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Funding & deals · 87 stories, +66 vs last week

Funding & deals: 87 stories in seven days, +66 on the week before.

JapanFrench unrest, AI debt risks push investors toward ultralong JGBs Nikkei Asia Technology

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanCybersecurity companies urge Indonesia to boost AI talent Southeast Asia's largest economy at high risk of online attacks, scams

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanAustralian data center operator NextDC shares fall 40% after power backlash Forecasts slashed after community opposition stalls AI expansion plans

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanVietnam security ministry seeks Samsung's help on AI and chips Partnership underscores expanding technology ambitions of powerful police agency

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubmksglu/context-mode

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The name is the button.

An agent writes the code now, and a human thumb hovers over Accept all a hundred times a day. The honest question of this decade is what, exactly, you just accepted. So I read the diff.

Eight years as a backend engineer in Stockholm, back in Tokyo since 2023, and I still ship something small most nights, usually badly. My one rule: the only real review of a model is the thing you built with it. That is why there is no leaderboard on this site.

Around a hundred and forty sources come through — the labs' own posts, the papers, the tools, the runtimes and languages nobody is watching yet, the chip under the demo, and the newsletters people actually forward. What is moving gets counted so the week reads at a glance, and every few days I explain one mechanism in plain words.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one image and the link to whoever wrote it. We never reproduce the post; the images belong to their authors. A post written in Japanese appears in Japanese, exactly as it was published, and the link goes to the original.

— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo