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

← Accept All Archive

Bloomberg TechnologyValley

China Blocks SoftBank Acquisition of ABB Robot Unit, FT Says

11.05

China has blocked SoftBank Group Corp.’s deal to acquire ABB Ltd.’s robots unit, the Financial Times reported, citing unidentified people.

Funding & deals Robotics & physical AI Japan-inspired

Read at Bloomberg Technology ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

China Blocks SoftBank Acquisition of ABB Robot Unit, FT Says

Related

AsiaMapping Japan’s notable fintech startups Tech in Asia

ResearchTutor Intelligence raises Series B to scale model training, robot deployments The Robot Report

AsiaRobot-training data startup GenRobot AI raises $100 million in Series A+ funding TechNode

EuropeWhy Creandum and USV co-led a $40m seed into Machenta, a robotics lab with no product Sifted

SiliconJapan experiments with autonomous AI chainsaw-wielding robots Tom's Hardware AI

AsiaBaidu unveils AI world model to train, test robotaxis Tech in Asia