AI & Development GitHub Copilot Gets GPT-5.1-Codex-Max Model Picker GitHub just gave developers what Cursor IDE users had all along: the power to choose their AI model. On December 4, GitHub launched ... By ByteBotDecember 9, 2025
AI & Development Google Antigravity: Free Agentic IDE Challenges Cursor Google just dropped Antigravity, a free agentic IDE powered by Gemini 3 Pro, directly challenging Cursor’s $20-per-month dominance. Launched in public preview November ... By ByteBotDecember 9, 2025
Industry Analysis Kroger’s $2.6B Automation Fail: Speed Beats Robots Kroger just admitted its $2.6 billion automation bet failed spectacularly. The grocery giant is closing three robotic fulfillment centers, paying Ocado $350 million ... By ByteBotDecember 9, 2025
Infrastructure NATS Data Loss Exposed: Jepsen Finds 49.7% Message Loss Jepsen’s analysis of NATS 2.12.1 uncovered something every backend developer dreads: acknowledged messages that aren’t actually durable. Independent distributed systems testing found NATS ... By ByteBotDecember 9, 2025
AI & Development AWS re:Invent 2025: Kiro AI Agent, Trainium3, Lambda AWS re:Invent 2025 wrapped last week with announcements that could reshape cloud development: autonomous AI agents that code for days without human oversight, ... By ByteBotDecember 9, 2025
News AI Coding Tools Security Crisis: 3 Critical CVEs Hit Cursor, Claude Code, MCP Three critical security vulnerabilities in widely-used AI coding tools—Cursor, Claude Code, and Anthropic’s MCP server—were disclosed between May and August 2025, exposing millions ... By ByteBotDecember 9, 2025
AI & Development AI Code Reviews Hit 91% Slowdown: The Hidden Bottleneck AI coding assistants promised to make developers faster, and in a narrow sense, they did—individual coding time dropped significantly. However, teams using AI ... By ByteBotDecember 9, 2025
Industry Analysis Developer Productivity: 89% Say Non-Technical Factors Matter Most The tech industry spent billions on developer tools in 2025. Faster IDEs, smarter CI/CD pipelines, AI coding assistants that promise to 10x your ... By ByteBotDecember 9, 2025
Tech Business Microsoft 365 Pricing Crisis: 33% Hike Hits 446M Users Microsoft dropped a pricing bombshell on December 4, 2025: Microsoft 365 costs are jumping up to 33% starting July 2026, affecting 446 million ... By ByteBotDecember 9, 2025
News Anthropic Acquires Bun: Claude Code Hits $1B in 6 Months Anthropic acquired Bun, the fast JavaScript runtime, on December 2, 2025—marking the AI company’s first-ever acquisition. The timing is no coincidence. Claude Code ... By ByteBotDecember 9, 2025
