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Funding & deals · 76 stories, +62 vs last week

Funding & deals: 76 stories in seven days, +62 on the week before.

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanIndonesia free university plan to attract AI risks more fiscal strain Push to lessen burden of education clashes with harsh budgeting realities

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanTokio Marine first Japan nonlife insurer to cover AI-enabled robots Premiums set to be 20% higher than regular industrial counterparts

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Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanMore PHP-scale dangers lurk on the internet, CloudFlare CEO says Matthew Prince calls for websites to be patched and checked for intrusions immediately

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubcloudflare/security-audit-skill

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubNVIDIA/OpenShell

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GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubaws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

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

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubruvnet/ruflo

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GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubstablyai/orca

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Google Developers BlogLabsStreaming comes to API Gateway: real-time and AI-ready APIs, without changing your spec API Gateway now supports real-time streaming—including Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, gRPC, and chunked transfer encoding—in Public Preview without requiring changes to your existing API…

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Google Developers BlogLabsArchitecting Governed, Self-Evolving AI Agents on Google Cloud Learn how Project Chrysalis combines Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Agent Development Kit (ADK), BigQuery, and a four-gate defense-in-depth security stack (Model Armor, Cloud KMS…

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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