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Funding & deals · 54 stories, +42 vs last week

Funding & deals: 54 stories in seven days, +42 on the week before.

LabsWhy Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering Google Developers Blog

AsiaAmazon Pay FY26 loss widens 33% to Rs 1,149 crore despite revenue surge MediaNama

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SiftedEuropeCohere’s chief AI officer: US and China will hold us ‘by the throat’ if we don’t develop local capabilities The merger between Cohere and Aleph Alpha was signed earlier this month in a move pitched as a win for sovereignty, and opens the door for more consolidation

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PhoronixSiliconLinux 7.4 To Introduce The Steal Governor For Helping Virtualized Workloads Now queued up for introduction in the Linux 7.4 merge window later in October is the steal governor driver for preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff for today's virtualized world...

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanTSMC affiliate already eyes expansion as first Singapore plant 'sells out' Chipmaker VIS plans 2nd facility as initial one opens instantly full due to AI demand

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanTokyo startup to broker trades of unlisted Japan stocks in US, UK Emerging firms look to avoid premature listing by courting new institutional investors

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanChina's exoskeleton robots muscle into the consumer mainstream Appliance makers and startups race into a nascent market as devices move beyond medical usage

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubpaperclipai/paperclip

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubvectorize-io/hindsight

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubdebpalash/VoiceStudio

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubanthropics/financial-services

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

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubTencent/WeKnora

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TechPowerUpSilicon(PR) GMKtec Launches EVO-X5 Pro with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 and 192 GB Unified Memory GMKtec today officially launched the EVO-X5 Pro, a flagship desktop AI supercomputer built for the emerging Agentic PC era.

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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