Signal of the week

Funding & deals · 83 stories, +62 vs last week

Funding & deals: 83 stories in seven days, +62 on the week before.

SiliconChip Industry Week In Review SemiEngineering

AsiaJio Platforms IPO Booked 6.76X On Day 3 So Far, QIB Portion Subscribed 14.18X Inc42

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

10.23

Tech in AsiaAsiaDeepSeek, MiniMax get China’s global AI approval: report China’s commerce ministry said most AI technologies would remain exportable.

10.23

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubanthropics/claude-plugins-official

10.23

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubruvnet/ruflo

10.23

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubandroid/skills

10.23

Awesome MCP Servers (commits)ToolsFix entry formatting

10.23

Awesome MCP Servers (commits)ToolsMerge pull request #16563 from bloriner/bloriner-patch-1

10.23

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanEditor's Choice: What really separates Silicon Valley startups from Asia? Akito Tanaka shares his weekly reflections and recommendations

10.23

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanJapan to reorganize defense research around AI, cyber Defense Minister Koizumi says revamp aims to detect threats, speed decisions

10.23

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanAsia's AI data center boom faces 'reality check' from public markets Setbacks in Australian and South Korean IPOs show growing investor concerns

10.23

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubphp/php-src

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubanthropics/knowledge-work-plugins

10.23

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