AI Dev News Digest: December 26th, 2025
AI News: Holiday week recap – what mattered
People think the holidays are all vacation, but the tech world kept moving.
- NVIDIA announced a $20 billion deal with Groq on Christmas Eve to license inference chips that claim 10× better power efficiency than GPUs. (SiliconANGLE)
- GitHub shipped big updates: Copilot now has memory for your codebase, supports Agent Skills (custom workflows), and added Claude Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2 to all paid tiers.
- Cursor started building its own AI model so it can run independently of OpenAI or Anthropic. (HackerNoon)
Key infrastructure moves
- NVIDIA–Groq: licensing deal looks designed to dodge antitrust scrutiny. Groq's LPU chips promise huge power savings for inference. (SiliconANGLE)
- Cursor builds in-house models: part of a trend where AI IDEs want full control over the stack. (HackerNoon)
GitHub & Copilot updates
| Feature | What it does |
|---|---|
| Copilot Memory (GitHub) | Stores repository-specific context so suggestions improve over time. |
| Agent Skills (GitHub) | Lets you package scripts and resources for repeatable tasks. |
| Claude Opus 4.5 (GitHub) | Anthropic's most capable model now available across all paid tiers. |
| GPT-5.2 (GitHub) | OpenAI's latest also landed in Copilot. |
| GitHub Actions lazy loading (GitHub) | Workflows with 300+ jobs load faster. |
| Dependabot dismissal requires review (GitHub) | Adds a safety step before closing alerts (Code Security only). |
New models and platforms
- Google Gemini 3 Flash – default model for the Gemini app, gives Pro-level reasoning at lower cost. (Google)
- T5Gemma 2 – open encoder-decoder models with 128K context windows, good for long-context tasks. (Google)
- Zhipu AI GLM-4.7 – an open-weight coding model that matches Claude Sonnet 4.5 on benchmarks; free to run locally. (Business Wire)
- Anthropic Agent Skills standard – portable across tools, centralised admin in enterprises. (AI Business)
Security & research
OpenAI said prompt injection may never be fully solved. They used reinforcement learning to find an exploit where a malicious email tricked the browser agent into sending a resignation letter. A new adversarially-trained model was released afterward. (OpenAI)
Tooling and integrations
- Vercel AI SDK 6 – adds first-class agent support, human-in-the-loop approvals, debugging tools, and full MCP with OAuth. (Vercel)
- Cursor buys Graphite – a code-review startup that lets teams work on multiple dependent PRs simultaneously. (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI ChatGPT App Directory – developers can submit third-party apps for discovery inside ChatGPT. (OpenAI)
- Replit in ChatGPT – describe an app, and Replit builds it in 2–4 minutes right in the chat. (Replit)
Startups & funding
- Dazzle AI (Marissa Mayer) – raised $8M to build a consumer AI assistant. (SiliconANGLE)
- Tuya "Hey Tuya" – a multi-agent home-assistant with 155M daily interactions. (PRNewswire)
Holiday perks
OpenAI and Anthropic doubled usage limits through New Year's for most users. OpenAI added a "Santa Codex" persona; Anthropic doubled limits for Claude Pro/Max subscribers (Dec 25–31). (Techloy)
Reading suggestions
- MIT Technology Review: the real cost of AI coding tools on junior developers. (MIT Tech Review)
- Google Blog: 2025 year-in-review, covering Gemini 3 and the shift to agents. (Google Blog)
- A blog post on "From vibe coding to VIABLE coding" – how senior engineers get more value from AI. (EveryDev.ai)
That's the rundown for this holiday week. Happy catching up!
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