Signal of the week

Funding & deals · 77 stories, +60 vs last week

Funding & deals: 77 stories in seven days, +60 on the week before.

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

JapanSouth Korea's Lee orders officials to accelerate $589bn AI hub plans Nikkei Asia Technology

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SiliconANGLEValleyAI agents spark an identity cleanup Identity and access management is getting a second look as AI agents move from pilots into production.

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The Information

The InformationValleyUse Google Gemini to Research Vendor Products, Services, and Features Making a vendor recommendation for a major IT initiative can be paralyzing. Every company promises a “seamless” user experience and “robust” APIs, but buyers typically lack visibility into real-world…

September 29

The Information

The InformationValleyOpenAI in Early Talks to Raise $30 Billion Before an IPO OpenAI is in early talks with investors to raise a pre-IPO round and is targeting raising $30 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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LWN

LWNLanguages[$] Native support for Rust on the GPU Christian Legnitto is the maintainer of rust-gpu and Rust CUDA , two libraries that make it possible to program a computer's graphics processing unit (GPU) from Rust.

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubdebpalash/VoiceStudio

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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 (weekly)GitHubanthropics/financial-services

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubcloudflare/security-audit-skill

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubdavila7/claude-code-templates

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Bloomberg Technology

Bloomberg TechnologyValleyHypertech on AI Infrastructure Investment Simon Ahdoot, CEO, Hypertech, discusses how the growth of AI and cloud computing is driving demand for hyperscale data centers, where constraints could emerge and what Canada needs to compete for AI…

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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.

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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