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Funding & deals · 77 stories, +46 vs last week

Funding & deals: 77 stories in seven days, +46 on the week before.

GitHubSAP acquires TechWolf to feed more context into its HR agents The New Stack

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llama.cpp releasesToolsb11451 opencl: fix OOB read in adreno xmem GEMM ( #30041 ) Website: https://llama.app Attestations: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/attestations/53310534 macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS…

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The DecoderGoogle's new image model Nano Banana 2.1 generates better images for less money Google's new Nano Banana 2.1 image model uses Gemini 3.6 Flash and beats the previous Pro model in some benchmarks at a lower cost.

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404 MediaVoicesHer AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried 'Undue Emotional Weight' A man convicted of manslaughter in Arizona will be resentenced because an AI-generated video of his victim speaking from beyond the grave was ruled to have carried “undue emotional weight” as an…

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanTokyo Electron poised to log record profit on AI momentum: CFO Chip equipment maker looks to boost added value as product testing becomes more rigorous

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanChina's DeepSeek, peers launch 16 AI models in month despite Anthropic warning Beijing shows no signs of slowing push amid calls for pause over safety

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanTaiwan's AUO, Innolux bet on glass as next-gen AI chip material Warp resistance of novel substrate means bigger, more powerful circuit boards

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubtester-army/e2e

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubthedotmack/claude-mem

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubearthtojake/text-to-cad

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubpbakaus/impeccable

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubpaperclipai/paperclip

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubvectorize-io/hindsight

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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