Signal of the week

Funding & deals · 91 stories, +78 vs last week

Funding & deals: 91 stories in seven days, +78 on the week before.

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JapanSoftBank plans $50bn AI investment in Malaysia, PM says Nikkei Asia Technology

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Cohere BlogLabsPitchBook in North Connect PitchBook to North to access private markets intelligence, company profiles, investor information, and deal details into your workflows.

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Cohere BlogLabsConcerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model Discover how untrusted open-weight AI models can potentially leak data, even when self-hosted. Learn the security risks and how to protect your enterprise.

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Vercel BlogToolsDiscover 1000+ services on Vercel Connect from the CLI You and your agents can now browse and search more than 1000 services available in Vercel Connect without leaving your terminal.

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Vercel BlogToolsRun Scale AI’s AgentEnv evals on Vercel Sandbox AgentEnv , Scale AI's framework for testing agents against tasks and scoring their results, now runs on Vercel Sandbox .

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VS Code UpdatesToolsVisual Studio Code 1.144 (Insiders) Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.144 (Insiders) Read the full article

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Transformers releasesToolsRelease: v5.21.0 Release v5.21.0 New Model additions MiniCPM-OCR MiniCPM-OCR is a document-understanding model from OpenBMB's MiniCPM-V family.

10.26

Bloomberg Technology

Bloomberg TechnologyValleyAnthropic to Deliver Menlo’s Biggest-Ever Return Menlo Ventures’ investment in Anthropic will deliver the firm’s largest return ever when the AI company goes public, says partner Matt Murphy.

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Microsoft SourceLabsFrom classrooms to careers: The future of education in an AI-driven world Tags: AI Education On the issues

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubmakecindy/cindy

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubNutlope/hallmark

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubdebpalash/VoiceStudio

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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