https://megadose.ai/i/3ab5e9ce-ab45-45a9-8306-4ea5272bad54 Megadose en 2026-08-16T22:00:39+00:00 Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things https://megadose.ai/i/4b217b51-bf6a-4b76-84e9-e26185159028 Megadose en 2026-08-16T20:57:04+00:00 Stripe will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ https://megadose.ai/i/233b59a0-d3f3-4422-9f16-f88f433a9ac2 Megadose en 2026-08-16T20:10:01+00:00 Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7B; OpenRouter was valued at $1.3B in May (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/7bea761c-38eb-4c85-9ec6-9ca95e3a71e4 Megadose en 2026-08-16T05:40:01+00:00 Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (Antoine Tardif/Unite.AI) https://megadose.ai/i/524df5c4-f61b-40e5-94e6-f76a2759875e Megadose en 2026-08-15T21:40:00+00:00 A look at Unitree's G1 and R1, the humanoid robots behind viral influencer accounts worldwide, as Unitree shipped 5,500+ units in 2025 and readies its China IPO (Zeyi Yang/Wired) https://megadose.ai/i/a80ba1ff-ebaf-4445-9b9b-f8a4724a2a55 Megadose en 2026-08-15T19:40:01+00:00 Sources: Nvidia in talks to invest up to $3B in SoftBank-backed data center developer SB Energy that aims to IPO soon and is behind a huge OpenAI campus in Ohio (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/e095b2ab-9eb2-4445-a124-0996a90789c9 Megadose en 2026-08-15T18:00:40+00:00 Sources: Mercor and other firms gathering data for AI labs are driving demand to buy or license internal datasets from startups shutting down or being acquired (Alix Coutures/The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/909e164f-95fb-47d4-aa79-8cc7904d1550 Megadose en 2026-08-15T16:30:00+00:00 SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition https://megadose.ai/i/5aedd2a6-ac14-4de1-9303-eb44b9fbff46 Megadose en 2026-08-15T06:25:01+00:00 Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and others (Giacomo Lee/SDxCentral) https://megadose.ai/i/da8c27c1-664b-4dbd-9ebb-8ecc610dd7c0 Megadose en 2026-08-15T06:15:01+00:00 SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation (Abhinaya Prabhu/Tech Funding News) https://megadose.ai/i/7d74edd6-f961-4006-871e-2012be8659a3 Megadose en 2026-08-15T06:00:01+00:00 Sources: China plans to soon lift a travel ban on Manus founders as the company unwinds its $2B acquisition by Meta; CEO Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore (Zijing Wu/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/208f5b6b-b0f0-478e-b664-215aa3ac2b5a Megadose en 2026-08-15T05:25:00+00:00 Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research) https://megadose.ai/i/f1634368-ac03-46a9-b8d3-adf0521f994f Megadose en 2026-08-15T05:00:51+00:00 Sources: OpenAI's repeated exec reshuffles and departures have frustrated some staff as it prepares for an IPO; it disbanded its "preparedness" team in July (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/c1afa436-e36c-4b1a-a7c1-65fe17f72851 Megadose en 2026-08-15T01:00:51+00:00 Sources: Anthropic projects 2028 revenue of ~$190B-$200B, vs. a revenue run rate of $47B in May, as bankers and investors price the company ahead of an IPO (Echo Wang/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/7086752a-2abe-4d96-81ac-da89c9db29df Megadose en 2026-08-14T23:50:01+00:00 Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/7fe6a79f-1a3a-45e1-a136-d62a75e7d581 Megadose en 2026-08-14T23:40:01+00:00 SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup (Bloomberg)