024 to serve as Thinking Machines Lab co-founder and CTO (Hayden Field/The Verge) https://megadose.ai/i/5dc1f115-f3d2-4121-800f-13791df3aa10 Megadose en 2026-06-19T03:05:01+00:00 Source: Elastic has agreed to acquire the AI site reliability engineering startup Deductive AI for up to $85M; CRV led Deductive AI's $7.5M seed round in 2025 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/81a6d0e3-80d3-4035-8740-1e60e1cee38a Megadose en 2026-06-19T01:55:00+00:00 Sources: SpaceX plans to raise $20B in a bond sale as soon as next week; the funds would be used to pay back a $20B bridge loan taken out after the xAI merger (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/1cd592d0-2d5e-458a-8f57-8448dbd97016 Megadose en 2026-06-19T00:51:11+00:00 Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M https://megadose.ai/i/b2f5ffdf-62d1-481d-b8a8-cc07be42a51e Megadose en 2026-06-18T21:25:02+00:00 Snap plans to spin off an internal generative AI video team into Dotmo, a new company focused on AI models for interactive gaming experiences, citing high costs (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/e48861b6-3470-4050-80d9-b4f13e495015 Megadose en 2026-06-18T21:20:13+00:00 AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega round https://megadose.ai/i/b369c981-7472-4953-8099-04b58d26e349 Megadose en 2026-06-18T20:55:00+00:00 Sources: Meta is under contract to buy roughly 1.6 GW of computing capacity from Crusoe across two data centers in Texas and Missouri (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/5e3d8ae9-99af-4def-969c-8e4c63ade4e6 Megadose en 2026-06-18T20:30:00+00:00 Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs https://megadose.ai/i/2e0ff3f2-5091-4265-a1fd-98e11a7de4f9 Megadose en 2026-06-18T19:59:22+00:00 OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO https://megadose.ai/i/6f933268-4270-44cf-b59b-8dc43656c610 Megadose en 2026-06-18T18:55:01+00:00 GLM-5.2 is the leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 51, only behind Fable 5's 60, Opus 4.8's 56, and GPT-5.5's 55 (Artificial Analysis) https://megadose.ai/i/9e2a5f11-cfb4-46e5-b6ba-1d575eaed6fe Megadose en 2026-06-18T18:22:13+00:00 Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips https://megadose.ai/i/aa12e40b-558a-4a9e-a5bc-c9d3f5a17744 Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:59:46+00:00 How Transparent is DiffusionGemma? https://megadose.ai/i/cde5271f-707e-48c7-bad6-7dcd8fa01771 Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:59:45+00:00 UNIEGO: Proxies as Mediators for Unified Egocentric Video Representation Learning https://megadose.ai/i/c4b8b5f1-ae8a-4e16-8950-e81c46d1dc32 Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:59:31+00:00 Optimal Deterministic Multicalibration and Omniprediction https://megadose.ai/i/81f80ad4-b0bd-4cdd-887c-750b1ac98c94 Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:56:17+00:00 The Token Is a Group Element: On Lie-Algebra Attention over Matrix Lie Groups https://megadose.ai/i/89a562e3-2a3c-4a66-8979-83ff7ef812fd Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:55:31+00:00 Predictability as a Fine-Grained Measure for Privacy https://megadose.ai/i/10e5bc52-4eba-4d79-a499-a115aa810b8e Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:49:36+00:00 Execution-State Capsules: Graph-Bound Execution-State Checkpoint and Restore for Low-Latency, Small-Batch, On-Device Physical-AI Serving https://megadose.ai/i/e0f63e97-f731-48af-868c-f74446708281 Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:47:32+00:00 How Do Instructions Shape Speech? Cross-Attention Attribution for Style-Captioned Text-to-Speech https://megadose.ai/i/ca4b2f3d-0575-4524-9078-39c61fac50be Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:41:56+00:00 LedgerAgent: Structured State for Policy-Adherent Tool-Calling Agents https://megadose.ai/i/3674413a-9828-4a62-8ada-016ef2d936fa Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:38:01+00:00 SARLO-80: Worldwide Slant SAR Language Optic Dataset 80cm https://megadose.ai/i/4ccd094c-5302-4547-9bf3-6e0f808a53ae Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:36:02+00:00 FlowEdit: Associative Memory for Lifelong Pronunciation Adaptation in Flow-Matching TTS https://megadose.ai/i/054470b7-7f3c-41a5-a0f6-62c470e4e644 Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:35:57+00:00 Multi-LCB: Extending LiveCodeBench to Multiple Programming Languages https://megadose.ai/i/2585f657-a00e-4e09-96fa-f660ec887271 Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:30:15+00:00 Probe-and-Refine Tuning of Repository Guidance for Coding Agents https://megadose.ai/i/813e68e1-da97-439e-bc77-ee2328d127a6 Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:27:59+00:00 Efficient and Sound Probabilistic Verification for AI Agents https://megadose.ai/i/267ba330-9186-48a4-b6dd-b13a50e0664e Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:24:27+00:00 FreeStyle: Free Control of Style-Content Dual-Reference Generation from Community LoRA Mining https://megadose.ai/i/1b98d75a-3a61-46bc-8f8f-4a627dec7666 Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:19:26+00:00 Calibration Without Comprehension: Diagnosing the Limits of Fine-Tuning LLMs for Vulnerability Detection in Systems Software https://megadose.ai/i/d396a05a-e8de-457e-9329-19df8161ef83 Megadose en 2026-06-18T17:04:17+00:00 Beyond Global Replanning: Hierarchical Recovery for Cross-Device Agent Systems https://megadose.ai/i/e79e3d4b-72fb-4dc8-b00d-685d9bceb2ec Megadose en 2026-06-18T16:55:26+00:00 Scalable Training of Spatially Grounded 2D Vision-Language Models for Radiology https://megadose.ai/i/5f2d2234-fbd6-450f-af2f-a0e5a027f749 Megadose en 2026-06-18T16:54:25+00:00 Marginal Advantage Accumulation for Memory-Driven Agent Self-Evolution https://megadose.ai/i/9aeeaa17-d7c2-49c4-8d3b-40270ce47ff3 Megadose en 2026-06-18T16:54:07+00:00 UltraQuant: 4-bit KV Caching for Context-Heavy Agents https://megadose.ai/i/125c0003-949b-4d6c-93d0-84f63e7e263e Megadose en 2026-06-18T16:46:42+00:00 Agentic Symbolic Search: Characterizing PDEs Beyond Hand-crafted Expressions, Meshes, and Neural Networks https://megadose.ai/i/ca9c6546-260a-4702-8072-891daea450be Megadose en 2026-06-18T16:15:30+00:00 Multi-View Decompilation for LLM-Based Malware Classification https://megadose.ai/i/e6159193-02ad-48cb-863c-92ecf8ab5cfb Megadose en 2026-06-18T16:01:39+00:00 On the Redundancy of Timestep Embeddings in Diffusion Models https://megadose.ai/i/2b4b1f14-21a3-4fd1-b525-f44966567b4e Megadose en 2026-06-18T15:58:48+00:00 Direct Advantage Estimation for Scalable and Sample-efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning https://megadose.ai/i/86eb20ed-e310-44c1-94d3-7fa71e06c3b3 Megadose en 2026-06-18T15:57:53+00:00 LLM agent safety, multi-turn red-teaming, jailbreak benchmarks, adversarial robustness, safety-critical systems https://megadose.ai/i/230cd4bd-452a-4743-b206-727aeb2ae020 Megadose en 2026-06-18T15:55:01+00:00 Former Trump AI adviser Dean Ball is joining OpenAI to lead a new team called Strategic Futures, focused on frontier AI policy and internal governance (Ashley Gold/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/74de8ff1-9538-431b-b59d-abde43af0da4 Megadose en 2026-06-18T15:45:05+00:00 DataMagic: Transforming Tabular Data into Data Insight Video https://megadose.ai/i/a1fccbbe-75e6-46eb-8f8b-1d874bc0a4aa Megadose en 2026-06-18T15:35:01+00:00 Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in talks to raise $300M from Jeff Bezos and others at a $2B+ valuation (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/9b47e845-94a2-4593-afd7-70ce615a78bf Megadose en 2026-06-18T15:20:37+00:00 General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation https://megadose.ai/i/faf13af7-d606-48cf-835c-855bbbada15c Megadose en 2026-06-18T15:20:01+00:00 Amazon's AI chief Peter DeSantis says the company is in talks to sell its custom Trainium AI chips for use in third-party data centers (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/e078b388-29e6-47eb-85a2-b705f1c14817 Megadose en 2026-06-18T14:30:02+00:00 Seattle-based Gradial, which makes AI agents that automate enterprise marketing workflows, raised a $65M Series C led by Insight Partners at a $675M valuation (Kerry Flynn/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/445a3601-1630-4fbf-84c8-0753af1fc33b Megadose en 2026-06-18T14:04:53+00:00 Zeta Labs brings AI employee Viktor to Microsoft Teams https://megadose.ai/i/bfbbc969-431c-48fc-9a22-b379f3c09d54 Megadose en 2026-06-18T13:25:04+00:00 Sources: the early Chinese backers of Manus, including HSG and Tencent, plan to buy the AI startup back from Meta at the $2B price Meta paid (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/75c7a8fe-98f0-46af-a44c-a88050d7ec2b Megadose en 2026-06-18T13:20:02+00:00 Architect Labs, which aims to use AI to cheapen and speed up the process of designing custom chips, raised a $24M seed led by Kindred Ventures (Max A. Cherney/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/8e6b5424-8ae1-4cda-acb7-c90f128ed560 Megadose en 2026-06-18T12:10:01+00:00 Hive stock jumps 10% in premarket trading after announcing a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots from bitcoin mining (James Van Straten/CoinDesk) https://megadose.ai/i/41172c5a-b9f2-4f8e-95e2-6baadcb3e9e2 Megadose en 2026-06-18T12:00:00+00:00 Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences https://megadose.ai/i/bf503be8-1da5-4bed-b6ed-64d648588dfc Megadose en 2026-06-18T11:15:00+00:00 Prem AI, a Swiss startup that lets hedge funds and law firms run AI models on their own infrastructure, is raising a $100M Series A, targeting a $500M valuation (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/c933cd6b-565c-452e-8ed5-93d832e4d165 Megadose en 2026-06-18T11:00:30+00:00 Verse Enterprises, which wants to provide energy-management software for 100 data centers by 2027, raised a $54M Series B from Nvidia and others (Summer Maxwell/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/0b427e8d-c7d3-4a6b-bba1-4dc09445337d Megadose en 2026-06-18T11:00:00+00:00 Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT https://megadose.ai/i/d85d15d8-59e8-4284-93bb-f419082570d7 Megadose en 2026-06-18T10:40:04+00:00 AI inference startup Baseten is raising $1.5B in a dual-tiered deal, with some investors putting in money at an $11B valuation and others at a $13B valuation (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/bcca109c-0ce6-47de-ad55-82706fde4114 Megadose en 2026-06-18T10:35:03+00:00 Report: DeepSeek's first external funding round has a non-negotiable term that investors should not poach its staff or encourage them to start own companies (CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/7fef1f77-cec4-41f0-b1e5-78da8690be82 Megadose en 2026-06-18T10:10:01+00:00 Dream, co-founded by ex-NSO Group CEO Shalev Hulio with a focus on protecting critical infrastructure, raised $260M at a $3B valuation, up from $1B in 2025 (Galit Altstein/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/b4685d76-3e55-48a9-af3e-57682f692897 Megadose en 2026-06-18T08:00:00+00:00 Using AI to help physicians diagnose rare genetic diseases affecting children https://megadose.ai/i/9b377619-1e7a-42a8-8adb-1529a1bae79f Megadose en 2026-06-18T05:55:03+00:00 SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of public markets, which could help SpaceX narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through acquisitions (New York Times) https://megadose.ai/i/7fc80bfd-2968-4cbe-8689-8e72d68890b7 Megadose en 2026-06-18T05:20:01+00:00 NeuralTrust, which offers tech that lets enterprises discover, monitor, govern, and secure AI agents, raised a $20M seed led by Alstin Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu) https://megadose.ai/i/a8fae897-cb65-4bee-affa-86a711140495 Megadose en 2026-06-18T04:45:02+00:00 Sources: ByteDance has been Microsoft's biggest AI customer in recent years, largely using OpenAI models, and is on track to spend $1B+ a year on Azure services (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/fc5817eb-1dc5-47d4-9641-052054b55587 Megadose en 2026-06-18T04:23:05+00:00 [AINews] Midjourney Medical: scan your organs like you step on a scale https://megadose.ai/i/e5105947-b04c-4065-98a5-3b00f8f2e277 Megadose en 2026-06-18T03:25:01+00:00 Nvidia researchers unveil ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that develops robotic self-improvement strategies for physical tasks with minimal human supervision (Jeremy Hsu/Ars Technica) https://megadose.ai/i/4936781d-abe6-4166-8a4d-4b9e47d510d0 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:47:53+00:00 ICYMI: ZAI launches GLM-5.2 open model with 1M context https://megadose.ai/i/4e01d6e2-5449-4bf6-8c86-e0c617b64f09 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:35:02+00:00 Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/ca3547ee-2dc3-4b87-8bc0-b9b7570ef9e8 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:27:22+00:00 Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork globally for Microsoft 365 https://megadose.ai/i/7278992f-acbf-4700-8f5f-a0d3f416c002 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:15:00+00:00 At AWS Summit, AWS announced Continuum, which uses AI to find and fix code vulnerabilities, Context, which organizes company data for AI agents, and more (Todd Bishop/GeekWire) https://megadose.ai/i/aaff2440-5755-4138-9683-edf76ce94a34 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 JAMER: Project-Level Code Framework Dataset and Benchmark on Professional Game Engines https://megadose.ai/i/5c4c7479-aad8-497f-b7c7-953f1056ffb8 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 Beyond Static Leaderboards: Predictive Validity for the Evaluation of LLM Agents https://megadose.ai/i/242c8d3f-2d32-4c9b-87c0-6f23a2cdb396 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 Think Again or Think Longer? Selective Verification for Budget-Aware Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/2268f990-cc4d-4b26-8b19-2e47fb4d65c5 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 FlowBender: Feedback-Aware Training for Self-Correcting Conditional Flows https://megadose.ai/i/41ee2274-316e-4bc4-a43b-1b6407fee1bc Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 HumanScale: Egocentric Human Video Can Outperform Real-Robot Data for Embodied Pretraining https://megadose.ai/i/5734559a-ed11-481c-ac30-f72e87622ace Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 DF3DV-1K: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Distractor-Free Novel View Synthesis https://megadose.ai/i/bb17d5bc-68ad-466c-bcec-775128de4ddd Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 S-Agent: Spatial Tool-Use Elicits Reasoning for Spatial Intelligence https://megadose.ai/i/85c692ab-f96a-40e2-8f3f-21b1621f6428 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World https://megadose.ai/i/aea4f7e5-09c7-47cc-be1d-c2cfd728e209 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 Holo-World: Unified Camera, Object and Weather Control for Video World Model https://megadose.ai/i/c0781808-31a6-498a-9c3d-0b912e8044c1 Megadose en 2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 Current World Models Lack a Persistent State Core https://megadose.ai/i/f0cf1e22-51e7-4f04-a099-7f6c38cb6523 Megadose en 2026-06-17T23:58:39+00:00 GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM https://megadose.ai/i/b76dc454-10f6-4a04-b15f-684579bef863 Megadose en 2026-06-17T19:55:01+00:00 Anthropic updates Claude Design with design system imports, bidirectional integration with Claude Code, lower token consumption, and more export destinations (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat) https://megadose.ai/i/217ac600-7149-40a0-bbdf-a46b729415f0 Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:59:56+00:00 Native Active Perception as Reasoning for Omni-Modal Understanding https://megadose.ai/i/ab638f13-98cb-45be-ada6-0c52347a5aad Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:58:48+00:00 Learning User Simulators with Turing Rewards https://megadose.ai/i/71dac567-5c42-4ebf-8ae3-e8f79690b568 Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:58:22+00:00 Freeing the Law with LOCUS: A Local Ordinance Corpus for the United States https://megadose.ai/i/fca4daa8-2250-4a9b-a4f8-9bc199cf384a Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:54:32+00:00 UBP2: Uncertainty-Balanced Preference Planning for Efficient Preference-based Reinforcement Learning https://megadose.ai/i/76411db6-0123-481a-8287-86848a81e467 Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:54:04+00:00 Rethinking Reward Supervision: Rubric-Conditioned Self-Distillation https://megadose.ai/i/a87d70f6-1e8a-4b73-9b14-4e202162ff71 Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:51:50+00:00 Reference-Driven Multi-Speaker Audio Scene Generation from In-the-Wild Priors https://megadose.ai/i/83a42e22-acc6-47b0-a409-1b8835608a09 Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:45:32+00:00 Data Intelligence Agents: Interpreting, Modeling, and Querying Enterprise Data via Autonomous Coding Agents https://megadose.ai/i/346c0e4a-4f1f-486a-9021-ccbd2792930a Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:43:07+00:00 World model maker Odyssey nabs $1.45B valuation backed by Amazon and other big names https://megadose.ai/i/01c77c75-1f7d-4491-a529-3ad6364dc53f Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:40:55+00:00 Explaining Attention with Program Synthesis https://megadose.ai/i/00b825e9-30a7-47cd-bc19-d87ed512a5f9 Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:38:32+00:00 Diffusion-Proof: Recipe for Formal Theorem Proving Beyond Auto-Regressive Generation https://megadose.ai/i/33107788-3744-40b1-9773-a534c9da04df Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:31:06+00:00 Enhancing Decision-Making with Large Language Models through Multi-Agent Fictitious Play https://megadose.ai/i/5a72e8af-ed19-49f6-b823-2575139beb85 Megadose en 2026-06-17T17:20:46+00:00 Does VLA Even Know the Basics? Measuring Commonsense and World Knowledge Retention in Vision-Language-Action Models https://megadose.ai/i/ee73fc93-06ef-4126-a90d-b444948885a3 Megadose en 2026-06-17T16:45:15+00:00 Paris-based Comand AI, which is developing AI-based command-and-control software for military operations, raised a €32M Series A led by Blossom Capital (Ingrid Lunden/Resilience Media) https://megadose.ai/i/1bce9151-e9e0-48d2-b546-e09c05f85536 Megadose en 2026-06-17T16:40:32+00:00 Structured Inference with Large Language Gibbs https://megadose.ai/i/eaa0df98-7183-4e99-a25c-f24beb43b4d5 Megadose en 2026-06-17T16:39:40+00:00 Detecting Hidden ML Training With Zero-Overhead Telemetry https://megadose.ai/i/1548285f-934f-4f78-bee4-7bca23356922 Megadose en 2026-06-17T16:37:16+00:00 A Multi-Domain Benchmark for Detecting AI-Generated Text-Rich Images from GPT-Image-2 https://megadose.ai/i/d147b49c-e433-4c02-8e08-610051463f35 Megadose en 2026-06-17T16:34:02+00:00 DreamReasoner-8B: Block-Size Curriculum Learning for Diffusion Reasoning Models https://megadose.ai/i/94c84040-d770-458b-a7ba-64e283efbd31 Megadose en 2026-06-17T16:30:26+00:00 X+Slides: Benchmarking Audience-Conditioned Slide Generation https://megadose.ai/i/4cadc083-243e-4c60-ae26-6b14fe1180a5 Megadose en 2026-06-17T16:30:09+00:00 Google bets on Gemini to reinvent the smart home speaker https://megadose.ai/i/67bf6585-4ab8-43ef-8c79-48d0428db4b0 Megadose en 2026-06-17T16:29:19+00:00 OneCanvas: 3D Scene Understanding via Panoramic Reprojection https://megadose.ai/i/2f583cf4-19ef-40cc-8691-8c740693af56 Megadose en 2026-06-17T16:23:45+00:00 TxBench-PP: Analyzing AI Agent Performance on Small-Molecule Preclinical Pharmacology https://megadose.ai/i/08cd29be-4230-434e-aaef-3e4cf9a926d1 Megadose en 2026-06-17T16:13:42+00:00 STARE: Surprisal-Guided Token-Level Advantage Reweighting for Policy Entropy Stability https://megadose.ai/i/68f46ff3-e5f2-4169-a7c9-0c98388fa90e Megadose en 2026-06-17T15:59:21+00:00 Mechanism-Guided Selective Unlearning for RLVR-Induced Reasoning https://megadose.ai/i/f9aee36a-0822-49e9-854c-8e81612225e8 Megadose en 2026-06-17T15:55:33+00:00 RECOM: A Validity Discrimination Tradeoff in Automatic Metrics for Open Ended Reddit Question Answering https://megadose.ai/i/5ecc1dbc-bd1b-4237-950b-4d698cf9abcf Megadose en 2026-06-17T15:15:19+00:00 User as Engram: Internalizing Per-User Memory as Local Parametric Edits https://megadose.ai/i/455a84a8-fc95-4550-ac0e-0316b3143c08 Megadose en 2026-06-17T15:15:02+00:00 XDOF, which is building data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems for robot training data, emerges from stealth with $70M (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/c1d2d781-41aa-40a7-9639-0e6bd1cbc643 Megadose en 2026-06-17T15:13:19+00:00 Dango: A Strictly L1-Only Large Language Model for Studying Second Language Acquisition https://megadose.ai/i/db714461-4bc4-44c8-8a7a-2b247e97e58a Megadose en 2026-06-17T15:11:43+00:00 Beyond Safe Data: Pretraining-Stage Alignment with Regular Safety Reflection https://megadose.ai/i/ff2e429a-098d-44e3-89a5-8224f8c60663 Megadose en 2026-06-17T15:07:11+00:00 Essential Subspace Merging for Multi-Task Learning https://megadose.ai/i/b5e9f314-0360-4d3c-ab68-71e7693e7ce3 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:59:37+00:00 IndicContextEval: A Benchmark for Evaluating Context Utilisation in Audio Large Language Models Across 8 Indic Languages https://megadose.ai/i/3e0c3bb1-611c-4450-9501-7d56a1b64022 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:57:16+00:00 AdsMind: A Physics-Grounded Multi-Agent System for Self-Correcting Discovery of Adsorption Configurations on Heterogeneous Catalyst Surfaces https://megadose.ai/i/d2966e7a-60ac-4b43-a88b-1d009b6672ad Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:56:27+00:00 Complementary Attention Head Pruning for Efficient Transformers https://megadose.ai/i/457faafa-e626-4603-bfab-0735c8c51533 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:56:04+00:00 OpenAnt: LLM-Powered Vulnerability Discovery Through Code Decomposition, Adversarial Verification, and Dynamic Testing https://megadose.ai/i/776b0747-46e2-4690-9251-edb0a6239e96 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:48:10+00:00 OrthoReg: Orthogonal Regularization for Hybrid Symbolic-Neural Dynamical Systems https://megadose.ai/i/6f61f451-6316-4dd0-9be9-ed16bf5ce140 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:46:47+00:00 ChronoSurv: A Clinical Pathway-Guided Graph Framework for Multimodal Survival Analysis https://megadose.ai/i/e2879c53-b7b8-428a-b15f-14ea8da2f269 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:46:29+00:00 Urdu Katib Handwritten Dataset: A Historical Document Dataset for Offline Urdu Handwritten Text Recognition with CRNN-Based Baseline Evaluation https://megadose.ai/i/166dc2f1-a675-40eb-a969-31eee3315e3b Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:46:23+00:00 INDEQS: Informed Neural controlled Differential EQuationS https://megadose.ai/i/87739fa0-b48b-4d39-8f86-c07959db0faa Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:44:31+00:00 Pareto Q-Learning with Reward Machines https://megadose.ai/i/95c2f061-0270-4994-93d7-28962c03e1a8 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:44:02+00:00 Equivariant Graph Neural Networks Improve Optical Spectra Prediction for Materials Screening https://megadose.ai/i/077e6bd1-5df2-4240-9f7c-d7ab1bfe5831 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:40:19+00:00 Giskard : Byzantine Robust and Confidential Aggregation for Large-Scale Decentralized Learning https://megadose.ai/i/64d6e2cc-e3cc-47e8-8799-e4e83e08c03e Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:40:02+00:00 Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 20%+ (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/b02bb724-b6bb-4432-9992-e6ca260853d0 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:35:01+00:00 Pramaana Labs, which uses the LEAN programming language to build a deterministic verification layer on top of LLMs, raised a $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/653b6b46-6d08-4134-a4c3-4d2524854949 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:33:38+00:00 Seeing Before Reasoning: Decoupling Perception and Reasoning for Shortcut-Resilient Multimodal On-Policy Self-Distillation https://megadose.ai/i/12378e27-5bf3-4688-9049-1bf7de54bc68 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:22:18+00:00 JourneyFormer: Encoding Airbnb Guest Journey with Sequence Modeling https://megadose.ai/i/e984e539-8abb-48b0-a9c6-e6dc9c56d214 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:16:47+00:00 ProductConsistency: Improving Product Identity Preservation in Instruction-Based Image Editing via SFT and RL https://megadose.ai/i/3cf05d2c-2573-409c-8e69-7c499da4b2e8 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:15:22+00:00 Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI https://megadose.ai/i/65f2c307-2e34-4041-9d64-d69a1283ac87 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:12:27+00:00 Structure Over Nonlinearity: Explicit Interaction Architectures for Dynamical Learning https://megadose.ai/i/ec66e1b3-9921-4acd-87c6-62e45e0943c8 Megadose en 2026-06-17T14:10:01+00:00 Convey, which is building AI "teammates" to automate manual work at clients like NBCUniversal, raised a $38M Series A led by a16z (Ben Bergman/Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/e23624f5-62cc-40f2-bd31-5b3970a51d09 Megadose en 2026-06-17T13:55:02+00:00 Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge) https://megadose.ai/i/430bf03b-6263-4f79-b523-f6cbf212b5af Megadose en 2026-06-17T13:50:51+00:00 ARIADNE: Agnostic Routing for Inference-time Adapter DyNamic sElection https://megadose.ai/i/27a70070-1e0c-4efb-a247-079b92625eaa Megadose en 2026-06-17T13:50:32+00:00 Nitrosend launched AI-native email platform for agents https://megadose.ai/i/6b16b815-1483-4949-a090-fd4cac2079b0 Megadose en 2026-06-17T13:26:04+00:00 Quantifying and Auditing LLM Evaluation via Positive--Unlabeled Learning https://megadose.ai/i/4807e7f6-1ac9-4745-a5b4-68e3b9f9f600 Megadose en 2026-06-17T13:15:02+00:00 Andera, which uses AI to automate corporate audit and compliance testing, raised a $37M Series A led by Lightspeed (Ryan Lawler/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/155b397b-75f6-4165-9a57-966393b5b625 Megadose en 2026-06-17T13:13:32+00:00 RODS: Reward-Driven Online Data Synthesis for Multi-Turn Tool-Use Agents https://megadose.ai/i/a12d7bef-6e68-4565-a71f-566d63e5d31d Megadose en 2026-06-17T12:50:07+00:00 FoMoE: Breaking the Full-Replica Barrier with a Federation of MoEs https://megadose.ai/i/f4b6e96f-93e5-47e7-95ce-f3244fc17be3 Megadose en 2026-06-17T12:38:09+00:00 Canadian pension giant joins race to fund India’s AI-fueled data center boom https://megadose.ai/i/9e9152ae-f040-430a-a416-e02b46c0996a Megadose en 2026-06-17T12:35:09+00:00 Conduct, which uses AI to let companies maintain, change, and modernize their legacy IT systems, raised a $60M Series A, bringing its total funding to $72M (Chris Metinko/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/acfff6e4-3810-4a87-821c-98d13b8000d9 Megadose en 2026-06-17T12:32:46+00:00 Sumi: Open Uniform Diffusion Language Model from Scratch https://megadose.ai/i/1be0ac27-37ec-4f64-8563-531a9094f8f6 Megadose en 2026-06-17T12:31:44+00:00 Spotlight: Synergizing Seed Exploration and Spot GPUs for DiT RL Post-Training https://megadose.ai/i/39a8ea72-885f-46a2-a6a6-06bb1e11200a Megadose en 2026-06-17T12:17:02+00:00 TRAP: Benchmark for Task-completion and Resistance to Active Privacy-extraction https://megadose.ai/i/91717e45-adb3-4e44-8046-be8b5077e822 Megadose en 2026-06-17T12:14:44+00:00 DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation https://megadose.ai/i/941d67c8-a4da-4172-b1dd-f453b91eabe6 Megadose en 2026-06-17T12:10:01+00:00 Twenty, which uses AI to help US military hackers penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $100M Series B led by Accel at a $1B valuation (Colin Demarest/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/bf15ab94-3557-415b-b1af-9fdcc779a612 Megadose en 2026-06-17T11:51:06+00:00 EfficientRollout: System-Aware Self-Speculative Decoding for RL Rollouts https://megadose.ai/i/f23cf49e-254a-43eb-a48a-45963a803e76 Megadose en 2026-06-17T11:30:01+00:00 The US government awards $500M under the CHIPS Act to SandboxAQ to use AI to develop new chemicals and materials for domestic semiconductor manufacturing (Stephen Nellis/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/547cc81b-2909-4337-9582-b6a514ffe2d8 Megadose en 2026-06-17T11:20:02+00:00 Uber plans to expands its premium robotaxi service from SF to Houston by mid-2027, in partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/0f2a41b8-2a9e-4d3c-a4be-7e1ed8556cbc Megadose en 2026-06-17T11:00:43+00:00 Nauk Nauk, which runs an AI video app that turns photos of toys into short animated videos, raised $20M and is coming out of beta; it claims to have 1M+ users (Ina Fried/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/d8d39076-537e-476f-b226-a7b4200c70c9 Megadose en 2026-06-17T11:00:00+00:00 Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’ https://megadose.ai/i/c286e87d-1468-4e64-8453-32f7769391de Megadose en 2026-06-17T10:35:01+00:00 Sources describe Huawei's efforts to rebuild its chip business seven years after the US cut Huawei off from advanced chips, as it bets on logic-stacking tech (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/fefa0dd2-8709-429f-ae24-3d8b775021af Megadose en 2026-06-17T10:00:00+00:00 A near-autonomous AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry