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Chips & compute · 141 stories, +69 vs last week

Chips & compute: 141 stories in seven days, +69 on the week before.

JapanTaiwan's first-ever chip workers strike hits Micron plant Nikkei Asia Technology

JapanMalaysia's SkyeChip joins SoftBank-backed AI memory project in Japan Nikkei Asia Technology

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Cohere Blog

Cohere BlogLabsInside Cohere Model Vault: Building a verifiable confidential AI inference

10.22

Cohere Blog

Cohere BlogLabsIntroducing Confidential Computing on Cohere Model Vault

10.22

xAI News

xAI NewsLabsHow SpaceXSI is using Grok Bot to scale customer support

10.22

AI BusinessAnthropic rolls out Claude Duet, but enterprises aren’t ready The generative AI vendor released the app with stringent security guardrails for using it in professional and small business settings.

10.22

The Verge AIValleySomeone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the…

10.22

GitHub BlogGitHubHow bug bounty sharpens one researcher’s security skills As Cybersecurity Awareness Month continues, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @r31n, diving into their research approach, favorite bug classes, and advice for aspiring hackers.

10.22

VS Code UpdatesToolsVisual Studio Code 1.144 (Insiders) Learn what is new in Visual Studio Code 1.144 (Insiders) Read the full article

10.22

SiftedEuropeMeet Aaron Rosenberg: The man DeepMind researchers call before they quit On this episode of the Sifted Podcast, Radical Ventures partner Aaron Rosenberg talks DeepMind, neolabs and non-compete reforms.

10.22

TechCrunch AIValleyChinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.

10.22

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanTaiwan's first-ever chip workers strike hits Micron plant Dispute is over pay and bonuses not reflecting AI memory profits

10.22

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanMalaysia's SkyeChip joins SoftBank-backed AI memory project in Japan Semiconductor designer pushes into advanced tech as it expands beyond US and China

10.22

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanAI-detected PHP security flaws disrupt websites, spark warnings across Asia Airlines and banks take precautionary action as governments urge updates

10.22

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