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

MIT Technology ReviewValley

How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom

10.27

Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply.

Research

Read at MIT Technology Review ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom

Related

SiliconChip Industry Technical Paper Roundup: Oct. 27 SemiEngineering

AsiaVolkswagen considers taking Xpeng-developed vehicle architecture to Europe TechNode

Japan自分で作った四セクター宇宙論を、自分で監査した：何が残るか（Paper FP-0） Zenn (AI)

ToolsRun Scale AI’s AgentEnv evals on Vercel Sandbox Vercel Blog

Silicon28-Core Intel Nova Lake-S CPU Shows Promising Performance Boost in Leaked Benchmark TechPowerUp

SiliconTSMC A14 Node to Break Eight Years of SRAM Scaling Stagnation TechPowerUp