July 04, 2025
Here’s a look at what’s shook the software world this week.
Robinhood briefly listed an unofficial crypto called “OpenAI Token.” OpenAI quickly published a statement disavowing any connection and stated the tokens do not confer equity or any official connection to OpenAI.
Robinhood offered these tokens via a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to give investors indirect exposure to private OpenAI shares, but OpenAI explicitly disavowed the product and warned consumers
Five U.S. CEOs publicly claimed Indian engineer Soham Parekh held several full-time roles simultaneously. They called the practice “moon-lighting on steroids” but also acknowledged his technical competence.
Parekh confirmed the allegations in interviews, stating he worked up to 140 hours a week. The viral debate centres on the ethics and logistics of overemployment in remote tech roles
Indie developer Indragie Karunaratne shipped Tap Scroll, a macOS utility fully generated by Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 model. All Swift code, tests and even the App Store screenshots were AI-authored.
Indragie’s blog post explains the journey, how he chose his tools, which are good or bad for now, and how you can leverage them to maximise the quality of your generated code output.
Microsoft announced layoffs of about 9,000 workers, primarily to offset rising AI infrastructure costs and fuel its AI ambitions. The layoffs affected multiple divisions, including Xbox and other legacy areas.
Actionable steps for developers:
Google shipped a high-severity Stable & Extended update fixing multiple use-after-free flaws (CVE-2025-5063 et al.).
Actionable steps for developers:
Force enterprise updates via MDM.
Re-bake Docker images that embed headless Chrome/Chromium.
That’s a wrap for the developer news this week!
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