IT Weekly Review

The week ending December 5, 2025, marked a “Great Pivot.” Google’s Gemini 3 and AWS’s agentic tools challenged OpenAI, prompting a “Code Red”. Yet, innovation clashed with fragility as the “React2Shell” vulnerability and Salesforce breaches exposed critical risks. Meanwhile, Meta secured a historic antitrust victory, reshaping the regulatory landscape.

The week ending November 28, 2025, ushered in the “Agentic Era”. Google released Gemini 3 and the Antigravity IDE, which shifted software development from “writing” to “orchestrating”. Simultaneously, Amazon eliminated nearly 14,000 corporate roles. This displacement confirmed the economic reality of AI leverage, particularly impacting junior developer tasks.

The IT industry experienced extreme divergence. Meta announced a $600 billion investment in U.S. infrastructure for “superintelligence”. However, Anthropic revealed that the Chinese actor GTG-1002 weaponised AI tools for autonomous espionage, performing up to 90% of tactical operations independently.

The week ending November 14, 2025, confirmed the arrival of “agentic AI” as a central, disruptive force. Tech giants commercialised autonomous systems with strategic shifts, like Microsoft’s “per-agent” model. However, Anthropic revealed the dark side: the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign. The challenge is now deployment, control, and securing this autonomous workforce.

The AI hype train hit the brakes as $\$1$ trillion was wiped from US tech companies. OpenAI’s controversy revealed a potential $\$1.4$ trillion infrastructure commitment, suggesting unsustainable costs. Simultaneously, mass layoffs at Amazon and Salesforce confirmed the new, harsh narrative of AI-driven job “replacement”.

The final week of October 2025 showcased a profound paradox. AI spending fueled record corporate valuations and product innovation. However, the colossal costs triggered deep anxiety on Wall Street, leading to punishing scepticism. Simultaneously, the proliferation of AI tools gave rise to “vibe hacking,” a new and more dangerous class of cyber threats.