
The Byte Highlight
A tech newsletter by Gor Technologies
May 2025
Noteworthy News
Instagram launches Edits
Instagram has launched Edits, a video editing app that’s intended to rival the TikTok-linked equivalent CapCut.
Adobe Unleashes Next-Gen Firefly AI
The latest release of Firefly unifies AI-powered tools for image, video, audio, and vector generation in a single platform.
Perplexity partners with Motorola
Perplexity will be pre-installed on new Motorola smartphones worldwide with features like voice control, smart reminders, and direct integration with Moto AI, including 3 months of Pro access.
Pinterest launches new tools to fight AI slop
After an increasing volume of complaints, Pinterest announced a plan to begin labeling AI-generated and AI-modified images.
China's AI startup releases new model, claims to be cheaper than DeepSeek.
Startup Z.ai (formerly Zhipu) launched GLM-4.5, claiming it costs less to operate than DeepSeek due to its smaller size and ability to decompose tasks into sub-goals
Trending In Tech
Visa Just Opened Access to Its Product Design System
Visa released its Visa Design System, a robust, production-ready UX toolkit built on modern frameworks (React, Angular, and Flutter) to help designers and developers build digital payment experiences globally.
Logitech’s MX Creative Console now supports Figma and Adobe Lightroom
You can straighten images in Lightroom with a twist of its dial, and quickly rate images using customizable LCD buttons.
React Labs: View Transitions, Activity, and more
View Transitions and Activity are now ready for testing in react@experimental.
Microsoft now pays up to $30,000 for some AI vulnerabilities
Microsoft announced an increase in bug bounty payouts to $30,000 for AI vulnerabilities found in Dynamics 365 and Power Platform services and products.
Adobe adds new AI-powered image-editing features to Photoshop
The company said today that it is rolling out an image-upscaling feature, an object blending, and an upgraded object remover to Photoshop.
Expert Opinion
The Urgency of Interpretability in AI
Dario Amodei argues that as AI models rapidly grow more powerful, achieving deep understanding their internal workings is essential to mitigate risks, ensure safe deployment.
Good vs Great Animations
a collection of practical tips to help go from good to great animations.
Concurrent Optimistic Updates in React Query
ReactJs, React Query, Mutations, TypeScript, JavaScript
Avoiding Skill Atrophy in the Age of AI
How to use AI coding assistants without letting your hard-earned engineering skills wither away.
Don’t Let Technical Debt Ruin Your Project
Although it’s invisible, technical debt can be expensive. The longer you leave it, the more it’s costing you behind the scenes, AND the more expensive it is to fix.
How Stuff Works
Deploying agents as real-time APIs 101: Token-by-token answers via FastAPI/WebSockets
A free open source PhiloAgents course on building gaming simulation agents that transform NPCs into human-like characters in an interactive game environment.
How Cursor Serves Billions of AI Code Completions Every Day
Cursor's backend is designed for immense scale, handling over 1 million transactions per second at peak and serving billions of AI code completions daily.
Building a cloud security roadmap: Tools by layer and when you need them
Understanding the key security tools at each layer of the cloud and what matters most for your organization’s maturity
Bookmarkable by Design: URL-Driven State in HTMX
Using the URL instead of complex state libraries as single source of truth for filters, sorting, and pagination in HTMX applications
Adding .md URLs for Raw Markdown Content in Next.js
How to add .md URLs to your Next.js blog to serve raw markdown content, inspired by Vercel's docs.
Useful Links
Achieve real-time interaction with Google's Live API
The Live API equips developers with the essential tools to craft applications and intelligent agents capable of processing streaming audio, video, and text with incredibly low latency.
Firecrawl: Empowering AI apps with clean data from any website
Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape, crawl and extract with a single API.
Daily Bench - Model Performance Dashboard
The open-source dashboard monitors model performance across providers like Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI to detect quality regressions that can occur between official releases.