Signal of the week

Robotics & physical AI · 52 stories, +24 vs last week

Robotics & physical AI: 52 stories in seven days, +24 on the week before.

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

ValleyPhysicl raises $10M to make the digital world real enough for robots TechCrunch AI

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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 (weekly)GitHubthedotmack/claude-mem

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubNutlope/hallmark

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubpingdotgg/t3code

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The DecoderThinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small claims top spot among western open-weight models Thinking Machines, the startup from former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is releasing Inkling 2 Small, a mixture-of-experts model with 594 billion parameters.

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Lobsters

LobstersGitHubMaking musl and proprietary NVIDIA drivers work together Comments

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanTaiwan, South Korea, Japan stock markets hit hard by AI sell-off Worries over data center curbs accelerate skid in Asian markets

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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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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanAsia's AI supply chain and US data centers set to weather 'blue wave' Democrats' midterm mandate may check but not stop infrastructure buildout: analysts

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubNVIDIA/auto-ontology

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubmattpocock/skills

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubgarrytan/gstack

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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