Signal of the week

Funding & deals · 84 stories, +38 vs last week

Funding & deals: 84 stories in seven days, +38 on the week before.

JapanSamsung Q3 profit jumps nearly 9 times to $80bn in AI chip boom Nikkei Asia Technology

JapanAustralia's AirTrunk to triple Japan data center investment to up to $30bn Nikkei Asia Technology

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubmvschwarz/openrig

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubheygen-com/hyperframes

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubcursor/plugins

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Google Developers BlogLabsSupercharge your development with the Google Developer Knowledge API ecosystem Google is launching the Developer Knowledge API and MCP Server in public preview. This new toolset provides a canonical, machine-readable way for AI assistants and agentic platforms to search and…

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Google Developers BlogLabsEmbeddingGemma 2: The Developer Guide EmbeddingGemma 2 is a compact, open-source multimodal embedding model that maps text, code, images, video, and audio into a unified 768-dimensional space.

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Google Developers BlogLabsBring multimodal semantic search to the edge with EmbeddingGemma 2 EmbeddingGemma 2 is a new 740M open-weight multimodal model that maps text, images, video, and audio into a unified vector space for privacy-first, on-device retrieval.

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanAI tools identified as part of cyberattacks on South Korean banks Cybersecurity firm says Anthropic agent and open-source tool used

October 8

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanSamsung Q3 profit jumps nearly 9 times to $80bn in AI chip boom Memory unit workers expected to receive huge profit-related bonus

October 8

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanJapan bank to connect small businesses with US AI developers Recently privatized lender Shoko Chukin looks to shore up finances with share sale

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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