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MCP, skills & tools · 43 stories, +19 vs last week

MCP, skills & tools: 43 stories in seven days, +19 on the week before.

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SiftedEuropeLondon Demo Day 2026: startups to watch

September 21

SiftedEuropeNew solo GP firm backing early-stage AI and deeptech startups hits first close of maiden fund Project Ventures, founded by Shahryar Barati, will back pre-seed and seed startups with ties to Imperial College London.

September 21

SiftedEuropeEurope’s advantage: moving AI from the screen to the real world The continent has already built some highly promising startups in vertical AI.

September 21

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanUS says China talks yield progress on tariff carve-outs, AI dialogue Bessent calls meeting to lay groundwork for Trump-Xi summit 'very successful'

September 21

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanIn Focus: Elder care, the warmth of robots, the wisdom of people Tracking Japan's dementia-care front lines, from AI and robotics to independence-focused care

September 21

Nikkei Asia TechnologyJapanChina's Unitree Robotics stock falls by half in month after listing As IPO frenzy settles down, investors assess future of humanoids

September 21

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

September 21

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubtrycua/cua

September 21

GitHub Trending (daily)GitHubaddyosmani/agent-skills

September 21

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubalibaba/open-code-review

September 21

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubaffaan-m/ECC

September 21

GitHub Trending (weekly)GitHubTencent/WeKnora

September 21

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