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Chips & compute · 156 stories, +84 vs last week

Chips & compute: 156 stories in seven days, +84 on the week before.

JapanTaiwan's first-ever chip workers strike hits Micron plant Nikkei Asia Technology

JapanMalaysia's SkyeChip joins SoftBank-backed AI memory project in Japan Nikkei Asia Technology

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Bloomberg Technology

Bloomberg TechnologyValleyHollywood Executives Weigh AI’s Promise — and Risks Four entertainment leaders debate AI’s growing role in Hollywood — who stands to benefit, what’s at risk, and what it means for jobs, ownership and creative control. (Source: Bloomberg)

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InfoQ AIGitHubPresentation: Actors for Agents: Patterns for Production AI Manju Rajashekhar explains how the actor model solves the complex runtime challenges of production AI agents.

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanTaiwan's first-ever chip workers strike hits Micron plant Dispute is over pay and bonuses not reflecting AI memory profits

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanMalaysia's SkyeChip joins SoftBank-backed AI memory project in Japan Semiconductor designer pushes into advanced tech as it expands beyond US and China

10.22

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanAI-detected PHP security flaws disrupt websites, spark warnings across Asia Airlines and banks take precautionary action as governments urge updates

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubcloudflare/security-audit-skill

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubvllm-project/vllm

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubstablyai/orca

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubanthropics/claude-plugins-official

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubK-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubruvnet/ruflo

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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