https://megadose.ai/i/8640468a-170a-420b-9a31-aef3bd6d6e24 Megadose en 2026-08-18T06:25:42+00:00 Rogue Studio, which calls itself a "playground for creative ethical mischief", launches Rogue 1.0, an AI video tool to make adult content of Hollywood quality (Jason Parham/Wired) https://megadose.ai/i/d15a45c0-b450-4637-af7c-552fdb16f00c Megadose en 2026-08-18T00:45:01+00:00 Sources: Situational Awareness offered part of its $5B Anthropic stake at a 20% discount as it scrambled for cash; word of its trouble left it "being hunted" (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/ab184073-e5b5-49dc-897b-abafd1e15232 Megadose en 2026-08-17T23:58:14+00:00 Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index https://megadose.ai/i/3ef93855-e00b-43e0-9197-3ee2e34339e2 Megadose en 2026-08-17T23:56:26+00:00 Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B https://megadose.ai/i/ed468e9b-a036-4a88-b959-b8a14907d197 Megadose en 2026-08-17T23:13:41+00:00 [AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B https://megadose.ai/i/75111c39-f2f3-427c-b810-0c09f388d1e2 Megadose en 2026-08-17T21:20:00+00:00 Sources: Crusoe is in IPO talks with at least four Wall Street banks, including JPMorgan, which is advising on its $3B pre-IPO fundraise set to value it at $35B (Alan Neuhauser/Axios) https://megadose.ai/i/b52f20a7-fa0d-4834-9269-e30494bc4950 Megadose en 2026-08-17T21:03:18+00:00 GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% https://megadose.ai/i/455f058e-ece3-46af-ae5e-73d484f23f79 Megadose en 2026-08-17T20:00:55+00:00 Sources: Anthropic's revenue run rate reached $65B by the end of July, up from $47B in May and $9B in late 2025 (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/2e52028b-2731-4255-8934-9c19ee839f83 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:59:57+00:00 Don't Drop the BATON: Long-Horizon Robot Manipulation via Agentic Subtask Exploration and Transition-aware Memory https://megadose.ai/i/bcb44cfc-615c-47aa-bc67-fb294e64e428 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:59:55+00:00 Q-based Variational Inverse Reinforcement Learning https://megadose.ai/i/d4049e39-9528-4f91-afe0-10a68d03cafb Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:55:26+00:00 AutoSR: Automatic Symbolic Regression by Searching Research States https://megadose.ai/i/b9fb528f-eb4e-4d30-85cc-0cc86372cb39 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:50:04+00:00 Towards Computational Provenance: Carrying Causal-State Evidence in Generated Text https://megadose.ai/i/9d0ceac8-2306-4fdd-a074-20cd2f961ce6 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:37:07+00:00 What Do Compliance Detectors Read? An Audit of Activation Probes and Guard Models https://megadose.ai/i/4a12ff2c-a53c-4dc0-b487-897fdafd7a79 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:30:43+00:00 Proteus: Incremental Memory Activation for Long-Context Sequence Modeling https://megadose.ai/i/fab0f8e1-2bf0-4819-833f-5abc6160cf54 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:30:01+00:00 Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more (Cursor) https://megadose.ai/i/aba99989-efad-4723-a9b6-a3402e89397e Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:22:33+00:00 HAF: Adapting Generalist VLAs to Humanoid Whole-Body Loco-manipulation via Hierarchical Action Flow and Spectral Latent RL https://megadose.ai/i/8e396c5a-ad42-4806-892e-7caae9dea8cd Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:20:10+00:00 Model Hypnosis: Strong control of AI via additive subliminal effects https://megadose.ai/i/fea564dd-a507-4b01-888c-a8ff535f0054 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:20:00+00:00 Google wins a bankruptcy auction with a $10M bid to acquire deidentified business data, software code, and more from Spirit Airlines to improve its AI models (James Nani/Bloomberg Law) https://megadose.ai/i/857bedfb-c848-4fcb-8f5e-44c90c21b1a9 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:16:43+00:00 Policy Iteration with Human Feedback: Bringing Post-Training RL to In-context Learning https://megadose.ai/i/cde75bbb-0602-4709-a746-59351e20dc7c Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:14:50+00:00 CaliBench: Are the Stochastic Dynamics of Video World Models Physically Calibrated? https://megadose.ai/i/2df59c9c-584b-4935-8650-75906796228f Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:12:11+00:00 GEO-Flag: Detecting and Measuring GEO-Optimized Web Content https://megadose.ai/i/3cc86ab9-77f4-421b-83ee-5c69aff39183 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:04:29+00:00 Quipu: A Governed Bitemporal Knowledge Graph Store https://megadose.ai/i/aba0c8e8-a8fe-41c8-9a29-5633c8b4d8ce Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:02:07+00:00 When State Becomes an Attack Surface: State-Semantic Injection in LLM-Driven Embodied Agents https://megadose.ai/i/304faa08-78af-4df7-9b00-eccd8b4dd01f Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:01:21+00:00 Diagnosing Dense Same-Class Attribute Misbinding in Large Vision-Language Models https://megadose.ai/i/30eb6073-73c9-495f-91e9-6522e4a4b8d7 Megadose en 2026-08-17T17:00:50+00:00 Nvidia's $500B funding package announcement for AI infrastructure follows SEC's July guidance that confirmed looser restrictions for data center securitizations (Tobias Burns/CNBC) https://megadose.ai/i/60f43681-468e-43b9-a559-2a590b8de6f7 Megadose en 2026-08-17T16:57:38+00:00 When Agents Coordinate: Measuring Coordination in Multi-Agent AI Coding https://megadose.ai/i/ba8d4479-2c59-454c-a599-545bf40003a0 Megadose en 2026-08-17T16:53:03+00:00 ClawGym II: Exploring Black-Box RL on Agent Harness https://megadose.ai/i/9d6ec03e-18c4-4816-b276-1612c174b4ee Megadose en 2026-08-17T16:51:06+00:00 Historical Backtesting for Scientific Question Discovery: A Protocol and Astronomy Pilot https://megadose.ai/i/efa936fc-428c-4f76-853a-5134f421d9d4 Megadose en 2026-08-17T16:50:59+00:00 Neurosymbolic Embodied Agents https://megadose.ai/i/5c367d76-db82-483b-ac8b-a48645369ffb Megadose en 2026-08-17T16:23:49+00:00 GRIP: Grounded Reasoning via Information-Restricted Premises https://megadose.ai/i/4dc4d2e2-5cd7-4a52-ae4b-13455d18bf28 Megadose en 2026-08-17T16:15:50+00:00 TRACE-Bench: Decomposing and Diagnosing Multi-Reference Image Generation https://megadose.ai/i/a85104c0-09ca-4671-bace-48f2ee1d7ce7 Megadose en 2026-08-17T16:15:12+00:00 Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud https://megadose.ai/i/45c58993-afed-435f-8106-68d108d68b15 Megadose en 2026-08-17T16:07:25+00:00 On the Principles Behind Neural Network Optimizers https://megadose.ai/i/658e787f-5e45-4bed-843d-2f066e42eca6 Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:57:06+00:00 Would this change your answer? Evaluating Explanations of LLM Behavior In The Wild with Counterfactual Experiments https://megadose.ai/i/d894a392-a83e-421d-8cdf-aefb7dde88c3 Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:52:04+00:00 TDD-Agent: Test-Driven Reasoning for Code Generation https://megadose.ai/i/7f9d243c-6b07-40b8-ad29-7e764f123681 Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:49:36+00:00 Le Critique: Privileged Value Functions for LLM Reinforcement Learning https://megadose.ai/i/a3972a5a-09f7-4f76-9c12-504f62dbdbe3 Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:28:44+00:00 Vorflux opens sign-ups for its automated coding platform https://megadose.ai/i/8b17dafb-7ab5-4198-8cdf-245ff46f4f87 Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:25:38+00:00 MIRROR: Multimodal Intelligent Radiology Reasoning and Observation Reporter https://megadose.ai/i/c0fb7101-a5a8-47c2-9054-d4a590d15d7a Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:25:18+00:00 Semantic Bandits: In-Context Exploration-Exploitation is Biased by Semantic Priors https://megadose.ai/i/7c115872-98a0-43dc-bc8b-6bc17c2bdb73 Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:18:34+00:00 Learning to Unlearn: Machine Unlearning via Learning the Unlearning Behaviors https://megadose.ai/i/3614cf18-918d-41ba-9dd5-d58de5d9d829 Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:16:24+00:00 Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project https://megadose.ai/i/2eb42271-1742-46f5-910a-4f413e05d499 Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:14:53+00:00 FabriMAE I Trust Myself? Self-Evaluating VLA Action Generation with Markov Attention Entropy https://megadose.ai/i/0211b22d-1b0b-483e-a9d3-09f8e8c4387c Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:14:05+00:00 UniTAC: Universal Task-Aware Compression via Weighted Distortion Measures https://megadose.ai/i/a90ab010-929d-4537-9f60-6f8e26dde1ac Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:10:05+00:00 Hide&Seek: Learning to Explain in an End-to-End Differentiable Network https://megadose.ai/i/bc36118e-2976-4d3c-b439-8f7cf4befc5e Megadose en 2026-08-17T15:08:38+00:00 Closing the Affective Loop: Multimodal Speaker-Listener Emotion-Dynamics-Aware Empathetic Social Robots https://megadose.ai/i/0e860dca-fa7b-4dbc-ae71-c7de5d837c94 Megadose en 2026-08-17T14:30:01+00:00 Filing: Nvidia agrees to spend up to $105B to support SB Energy's new data center campus in Ohio set to be leased by OpenAI; Nvidia invests $1.5B in SB Energy (Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/643d3e20-8491-475f-bb7c-ac30b2478660 Megadose en 2026-08-17T14:00:36+00:00 ETH Zurich spinout Gravis Robotics raised a $200M Series A from SoftBank to scale Gravis Rack, a retrofit autonomous control appliance that mounts on excavators (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE) https://megadose.ai/i/23b84750-a4e8-4537-ab1d-4730b753172c Megadose en 2026-08-17T13:10:05+00:00 Wispr raises $280M at $2B valuation as it looks beyond dictation https://megadose.ai/i/7c1781fc-b946-4fc0-a977-3f113683439c Megadose en 2026-08-17T13:00:14+00:00 OpenAI signs a 20-year, 10GW data center deal in Ohio with SoftBank's SB Energy; Nvidia agrees to backstop a portion of the value of the completed data center (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/eab0f8bc-9c81-4ebe-9bd3-ffc6c10d815b Megadose en 2026-08-17T12:55:01+00:00 Groq raised $350M led by Disruptive at a $3.5B valuation, down from $6.9B in September 2025 before Nvidia struck a licensing deal and hired much of its talent (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg) https://megadose.ai/i/dab85b18-2b5d-408e-bc4f-090a6dece871 Megadose en 2026-08-17T12:25:01+00:00 Chip giants participated in startup funding rounds collectively surpassing $250B YTD; Nvidia leads the sector in deal volume with a record 59 funding rounds (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News) https://megadose.ai/i/bc9c2f5b-01af-4678-aa75-25aafe27f75c Megadose en 2026-08-17T11:25:01+00:00 Voice AI startup Wispr raised a $280M Series B led by Menlo Ventures at a $2B valuation, taking its total funding to $361M, and now has 100K business customers (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune) https://megadose.ai/i/4997c7ce-a00a-4e5c-8b5c-6d690c9b8e4a Megadose en 2026-08-17T10:45:03+00:00 Sources: Meta and BlackRock's $14B El Paso data center project is not insured against total loss, exposing lenders to credit risks and big potential liabilities (Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/d4f295ea-4e05-415f-a8d0-9ff4d695cfb2 Megadose en 2026-08-17T10:34:00+00:00 Seeing beyond BMI: Estimating cardiometabolic risk with smartphone imagery https://megadose.ai/i/ab2db3ad-657f-4745-9a17-36b3723a5d70 Megadose en 2026-08-17T10:00:00+00:00 Stripe Acquiring OpenRouter, Aggregating AI?, Flipping the Business Model https://megadose.ai/i/1cf94b84-f81f-4fdf-9720-3b8a1c76851b Megadose en 2026-08-17T09:45:03+00:00 Analysis: nine top tech companies including Alphabet and Meta had ~$3T of AI-related off-balance-sheet commitments, far exceeding their $600B in reported capex (Wall Street Journal) https://megadose.ai/i/46244e33-0a45-4476-8df1-56eab5289e41 Megadose en 2026-08-17T05:25:01+00:00 Qwen 3.8 27B shows a 17GB open-weight general purpose model can have long context, effective tool calling, strong vision ability, and competent code generation (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog) https://megadose.ai/i/bdc3f759-8542-45e2-888f-517dfa20c5b8 Megadose en 2026-08-17T05:10:01+00:00 AI video generation startup Higgsfield raised $400M from DST, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Intel, and others at a $5.4B valuation, up from $1.3B in January (James Fontanella-Khan/Financial Times) https://megadose.ai/i/d8e2b640-70be-44e6-984f-8388ac8ed11a Megadose en 2026-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 Improving the matrix multiplication exponent with modern optimization and AlphaEvolve https://megadose.ai/i/6e92d362-6b93-4c5f-b25b-51883247e9d8 Megadose en 2026-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 Ventor-QTest: Threat-Model-Driven Verification of Vendor-Hosted LLM APIs https://megadose.ai/i/50f964f2-7313-4289-92c9-ffb9a4548d7d Megadose en 2026-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 ClawGym II: Exploring Black-Box RL on Agent Harness https://megadose.ai/i/4554b327-fe63-48d5-9a3b-c6bf681e98bc Megadose en 2026-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 R^3-Bench: LLMs Struggle with Resource-Rational Reasoning under Shared Budgets https://megadose.ai/i/ea6711da-094e-42c8-8f90-4720aacd88b2 Megadose en 2026-08-17T00:00:00+00:00 GenRouter: Unified Workflow Routing for Agentic Image Generation https://megadose.ai/i/9ccc47ec-f7a7-4203-8c87-3cdbe396a75a Megadose en 2026-08-16T22:35:01+00:00 How a Claude model made a math breakthrough during its unsuccessful 54-hour attempt to solve the Riemann hypothesis after a user repeatedly encouraged it (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal) 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/d66b5eed-6594-4d89-8205-ff48a2561b02 Megadose en 2026-08-16T20:31:16+00:00 Stripe Clinches over $7B Deal to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter 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)