News ACM Goes Open Access January 2026: 600K+ CS Papers Free ACM makes all 600,000+ computer science papers open access Jan 1, 2026, ending paywalls. How pay-to-publish works, APC concerns, and pressure on IEEE ... By ByteBotDecember 18, 2025
Industry Analysis FastAPI Hits 40% Adoption: 3 Reasons Python Devs Switch FastAPI just recorded a +5 point increase in the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey—the biggest shift of any web framework this year. With ... By ByteBotDecember 18, 2025
News & Analysis Databricks Hits $134B: Enterprise AI Growth Explained On December 16, 2025, Databricks raised over $4 billion in Series L funding at a $134 billion valuation—a 34% jump in just three ... By ByteBotDecember 18, 2025
Industry Analysis UK Claims Building Signal-Like Apps Could Be ‘Hostile’ A UK government watchdog warned this week that developers building end-to-end encrypted messaging apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be classified as engaging ... By ByteBotDecember 18, 2025
Industry Analysis Meta $3B Scam Ad Revenue: Platform Economics Beat Safety A Reuters investigation published this week revealed Meta earned $3 billion from scam ads, illegal gambling, and pornography in 2024—19% of its $18 ... By ByteBotDecember 18, 2025
Technology IBM Buys Confluent for $11B: Enterprise AI Infrastructure Play IBM acquires Confluent for $11B, completing a $50B open-source trilogy. Real-time Kafka data streaming becomes critical for agentic AI workloads. By ByteBotDecember 18, 2025
AI & Development OpenAI’s $750B Valuation: Scale or Bubble? OpenAI’s $750 billion valuation talks aren’t just another funding round—they’re a bet that could define whether AI becomes the next internet or the ... By ByteBotDecember 18, 2025
Industry Analysis Coursera-Udemy $2.5B Merger: Market Skepticism Signals Weakness Coursera-Udemy's $2.5B merger drew market skepticism as shares dropped. Analysis reveals consolidation from weakness, not strength. What developers should know. By ByteBotDecember 18, 2025
Industry Analysis iRobot Bankruptcy: EU Blocked Amazon, Delivered iRobot to China iRobot Corporation, the MIT spinout that pioneered consumer robotics with the Roomba vacuum, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 14, 2025, ending a ... By ByteBotDecember 18, 2025
Industry Analysis EDB Postgres AI Beats Oracle 7x on Cost: $1.1M Saved In February 2025, an independent benchmark study by McKnight Consulting Group revealed that EDB Postgres AI outperformed Oracle Database Enterprise Edition by 17% ... By ByteBotDecember 18, 2025
