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Funding & deals · 63 stories, +41 vs last week

Funding & deals: 63 stories in seven days, +41 on the week before.

ValleyNvidia boosts share buyback program by record $150B SiliconANGLE

ValleyDefense cyber intelligence company RedLattice to go public in $1.25B SPAC deal SiliconANGLE

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SiliconANGLEValleyNvidia boosts share buyback program by record $150B Nvidia Corp. today announced plans to spend an additional $150 billion on share buybacks through January 2028. The move represents the largest-ever expansion of a stock repurchase program.

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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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SiliconANGLEValleyDefense cyber intelligence company RedLattice to go public in $1.25B SPAC deal Defense cyber intelligence company RedLattice Inc. announced today that it plans to go public on Nasdaq by merging with special purpose acquisition company Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp.

September 28

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.

September 28

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…

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Google Developers BlogLabsIntroducing Support for Local AI Models in the Antigravity SDK The Google Antigravity SDK now empowers developers to execute offline, agentic workflows locally using models like Gemma 4 26B A4B via LiteRT.

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanJapan's Resonac develops large wafers that can yield 4 times as many chips Company joins US, Chinese rivals in making 300-mm silicon carbide substrates

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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