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Chips & compute · 106 stories, +28 vs last week

Chips & compute: 106 stories in seven days, +28 on the week before.

LabsAccelerating Spatio-Temporal Attention for Video Diffusion on TPUs Google Developers Blog

LabsReproducing Olmo 3 7B Pre-training in MaxText: case study of large scale training on TPUs Google Developers Blog

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Google Developers BlogLabsSupercharge your development with the Google Developer Knowledge API ecosystem Google is launching the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server in public preview. This new toolset provides a canonical, machine-readable way for AI assistants and agentic platforms to search and…

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Google Developers BlogLabsEmbeddingGemma 2: The Developer Guide EmbeddingGemma 2 is a compact, open-source multimodal embedding model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a unified 768-dimensional space.

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Google Developers BlogLabsBring multimodal semantic search to the edge with EmbeddingGemma 2 EmbeddingGemma 2 is a new 740M open-weight multimodal model that maps text, images, video, and audio into a unified vector space for privacy-first, on-device retrieval.

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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