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Funding & deals · 79 stories, +71 vs last week

Funding & deals: 79 stories in seven days, +71 on the week before.

AsiaSoftBank completes final $10b OpenAI investment Tech in Asia

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

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ModalToolsModal Clusters are generally available Multi-node GPU clusters with RDMA, gang scheduled from Modal's shared capacity pool and billed by the second, behind a single decorator.

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Bloomberg TechnologyValleyOpenAI Accuses Moonshot of Mass AI Data Extraction OpenAI accused Moonshot AI of being responsible for a wide-scale effort to extract data from its GPT artificial intelligence systems.

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubNVIDIA/OpenShell

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubdebpalash/VoiceStudio

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubmvschwarz/openrig

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubpaperclipai/paperclip

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubvectorize-io/hindsight

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubanthropics/financial-services

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llama.cpp releasesToolsb11317 llama-bench : fix verbosity filter to show GGML_LOG_ERROR ( #28229 ) bench : fix verbosity filter to show GGML_LOG_ERROR ( #28107 ) bench: remove dead variables Website: https://llama.app…

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Axios TechnologyValleyTrump, CEOs try to shed AI's toxic branding The great AI rebranding is on, led by President Trump and tech titans like Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who are embracing an alternative term: "Superintelligence," or SI. Why it matters: Leaders in D.C.

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Tech in AsiaAsiaSoftBank completes final $10b OpenAI investment SoftBank’s cumulative investment in OpenAI now stands at US$64.6 billion, and its ownership interest is about 13%.

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LobstersGitHubExclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics Comments

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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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— Yuki Halvorsen, Tokyo