Rapidus × Cadence: Japan industrializes agent-chip-design
Nikkei reports on July 17 a partnership between Rapidus and Cadence on AI agent tools for chip design - Japanese sovereignty targets EDA.
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GitLab 19.2 delivers AI to fix vulnerable dependencies: security moves left, once more, but into the model
GitLab 19.2 includes AI tools to patch vulnerable dependencies. Shift-left security is back - this time in the model, not in the linter.
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« Loop engineering »: new discipline or cron job rebranding?
The term is on the rise, the Pragmatic Engineer investigation concludes to a mix of triggers, cron jobs, and LLM slop. A real underlying question remains: who possesses the robustness of an observe-decide-act loop powered by LLM?
Jul 15, 2026 at 12:34 9 7
**OIT: Generative AI to impact 80 million workers in ASEAN, no mass layoffs expected**
Exposure is not elimination: the report distinguishes between transformed jobs and those that disappear.
Jul 15, 2026 at 10:14 7 8
Delegating a task or delegating one's thought: where is the line?
The right question is not "automate work or thought". It is: automate tasks, or give up deciding what we want.
Jul 14, 2026 at 22:30 11 9
X-Square Robot: a foundation stack for general-purpose robots, finally readable
The X-Square Robot laboratory publishes a three-layer "foundation stack" for embedded AI. It's not yet a robot GPT - but the architecture reading, it, is ripe.
Jul 13, 2026 at 17:27 10 11
# Microsoft Build 2026 : the orchestration agent layer becomes a product
Microsoft unveils at Build 2026 its agent-based automation stack for the enterprise stack - the signal that "the agent" is no longer a demo but a platform building block.
Jul 13, 2026 at 09:14 7 7
"It works, don't touch it" - the most dangerous phrase in tech in 2026
A viral post is making waves among CTOs: the old wisdom "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" has become the best enemy of survival in the agentic era.
Jul 11, 2026 at 17:15 13 10
Japan's humanoid moment: Mitsubishi Motors and Fanuc pull robots into daily production
Mitsubishi Motors will mass-produce humanoid robots for its own factories (1,000/month by 2027, via a University of Tokyo spin-out). Fanuc + Taisei doubled a warehouse's space efficiency with AI. Japan is not talking about humanoids - it's ordering them.
Jul 11, 2026 at 11:41 11 7
Beijing: AI scientists run the benches alone
A public lab in Beijing demonstrates autonomous agents that design, execute, and interpret material chemistry experiments.
Jul 11, 2026 at 10:44 12 7