https://megadose.ai/i/cc03fbda-11d8-44e6-bf8c-4aa50faf9d10 Megadose en 2026-10-18T06:10:04+00:00 AI debt worries mount as CoreWeave's bond yield tops 15%, insuring SoftBank debt gets pricier, and some Oracle debt trades near 80 to 90 cents on the dollar (New York Times) https://megadose.ai/i/e00a3682-09fd-4b1c-a584-90b4c795373f Megadose en 2026-10-18T06:05:00+00:00 Microsoft cancels its deal with Nscale to serve as the anchor tenant and rent 23K Nvidia AI chips at a planned data center facing repeated delays in Essex, UK (James Titcomb/Telegraph) https://megadose.ai/i/15a72116-43f1-41a3-91ef-fe7916995d42 Megadose en 2026-10-18T05:40:01+00:00 Holyvolt, which develops AI tools for making and testing new battery materials, raised $45M from Zone II, CC.VC, and others, a source says at a $245M valuation (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/0c610096-1f27-44da-b75a-7d7315a71bff Megadose en 2026-10-18T03:50:01+00:00 Filing: Disney agreed to hire 60+ staff from Character.AI and pay them ~$180M over three years, plus $30M for retention awards; a bankruptcy judge must approve (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/89a71b3a-67c4-4f2a-8332-0e5110032276 Megadose en 2026-10-17T18:48:08+00:00 Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says https://megadose.ai/i/d99ab96a-2873-4bb9-9462-2bbe4d55e564 Megadose en 2026-10-17T15:00:37+00:00 DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017, an update it says offers "stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs" than its predecessor (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/7dc7c92a-be57-46b4-91ae-d5d075477011 Megadose en 2026-10-17T08:37:46+00:00 DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 https://megadose.ai/i/c0647f01-9da3-4b8c-aae2-186f65b95fc0 Megadose en 2026-10-17T08:21:25+00:00 DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 https://megadose.ai/i/b40e73bf-0d8f-476e-883c-e706be7a7aef Megadose en 2026-10-17T06:15:02+00:00 Reach Security, which develops AI-powered exposure management tools for securing enterprise systems, raised a $50M+ Series B led by Top Tier Capital Partners (FinTech Global) https://megadose.ai/i/db1c39d8-8364-48cf-b0db-2e107d958cc1 Megadose en 2026-10-17T06:05:01+00:00 Duvo, which develops tech to automate business processes across enterprise systems, including ERPs and legacy apps, raised a $32M Series A led by Balderton (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders) https://megadose.ai/i/e49288f7-9d58-4379-bddc-4c79bfa024ad Megadose en 2026-10-17T05:30:01+00:00 London-based Scarlet, which certifies AI and software for medical devices, raised a $50M Series B led by Headline to support its US and Asia-Pacific expansion (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu) https://megadose.ai/i/4141b7ab-239b-4734-914a-569cff2743e1 Megadose en 2026-10-17T05:05:01+00:00 Mistlabs, which develops Ambi, an ambient AI app for iPhone, Apple Watch, and Mac that learns about users from conversations, raised a $26M pre-Series A (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE) https://megadose.ai/i/85c744f4-d312-4281-bf00-dab5bb55d2fd Megadose en 2026-10-17T04:50:01+00:00 Workday agrees to acquire C1.ai, formerly known as ConductorOne, which develops enterprise software to manage human and AI agent identities and has raised $111M (Malia Spencer/Portland Business Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/f1665633-5552-4091-b662-79f401c58b35 Megadose en 2026-10-17T04:36:53+00:00 Show HN: Llmspeed – feel how fast a local LLM runs before you buy the hardware https://megadose.ai/i/280ea49e-e65b-4d8e-a1fe-7ef1a8ed6416 Megadose en 2026-10-17T01:35:02+00:00 Sources: Anthropic is offering Blackstone a 10%+ yield to help finance Anthropic's $60B debt package to buy Google TPUs; Blackstone would invest $9B in the debt (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/c22e8890-c700-40ad-b280-17529243a76a Megadose en 2026-10-16T22:45:01+00:00 CEO Amjad Masad says Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, citing cost and saying "ChatGPT is better now"; source: the partnership is still in place (TechCrunch) https://megadose.ai/i/9e0391c3-b450-4911-ace8-4a373c388567 Megadose en 2026-10-16T21:22:28+00:00 Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says https://megadose.ai/i/ced04d68-be2f-47a3-98d4-497fa5df4a9a Megadose en 2026-10-16T20:25:02+00:00 Anthropic says Claude traced NIST's ECDSA curve seeds to a pseudorandom number generator, challenging decades-old suspicions of an NSA backdoor in the algorithm (Anthropic) https://megadose.ai/i/c74256e8-b9b1-4534-92a4-cbfffb529099 Megadose en 2026-10-16T19:50:01+00:00 Sources: SoftBank weighs buying US security services giant Allied Universal at an ~$18B equity valuation, as Masayoshi Son explores deploying AI-powered robots (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/9e5afa38-4378-461a-a3e9-5654e29a35b7 Megadose en 2026-10-16T17:50:01+00:00 Three CoreWeave co-founders have sold $3.3B in stock since its March 2025 IPO, including $2.4B in 2026 alone; CoreWeave stock fell 60%+ from its June 2025 peak (Dylan Sloan/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/0956e6d6-e9f1-463a-9cec-3dda81975daa Megadose en 2026-10-16T16:40:02+00:00 Reflection AI releases Apache 2.0-licensed weights for Beam, a 501B-parameter model, trained with RL that penalized unnecessary tokens (Matt Marshall/VentureBeat) https://megadose.ai/i/449bf075-a1ff-4af8-88fd-f1dbd7227c9e Megadose en 2026-10-16T16:01:37+00:00 Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them https://megadose.ai/i/bdd1ff1f-8e68-4609-bc6f-54d2e7d36ece Megadose en 2026-10-16T12:45:02+00:00 Waymo plans to launch its robotaxis in Toronto in 2028 in partnership with Element Fleet Management, the company's first deployment in Canada (Prathik Jayaprakash/Reuters)