Signal of the week

Funding & deals · 75 stories, +62 vs last week

Funding & deals: 75 stories in seven days, +62 on the week before.

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

ValleyUS arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China Ars Technica AI

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanJapan legal tech firm teams with AI provider Harvey to supply data Legalscape research tool to be integrated into US partner's platform

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanToshiba to double hard disk drive supply to fill AI chip memory gap Japan tech group will expand Philippine plant, raise per-unit storage capacity

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubNVIDIA/OpenShell

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubdebpalash/VoiceStudio

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubmvschwarz/openrig

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubpaperclipai/paperclip

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubvectorize-io/hindsight

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubanthropics/financial-services

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Google Developers BlogLabsAccelerating Spatio-Temporal Attention for Video Diffusion on TPUs To address the quadratic latency bottleneck of self-attention in high-resolution video diffusion models, developers implemented Sparse VideoGen (SVG) to dynamically route attention heads to highly…

October 2

Google Developers BlogLabsReproducing Olmo 3 7B Pre-training in MaxText: case study of large scale training on TPUs The MaxText team successfully reproduced Ai2’s Olmo 3 7B language model from scratch on Google Cloud TPUs using JAX/XLA, precisely matching the original PyTorch-on-GPU reference across pre-training…

October 2

Google Developers BlogLabsTurn your REST APIs into MCP tools with Google Cloud API Gateway Google Cloud API Gateway now acts as a native remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, eliminating the need to build and maintain custom middleware to expose REST APIs to AI agents.

October 2

Ars Technica AIValleyUS arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China The US has arrested another suspect accused of smuggling high-end computer servers containing export-controlled Nvidia chips into China.

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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