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Funding & deals · 78 stories, +30 vs last week

Funding & deals: 78 stories in seven days, +30 on the week before.

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

JapanChina blocks SoftBank's $5.4bn deal for ABB robotics division Nikkei Asia Technology

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Stack Overflow BlogGitHubWelcome to life in the chip age Ryan sits down with Rakesh Kumar, professor of computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about the astounding complexity of manufacturing modern semiconductors, the massive…

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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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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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Google Developers BlogLabsDevFest is back! DevFest 2026 runs from October 1 to December 31, bringing together nearly a million developers across more than 800 global events centered on the agentic AI era.

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Google Developers BlogLabsBuild Generative UI Apps with A2UI & CopilotKit Agents See Google A2Ui in action! Learn how to natively render agentic UIs across Langchain, AWS Strands, Microsoft agents, and Google ADK using CopilotKit SDKs for A2UI.

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanEditor's Choice: US anti-data center sentiment spreads, hitting Asian markets Akito Tanaka shares his weekly reflections and recommendations

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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 two hundred 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