Signal of the week

Funding & deals · 60 stories, +40 vs last week

Funding & deals: 60 stories in seven days, +40 on the week before.

EuropeMagic AI raises £8m to take its AI-powered fitness mirror to the US Sifted

JapanSoftBank-backed SB Energy seen delaying IPO on valuation concerns Nikkei Asia Technology

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SiftedEuropeMagic AI raises £8m to take its AI-powered fitness mirror to the US Beringea and IW Capital back London-based fitness mirror startup

September 23

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanSingapore to get Waymo robotaxis in 2028 as autonomous race grows US operator prepares entry as Grab, ComfortDelGro expand driverless trials

September 23

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanFoxconn leads Taiwan tech firms in plan for AI, EV hub in Poland Multibillion-dollar project aims to boost strategic resilience for Taipei, Warsaw, EU

September 23

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanEl Nino, AI to widen economic growth gap in developing Asia: ADB India, Malaysia, Vietnam ride on tech exports despite climate and energy shocks

September 23

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubanthropics/financial-services

September 23

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubagent-substrate/substrate

September 23

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubdream-num/univer

September 23

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubalibaba/open-code-review

September 23

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubanthropics/claude-code

September 23

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubTencent/WeKnora

September 23

llama.cpp releases

llama.cpp releasesToolsb11136 server: accept OpenAI video_url content type and data: video URIs ( #27921 ) The OpenAI chat completions API specifies content part type "video_url" with a {"url": ...} object, and clients typically…

September 23

Google Developers BlogLabsColab is now part of your Google AI plan Unlock premium Google Colab compute with Google AI. Subscribers now get priority accelerators, Premium GPUs, and background execution for long training runs.

September 23

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