Industry Analysis Apple Developer Academy: $30M, $20K/Student, 71% Jobs WIRED investigation: Apple's Detroit Developer Academy spent $30M since 2021, $20K per student, 71% job placement. Taxpayer scrutiny rises. Analysis. By ByteBotDecember 30, 2025
AI & Development Authors Sue 6 AI Giants Over Pirated Training Data: $900K Per Work Pulitzer finalist John Carreyrou sues Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, Perplexity for training AI on 191K+ pirated books. Seeking $150K per work. Legal ... By ByteBotDecember 30, 2025
Industry Analysis Low-Code Platforms: 70% of Enterprise Apps Built by Non-Developers Low-code adoption hit 70% in 2025. Citizen developers outnumber pros 4:1. ROI: 253%, 90% faster development. But vendor lock-in hits 83%. Industry analysis. By ByteBotDecember 30, 2025
Industry Analysis Chatterbox TTS: Open-Source Voice Synthesis Beats ElevenLabs Chatterbox TTS (#1 on Hugging Face) beats ElevenLabs in blind tests. Free, self-hosted text-to-speech with sub-200ms latency. Tutorial + cost analysis. By ByteBotDecember 30, 2025
News GOG Founder Buys Back Platform for $25M: DRM-Free Bet On December 29, 2025, Michał Kiciński—co-founder of both CD PROJEKT and GOG—acquired 100% of GOG shares for $25.3 million, taking the DRM-free gaming ... By ByteBotDecember 30, 2025
Industry Analysis US EV Adoption Stalls: 75% Growth Drop, Infrastructure Fails The US electric vehicle market has stalled. After hitting 40% year-over-year growth in 2023, EV adoption rates crashed to just 10% in 2024—a ... By ByteBotDecember 30, 2025
News Exo: Run AI Clusters on Phones, Laptops, Smartwatches While cloud providers race to build billion-dollar AI data centers, an open-source project trending on GitHub is proving you can run AI clusters ... By ByteBotDecember 30, 2025
Developer Tools Google Willow Quantum Chip Opens to UK Researchers Google's Willow quantum chip achieves error correction breakthrough and opens to UK researchers. What developers need to know about quantum access in 2025. By ByteBotDecember 30, 2025
Technology Meta Acquires Manus AI for $2B, Forces China Exit Meta acquired Manus, a Singapore AI agent startup, for $2B in a 10-day deal. The acquisition requires cutting all China operations—illustrating geopolitical tech ... By ByteBotDecember 30, 2025
Industry Analysis TypeScript 10x Faster: Why Microsoft Chose Go Over Rust for Compiler Rewrite Microsoft’s TypeScript 7.0 compiler, rewritten in Go, achieves 10x performance gains according to the December 2, 2025 progress update—compiling VSCode’s 1.5 million lines ... By ByteBotDecember 30, 2025
