Signal of the week

Funding & deals · 83 stories, +70 vs last week

Funding & deals: 83 stories in seven days, +70 on the week before.

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Vercel BlogToolsSend feedback from the Vercel MCP Vercel MCP now includes submit_feedback , a tool for sending bug reports, friction reports, and feature requests directly to the Vercel team from your agent or harness.

10.23

Vercel BlogToolsHow Vercel Agent accesses production safely An agent working on production systems needs permission to act. A request like “fix this deployment” doesn’t tell you upfront which actions it will take or what access it will need.

10.23

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

10.23

TechPowerUpSiliconBazzite Linux Gets New Handheld PC Support With ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X20 and Acer Predator Atlas The launch of Valve's Steam Deck ignited a renewed interest in both Linux gaming and handheld x86 gaming PCs, and that push has resulted in accelerated development for projects like Bazzite.

10.23

The DecoderThree-week on-site audit at OpenAI reveals major gaps in AI safety monitoring External auditors from METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks on-site at OpenAI examining the company's internal monitoring system for AI agents and found significant gaps, with up to 25 percent…

10.23

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubphp/php-src

10.23

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubanthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

10.23

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubDietrichGebert/ponytail

10.23

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubanthropics/claude-plugins-official

10.23

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubruvnet/ruflo

10.23

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubandroid/skills

10.23

Google Developers BlogLabsStreaming comes to API Gateway: real-time and AI-ready APIs, without changing your spec API Gateway now supports real-time streaming—including Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, gRPC, and chunked transfer encoding—in Public Preview without requiring changes to your existing API…

10.23

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