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Agents & vibe coding · 102 stories, +81 vs last week

Agents & vibe coding: 102 stories in seven days, +81 on the week before.

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MediaTek says new AI phone chip reduces memory use amid supply crunch

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanMediaTek says new AI phone chip reduces memory use amid supply crunch Latest premium smartphone chipset Dimensity 9060 Pro uses same TSMC tech in iPhone Duo

September 15
SWIFT's blockchain ledger enters tests with Citi, MUFG for 24-hour cross-border payments

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanSWIFT's blockchain ledger enters tests with Citi, MUFG for 24-hour cross-border payments International network's platform seeks faster transfers and smaller fees

September 15
FamilyMart hopes to quickly tap into trends with AI-developed sweets

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanFamilyMart hopes to quickly tap into trends with AI-developed sweets Japan convenience store operator sees technology cutting some work by 20%

September 15
JustVugg/colibri

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September 15
alibaba/open-code-review

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September 15
multimodal-art-projection/YuE

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September 15
ayghri/i-have-adhd

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September 15
bilawalsidhu/gods-eye-view

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September 15
affaan-m/ECC

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September 15
Autonomous LLM post-training with Tunix on TPUs

Google Developers BlogLabsAutonomous LLM post-training with Tunix on TPUs Imagine going to sleep after writing a single Markdown specification and waking up to find that an A...

September 15
The Anatomy of Harness Engineering: How to Evaluate, Iterate, and Guard AI Coding Agents

Google Developers BlogLabsThe Anatomy of Harness Engineering: How to Evaluate, Iterate, and Guard AI Coding Agents While end-to-end benchmarks like SWE-bench provide broad performance scores for AI agents, they are often expensive, slow, and lack the root-cause diagnostics needed to explain exactly where an agent's logic broke down.

September 15
Announcing ADK for Kotlin 1.0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents in Kotlin, Android, and Beyond

Google Developers BlogLabsAnnouncing ADK for Kotlin 1.0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents in Kotlin, Android, and Beyond Google has officially released version 1.0 of the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin, achieving full feature parity with the Python and Java ADK cores to enable idiomatic, multi-agent AI development. Built on Kotlin

September 15