Signal of the week

Funding & deals · 77 stories, +69 vs last week

Funding & deals: 77 stories in seven days, +69 on the week before.

EuropeExclusive: Dig Ventures raises $120m to back Europe’s AI infrastructure startups Sifted

AsiaSG-based Bolttech, Bold Penguin form global insurance partnership Tech in Asia

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SiftedEuropeExclusive: Dig Ventures raises $120m to back Europe’s AI infrastructure startups The firm plans to back around 30 European pre-seed and seed companies.

October 1

SiftedEuropeWellness marketplace Healf tops Sifted ranking of 250 fastest-growing startups in Europe Digital health companies make strong showing in Sifted's third Europe-wide leaderboard

October 1

Tech in AsiaAsiaSG-based Bolttech, Bold Penguin form global insurance partnership It would also bring together Bolttech's AI-enabled workflows and distribution.

October 1

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanThe future of AI belongs to the orchestrators Why the future of artificial intelligence is collective, resilient, and being built in Japan

October 1

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanUS fintech Stripe eyes AI shopping in Japan with launch of Meta's Muse Age of automatic agentic commerce nears, but some consumers balk at idea

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubdebpalash/VoiceStudio

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubNVIDIA/OpenShell

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubvectorize-io/hindsight

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubanthropics/financial-services

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubvercel/next.js

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubHKUDS/CLI-Anything

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Codex releasesToolsrust-v0.161.0-alpha.8 Release 0.161.0-alpha.8

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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