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Unibot's early investors, including Meituan, Sequoia Capital, and Matrix Partners, have jointly invested in MiaoDong Technology, another humanoid robotics startup. Founded by former DJI employees—CEO Gao Jianrong, a 9-year DJI veteran who led multiple core business units, and CTO Yang Shuo, who previously worked in Tesla's Optimus team—MiaoDong is known for its combined expertise in hardware productization and advanced robotics cognition. Their core strategy centers on in-house motor R&D and full-stack software-hardware capabilities. The company recently made headlines with its first product, Beni, a wheel-legged "camera robot" designed for low-angle, ground-level filming and personal companionship. Successfully launched on Kickstarter, Beni set a record for the highest fundraising amount in the platform's robotics category. It received a perfect 10/10 rating from influential tech reviewer Marques Brownlee (MKBHD). Beni features capabilities like autonomous obstacle avoidance, the ability to jump 25cm, and self-righting after a fall. MiaoDong plans to leverage the technological and user data feedback from Beni's consumer launch to inform the development of future home-use humanoid robots. The company emphasizes a product-first, user-centric approach, prioritizing real-world applications and reliability over rapid, demo-focused scaling. With Beni set for global release in October and an internal target to sell millions of units, MiaoDong aims to establish itself as a significant player in the embodied AI space through steady, product-driven growth.

NVIDIA is reportedly investing $6 billion to develop a world-leading open-source AI model. The plan involves a strategic deal with AI startup Poolside, including a $6 billion licensing fee for its "model factory" technology, hiring 109 of its core engineers into NVIDIA's Nemotron project, and an additional $1 billion investment in the company. This move is seen as a "soft acquisition" to rapidly gain top talent and technology while avoiding stringent antitrust scrutiny. The engineers will focus on accelerating the development of Nemotron 4, a massive model aiming for trillion-scale parameters, positioning it among the top-tier global AI models. NVIDIA's shift reflects a strategic push to strengthen the open-source AI ecosystem in response to rising competition, particularly from advanced, cost-effective open-weight models like DeepSeek, which have challenged U.S. tech dominance. While NVIDIA risks competing directly with major GPU customers like OpenAI and Anthropic, analysts suggest the company aims to maintain a delicate balance—applying competitive pressure to drive continued demand for its hardware while advancing its own model capabilities. This investment underscores NVIDIA's ambition to move beyond being a mere hardware provider and actively shape the future of AI.

In its "Charts of the Week," a16z highlights three structural shifts in the U.S. economy indicating capital and labor are moving from digital ("bits") to physical ("atoms"). First, ETF themes have rotated from clean energy and healthcare in 2020 to AI, nuclear energy, space, defense, and infrastructure by 2026. Second, data center construction is a major economic driver, creating high-wage blue-collar jobs with significant wage premiums (up to 50% for construction workers) and reshaping local economies. Third, ride-hailing prices are rising (Uber fares up ~20% since 2024), while the gig economy sees explosive growth in social commerce. Meanwhile, AI agents, though early-stage, are consuming nearly 5x more tokens than humans and beginning to displace traditional automation tools like Zapier.

During the week of August 17-23, 2026, which was a strong period for Bitcoin, the company Strategy refrained from buying or selling the cryptocurrency. Instead, it sold 18.26 million shares of MSTR through an ATM program, generating $2 billion in net proceeds. These funds were allocated as follows: $136.4 million to repurchase 1.43 million shares of its own stock (STRC), $300 million to its dollar reserve, and approximately $1.57 billion to a new USD Cash pool. This pool, intended for purposes like future Bitcoin purchases, debt payments, and share buybacks, boosted Strategy's total dollar liquidity to $6.69 billion. The company's Bitcoin holdings remained unchanged at 840,447 BTC, with an average purchase price of $75,385 per coin. Separately, BitMine continued its accumulation of Ethereum, purchasing 32,447 ETH over the same week. CEO Tom Lee stated the company has been buying ETH weekly since launching its treasury strategy in June 2025. Lee cited strengthening fundamentals, asset tokenization on Wall Street, and agent AI as growth drivers, alongside supportive U.S. government policies. He expects the ETH/BTC ratio to rise further, fueled by asset tokenization and AI agent use rather than previous cycle drivers like ICOs and NFTs. BitMine reportedly holds 4.8% of Ethereum's total supply.

Solana has set a new weekly record for non-vote transactions, reaching 1.3 billion, driven by a resurgence in memecoin activity. Network activity has remained high over the past four weeks, consistently surpassing 1 billion non-vote transactions weekly. This surge is attributed to approximately 2.6 million daily active users conducting more transactions, leading Solana's daily burn rate to hit 1.53% on August 23, its highest since early 2025. Primary transaction sources are widely used applications, with daily app fees exceeding $10 million and monthly app revenue over $250 million. The rise in activity has increased network competitiveness, with priority fees and tips for expediting transactions again surpassing $1 million daily. Key drivers include applications like FOMO, which facilitates memecoin launches and copy-trading, and Pump.fun, which now leads blockchain apps in daily fees at over $4.9 million. Beyond transactions, Solana is preparing for significant protocol-level changes. A new Constitution aims to formalize governance rules and empower individual users. Upcoming votes include proposals to reduce inflation over the next six years and potentially increase the burn rate of SOL tokens. SOL traded around $96.19 on August 24, its highest level since May.