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Funding & deals · 71 stories, +30 vs last week

Funding & deals: 71 stories in seven days, +30 on the week before.

Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model The Decoder

LabsHill-Climbing Agent Quality with Agents CLI Evaluation Google Developers Blog

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VS Code UpdatesToolsVisual Studio Code 1.146 (Insiders) Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.146 (Insiders) Read the full article

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.NET BlogLanguagesModernize your .NET apps for Windows Arm64 with GitHub Copilot Arm64 offers the potential for lower compute costs and more efficient infrastructure. But what would it take to get your existing .NET application running on it?

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The Information

The InformationValleyAnthropic’s R&D Speed May Have Doubled Due to AI, Researchers Find AI use within Anthropic may have doubled the company’s pace of AI development, a new report from AI research nonprofit METR says.

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SequoiaValleyPartnering with Edelbyte: Data Infrastructure That Keeps Up With AI's Curiosity AI agents will ask far more questions of a company's data than people ever did. Edelbyte is building the data platform that can answer all of them, fast and at a price that makes sense.

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The DecoderBaidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base with 280 billion parameters as an open-source foundation model Baidu releases ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280-billion-parameter MoE model pre-trained on 33.5 trillion tokens, shipped deliberately without fine-tuning, so developers can take it wherever they want.

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubNVIDIA/auto-ontology

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubmax-sixty/worktrunk

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubmattpocock/skills

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubNutlope/hallmark

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubpingdotgg/t3code

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubpbakaus/impeccable

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Google Developers BlogLabsCost per task: Using cheap classifiers to route across Gemini models and thinking levels Per-token API prices keep falling, yet engineering bills for autonomous coding agents keep climbing....

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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.

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