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Funding & deals · 82 stories, +56 vs last week

Funding & deals: 82 stories in seven days, +56 on the week before.

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

South Korea bets $3.49 billion on building a homegrown frontier AI model to rival China's best The Decoder

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PhoronixSiliconThe Importance Of Intel's LPMD For Linux Gaming Performance & Power Efficiency Intel's LPMD project as the Low Power Mode Daemon for modern Intel Core Ultra desktops and laptops is quite important for achieving peak performance and optimal power efficiency.

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llama.cpp releasesToolsb11440 llama : re-reserve the sched when the nextn extraction flags change ( #30020 ) The speculative MTP init enables NextN extraction on the target and draft contexts after both were created and their…

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanOpenAI steps up safety, promises earlier disclosure after Australian hack Company's chief strategy officer tells lawmakers response was 'not good enough'

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanChina's Q3 growth estimated below target at 4.4% despite AI boom Economists see only slight uptick as tech can't offset property, consumption woes

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanQualcomm to pay Huawei for first time in 5G, AI patent breakthrough Mobile chipmakers' licensing deal will need U.S. regulatory approval

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Axios TechnologyValley"I don't want an oligopoly": New open-weight AI models mount a comeback against China A new crop of powerful, Western open-weight AI systems are mounting a comeback, with fresh models from Reflection and Mistral narrowing China's recent lead.

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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