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Funding & deals · 85 stories, +67 vs last week

Funding & deals: 85 stories in seven days, +67 on the week before.

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The InformationValleyMeta and Microsoft Work to Wean Staff Off Anthropic’s Claude Meta Platforms and Microsoft , two of Anthropic ’s biggest corporate customers, are working to cut their employees’ use of Claude, a challenge for the AI firm’s efforts to sustain its explosive…

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SemiEngineeringSiliconBackside Clock Meshes Cut Skew and Power in 2nm Nanosheets (UCSC) Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz published a technical paper titled “Design Space Exploration of Backside Clock Meshes for 2 nm GAAFET BSPDN Technology.” Abstract Excerpt…

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanJapan's TEPCO to tap AI to speed nuclear restarts System seen slashing paperwork by 80%, easing specialist shortages at power company

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanQualcomm to pay Huawei for first time in 5G, AI patent breakthrough Mobile chipmakers' licensing deal will need U.S. regulatory approval

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanPanasonic to make humanoid robots, leveraging its battery business Company aims to start production by 2029; machines to work in plants, warehouses

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Google Developers BlogLabsAccelerating Spatio-Temporal Attention for Video Diffusion on TPUs To address the quadratic latency bottleneck of self-attention in high-resolution video diffusion models, developers implemented Sparse VideoGen (SVG) to dynamically route attention heads to highly…

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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.

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