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Funding & deals · 78 stories, +65 vs last week

Funding & deals: 78 stories in seven days, +65 on the week before.

ResearchEka Robotics raises $150M to scale its vision-force-action model for robots The Robot Report

AsiaIndian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More Inc42

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanSF writer Daniel Suarez warns of AI-powered authoritarianism Leader armed with killer robots, mass surveillance could imperil democracy

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanMitsubishi Materials to boost thermal sensor output on AI demand Japanese company to expand capacity by sixfold at Thai production site

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanPHP security flaws prompt Japan to take websites down while US keeps them up Japanese companies halt online services out of abundance of caution

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

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubphp/php-src

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubanthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

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

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubruvnet/ruflo

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubandroid/skills

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Google Developers BlogLabsStreaming comes to API Gateway: real-time and AI-ready APIs, without changing your spec API Gateway now supports real-time streaming—including Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, gRPC, and chunked transfer encoding—in Public Preview without requiring changes to your existing API…

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Google Developers BlogLabsArchitecting Governed, Self-Evolving AI Agents on Google Cloud Learn how Project Chrysalis combines Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Agent Development Kit (ADK), BigQuery, and a four-gate defense-in-depth security stack (Model Armor, Cloud KMS…

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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