https://megadose.ai/i/57585b8d-4351-49ac-ab0f-756fb62a143b Megadose en 2026-08-01T14:35:31+00:00 OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science (OpenAI) https://megadose.ai/i/27fe231b-7f48-4043-bdbf-76ab54f74930 Megadose en 2026-08-01T09:54:33+00:00 xAI adds character references and 1080p to Imagine Video 1.5 https://megadose.ai/i/575aca2d-cbc3-42f3-98ad-67881b88355d Megadose en 2026-08-01T09:32:34+00:00 Thinking Machines launched open-weight Inkling-Small https://megadose.ai/i/c499aed6-fcdf-4398-8408-add368cbd853 Megadose en 2026-08-01T06:20:08+00:00 Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (Chris Metinko/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/cc109827-2dc6-4ae9-9625-a0b57d8b4b8f Megadose en 2026-08-01T06:15:01+00:00 Harmony, which offers AI-powered enterprise software for handling tasks such as employee onboarding and software access, raised a $34M seed led by Lightspeed (Geoff Weiss/Business Insider) https://megadose.ai/i/0e7bb368-3dcd-4487-ad2e-cfff4ae438a8 Megadose en 2026-08-01T06:10:00+00:00 Foundational Industries, which aims to build AI-run factories for physical products, starting with custom data center rack enclosures, raised a $25M seed (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/de6c3823-abfd-478a-97c3-d6b362a64c15 Megadose en 2026-08-01T04:50:09+00:00 Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/6bb269f7-3a1d-4f91-939a-72e9661e3d09 Megadose en 2026-08-01T00:00:00+00:00 Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science https://megadose.ai/i/a5810400-69ef-4e17-96d0-d43438eb4638 Megadose en 2026-07-31T23:59:44+00:00 deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 https://megadose.ai/i/0e36ee26-6c73-449a-9d24-ef2a619b5182 Megadose en 2026-07-31T23:13:22+00:00 Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp) https://megadose.ai/i/f034196b-b6c0-4e22-96d0-092a3b77a1f9 Megadose en 2026-07-31T22:25:09+00:00 Sources: OpenAI demoed a new "Astra" AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks (The Information) https://megadose.ai/i/86662cdb-7b0d-429c-b294-ef2c2eaa45bb Megadose en 2026-07-31T22:10:01+00:00 Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/221fb0b2-c1cb-494d-9d12-622ec83f4a57 Megadose en 2026-07-31T21:32:28+00:00 Gemini for macOS adds new "Speak to Window" feature https://megadose.ai/i/7511d7d0-3595-4dda-a2ca-3c92004f81b6 Megadose en 2026-07-31T17:00:50+00:00 Sources: NXP is in talks to buy Ambarella, which has a market cap of ~$3.3B and makes image-processing chips for security cameras and self-driving cars (Oliver Barnes/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/b37cf90d-93b7-4291-ab69-a1156836983c Megadose en 2026-07-31T15:10:01+00:00 South Korea plans to inject ~$14B into its sovereign wealth fund for strategic investments in AI, data centers, and infrastructure, after a rout in tech stocks (Haram Lim/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/9c754c05-483e-41d0-b9b0-15826c213f30 Megadose en 2026-07-31T14:55:00+00:00 MediaTek says its board has approved a discretionary $5B financing budget to support long-term growth, including its expansion into AI chips for data centers (Wen-Yee Lee/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/3c9cf668-200a-4dd6-b726-3daef7e61b02 Megadose en 2026-07-31T14:47:11+00:00 Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human https://megadose.ai/i/997eeddb-c2e0-494c-80cd-ae2449d6c06c Megadose en 2026-07-31T14:30:02+00:00 DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April (Artificial Analysis) https://megadose.ai/i/9300ecc7-7335-40ea-b1e0-2f0b3742031e Megadose en 2026-07-31T14:25:01+00:00 Google starts rolling out access to Gemini Spark for Google AI Pro subscribers to over 160 countries and adds a Chrome auto browse integration on desktop (Abner Li/9to5Google) https://megadose.ai/i/23a31418-57f6-4c8c-a886-bcd4eee265e9 Megadose en 2026-07-31T13:40:00+00:00 Sources: Moonshot has a computing power agreement with Alibaba for the use of ~20K Nvidia chips; some say the deal is for H200 chips, which Alibaba denies (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/a497a2b9-6210-43aa-8518-e52814f7d8b5 Megadose en 2026-07-31T12:15:01+00:00 Sources: Eric Trump-backed Space-Eyes, which develops AI-powered defense tech for the public sector, agrees to go public via a SPAC merger at a $638M valuation (Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/5da06867-fb25-48da-8af9-cbad6e2e82a5 Megadose en 2026-07-31T10:20:00+00:00 Letter: Situational Awareness is down ~67% in July, but remains up ~80% in 2026; sources say it planned to sell $3.5B of its Anthropic stake but backed out (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/cefede1c-dd06-418c-92af-1be58c8e8169 Megadose en 2026-07-31T09:55:01+00:00 DeepSeek rolls out the official V4 Flash API in public beta, touting enhanced agent capabilities and benchmark scores "far surpassing" V4 Pro Preview (Newley Purnell/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/f1b98123-c376-480e-bd8f-897ea88100de Megadose en 2026-07-31T09:01:11+00:00 Google Earth's Nano Banana 2 feature generates images of refugees near Mexico's border and a nuclear plant in Iran; Google says images carry a SynthID watermark (Henk van Ess/Digital Digging) https://megadose.ai/i/cfe9b50d-5855-4399-ac9c-609d170d3b5f Megadose en 2026-07-31T05:05:07+00:00 MiniMax releases H3, a video model that generates up to 15-second clips in 2K resolution with native stereo sound, and plans to release its weights within days (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters) https://megadose.ai/i/96c0930a-2434-4f2f-a29a-c432af9e13f2 Megadose en 2026-07-31T04:40:54+00:00 [AINews] GPT 5.6 price cut by 20%-80%: Cost of GPT 5.4 Intelligence dropped 13x in 4 months due to GPT 5.6 recursive self-optimization https://megadose.ai/i/07490e6b-f22c-4965-9e11-5d6bbfeabcb7 Megadose en 2026-07-31T04:30:01+00:00 Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta spent a combined $1.1T in capex from the start of the AI boom in 2023 through June 2026 and plan to spend $745B this year (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/85c294dd-2300-4284-a8c9-01137eaefd47 Megadose en 2026-07-31T01:50:01+00:00 Shares of SK Hynix and Samsung surge more than 20% in Seoul on Friday, marking a sharp reversal from this week's sell-off (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/f216b5a4-a8b0-4449-8d8a-b3b7a5152b8c Megadose en 2026-07-31T00:55:01+00:00 Microsoft's stock closed up 15.5% on Thursday, adding ~$450B to its market capitalization, the largest single-day market value increase in stock market history (Subrat Patnaik/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/b57f9c5e-1b72-4b6e-b704-d5b9e2c07c6d Megadose en 2026-07-30T23:58:42+00:00 Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 https://megadose.ai/i/317f8d42-8052-40e5-905b-d43cc69579d6 Megadose en 2026-07-30T20:36:36+00:00 Science One Framework: A verifiable autonomous research framework via Chain-of-Evidence https://megadose.ai/i/91f71028-e6c5-4fca-a838-f5bfc50a9b28 Megadose en 2026-07-30T20:07:39+00:00 Amazon reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to $200.6B, net income up 245% to $62.6B, operating income up 43% to $27.5B, and a $25B+ annual revenue run rate for chips (Amazon) https://megadose.ai/i/4f55fa13-e5d9-446f-816d-e7868e824f43 Megadose en 2026-07-30T19:10:01+00:00 Sources: DeepSeek plans to build a 1 GW data center in Inner Mongolia and aims to bring at least part of its capacity online by the end of 2027 or early 2028 (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/89e4e5f0-d894-4666-ad51-d28acbd022f3 Megadose en 2026-07-30T18:15:01+00:00 Source: Situational Awareness' assets have fallen to ~$10B after it liquidated some positions to meet margin calls, down from a reported $20B+ as of late May (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/88874bd4-46aa-40c2-9e74-470a8ac8a0c9 Megadose en 2026-07-30T18:05:13+00:00 Okta agrees to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso; source: the acquisition is valued at just under $200M and is structured as an almost all-cash deal (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/23b1359b-9c9f-490b-a723-18adf225984c Megadose en 2026-07-30T18:00:33+00:00 Thinking Machines releases Inkling-Small, an open-weight model with 276B total and 12B active parameters, saying it "achieves comparable performance" to Inkling (Thinking Machines Lab) https://megadose.ai/i/8e456436-5b0e-4ea4-bc1a-07f684a9b463 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:59:56+00:00 ReToken: One Token to Improve Vision-Language Models for Visual Retrieval https://megadose.ai/i/35f82c7f-5e4f-40c5-bf2d-c634eb8719d8 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:59:11+00:00 AskChem: Claim-Centered Infrastructure for Chemistry Literature Synthesis https://megadose.ai/i/7ff6e892-a5db-4855-b9ab-289d6f29ad13 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:57:41+00:00 OSReward: Instituting Standardized Evaluation for Cross-Platform Computer-Use Reward Models https://megadose.ai/i/044a9dd9-0921-4956-a1f9-19de6a7053e8 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:55:02+00:00 Sources: a group of banks is in talks to lend $15B to Nexus to build a Texas data center; Anthropic will lease it and Google has provided financial guarantees (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/13eb79ae-565d-48df-870f-d008c5cb166f Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:44:31+00:00 Change2Task: From Repository Changes to Executable Coding Agent Tasks and Environments https://megadose.ai/i/98350266-2f5f-4bac-8c13-95486436acbb Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:43:46+00:00 VAD: Attributing Visual Evidence for Target Reconstruction in Multimodal On-Policy Distillation https://megadose.ai/i/bbdc14fc-8cba-4c26-8b21-ecc6e7843e47 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:42:44+00:00 PAIChecker: Uncovering and Checking PR-Issue Misalignment in SWE-Bench-Like Benchmarks https://megadose.ai/i/f768840e-bc0d-45f0-8cbb-c49d1172c1ec Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:41:16+00:00 $β$-OPSD: Deriving with Policy Optimization, Training with Self-Distillation https://megadose.ai/i/4c386d9d-f099-4d5a-acfe-c4cc6b5df297 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:40:05+00:00 DualG-MRAG: Decoupling Macro-Reasoning and Micro-Matching for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation https://megadose.ai/i/b232445c-4bec-499a-8f74-3560e135d2cc Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:38:23+00:00 Sample More, Reflect Less: Self-Refine and Reflexion Lose to Repeated Sampling at Equal Token Cost, from 1.5B to 7B https://megadose.ai/i/b98128e0-9ee1-470c-8fe1-ca2a6931fad2 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:36:36+00:00 Rethinking Inference-Time Scaling in Local Computer-Use Agents: Failure Modes and Compute Tradeoffs https://megadose.ai/i/3fc89e72-18c5-4b58-a4a2-671d000cecb4 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:34:01+00:00 Frontis-MA1: Training an AI4AI Model towards Recursive Self-Improvement in Machine Learning Engineering https://megadose.ai/i/08f762bc-47e5-450a-a064-9559176f2358 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:33:42+00:00 Doubly Robust Functional Representation Learning for Longitudinal Causal Inference with Irregular Histories https://megadose.ai/i/45306163-2d10-422d-a2bd-5bf4f523d733 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:21:58+00:00 APO: Unsupervised Atomic Policy Optimization for 3D Structure Prediction of Atomic Systems https://megadose.ai/i/d2a6cd44-4a60-4ccb-8cb7-58ee189786e8 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:14:07+00:00 ORCA-bench: How Ready Are Language Model Agents for Oncall? https://megadose.ai/i/d5ffde7a-88b7-4014-a654-85cfaf636c15 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:05:20+00:00 ScaFE: Data-Efficient Scar Classification with LLM-Generated Clinical Feature Programs https://megadose.ai/i/e4d1ba33-5704-4961-a737-9def3f210365 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:04:56+00:00 Graph Neural Network Force Fields for Spin Dynamics in Metallic Magnets https://megadose.ai/i/65d3e738-eea5-4e3b-afd3-aa780ef61766 Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:01:27+00:00 MANTA: Multi-Agent Network Topology Adaptation for Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems https://megadose.ai/i/b1ab3aed-ba72-4fbc-aa0c-44b2c1ef51cd Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:01:24+00:00 What to Remove, What to Preserve: Dual-Ambiguity Rectification for All-in-One Image Restoration https://megadose.ai/i/ca309f9c-581c-455d-8432-bf9e155a79cc Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:01:20+00:00 Same Graph Cross-Task Transfer in GNNs: Protocols and Predictors https://megadose.ai/i/cae8e7ac-09a4-4e67-897b-e30105f0145b Megadose en 2026-07-30T17:00:00+00:00 Echoverse: Deep, evolving environments for computer-use agents https://megadose.ai/i/fc8e2dc6-abe5-4131-8ac9-9c10d60d0fb4 Megadose en 2026-07-30T16:57:57+00:00 Agents That Certify Their Own Exploits: Confidence-Scheduled Restricted Responses for Safe Opponent Exploitation