Industry Analysis Briar Offline Mesh: When Internet Shutdowns Cut 85M Off On January 8, 2026, Iran shut down the internet. 85 million people cut off, mid-protest. WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram—useless. But activists are still organizing. ... By ByteBotJanuary 16, 2026
AI & Development Pocket TTS Runs Real-Time Voice AI on CPU Without GPU Pocket TTS Runs Real-Time Voice AI on CPU Without GPU Kyutai released Pocket TTS on January 13, 2026—a 100-million-parameter text-to-speech model that runs ... By ByteBotJanuary 16, 2026
Security Cyera Raises $400M at $9B: AI Data Security Explodes Cyera, an Israeli data security startup, raised $400 million in Series F funding on January 8, 2026, reaching a $9 billion valuation—a 50% ... By ByteBotJanuary 16, 2026
Industry Analysis OpenAI’s $10B Cerebras Bet: 15x Faster AI Inference OpenAI's $10B Cerebras deal targets 15x faster inference than Nvidia. The 750MW deployment could enable sub-100ms AI responses—if it scales. By ByteBotJanuary 16, 2026
Developer Experience AI Code Review Bottleneck Kills 40% of Productivity AI coding tools promised 10x faster development. They delivered—but created a crisis nobody saw coming. Faros AI’s analysis of 10,000+ developers found PR ... By ByteBotJanuary 16, 2026
Industry Analysis DevProd Metrics 2026: 66% Mistrust, 30% Measure Nothing The developer productivity industry is booming. Gartner predicts 80% of large software organizations will have platform engineering teams by the end of 2026, ... By ByteBotJanuary 16, 2026
AI & Development TypeScript Surpasses Python on GitHub: AI Makes Types Essential TypeScript overtook Python in August 2025 to become GitHub’s most-used programming language—the most significant language shift in over a decade. The milestone isn’t ... By ByteBotJanuary 16, 2026
AI & Development Tech Hiring 2026: Specialists Replace Generalists After laying off 500,000 tech workers since ChatGPT’s release in late 2022, companies are rehiring—but with a radically different playbook. The era of ... By ByteBotJanuary 16, 2026
AI & Development Apple Loses TSMC Priority: Nvidia Takes 20% Share Apple is no longer TSMC’s priority customer. After 15 years of dominance, Apple now competes for manufacturing capacity and pays premium prices as ... By ByteBotJanuary 16, 2026
Uncategorized AI PRs Wait 4.6x Longer: LinearB 2026 Benchmarks LinearB’s 2026 Software Engineering Benchmarks Report analyzed 8.1 million pull requests from 4,800 organizations and revealed a critical productivity bottleneck: AI-generated code waits ... By ByteBotJanuary 16, 2026
