Tech Brew: What's happening in tech - Nov 13th, 2026

GitHub is handling a staggering volume of commits

October 28th, 2026

GitHub reported roughly 7.4 billion commits per month, up from 2.9 billion in August. AI-assisted development may be changing not only how code is written but the scale of infrastructure needed to host and process it.
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Discussion Question: Does AI-generated code create a new kind of technical debt?
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Anthropic’s IPO paperwork puts a price on the AI boom

November 2nd, 2026

Anthropic reported $17 billion in third-quarter revenue, alongside rising compute costs and an operating loss. Model capability is one contest; making the economics work at scale is another.
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​Discussion Question: How might public-market pressure change an AI company’s approach to safety, pricing, and growth?
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AI found hundreds of paths to root in Linux

November 4th-5th, 2026

OpenAI says its research pipeline reproduced kernel vulnerabilities and generated exploit proofs and candidate fixes for 948 local privilege-escalation issues. The interesting question is whether defenders can review and ship fixes as quickly as AI can find bugs.
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​Discussion Question: With AI models becoming increasingly better at finding vulnerabilities, how can legacy systems adapt and keep up?
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Fireworks AI breaches expose downstream customer data

November 12th-13th, 2026

breaches at AI inference provider Fireworks affected Notion AI chat transcripts and thousands of Uber drivers’ personal records. Notion said fewer than 1% of its workspaces may have been affected and disconnected from Fireworks.
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Discussion Question: Do we know what data our AI providers and their subprocessors retain across inference, evaluation, logging, and training workflows?
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Major Microsoft 365 outage affects companies

November 12th-13th, 2026

An Exchange Online disruption affected email access and spread into dependent features in Teams, Copilot, SharePoint, and security tooling. Microsoft reported that it had fixed the underlying issue and was restoring service, with the final root cause being a process on their servers responsible for establishing secure connections becoming overwhelmed, causing the servers to stop processing requests.
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​Discussion Question: Are we too reliant on large cloud providers, and how can we adapt in situations where outages arise?