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Developer Tools News 25 June 2025 - 1 October 2025

Vercel’s AI Breakthrough: $300M Raise Propels Developer Platform to $9.3B Valuation

Vercel’s AI Breakthrough: $300M Raise Propels Developer Platform to $9.3B Valuation

$300M Series F Round and $9.3B Valuation In late September 2025 Vercel announced a blockbuster Series F funding round that catapults the startup to a $9.3 billion valuation reuters.com bloomberg.com. The $300 million infusion was oversubscribed and co-led by VC firm Accel and Singapore’s GIC (Global Investment Corporation) reuters.com bloomberg.com. Joining the round were heavyweight asset managers and funds — BlackRock, StepStone, Khosla Ventures, Schroders, Adams Street Partners and General Catalyst — alongside earlier backers (Salesforce Ventures, Tiger Global, GV, etc.) bloomberg.com gic.com.sg. Vercel also launched a roughly $300 million secondary tender for employees and early investors, which is slated
1 October 2025
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AI Coding Assistant Showdown: GitHub Copilot Enterprise vs Google Gemini vs Amazon Q Developer Pro

AI Coding Assistant Showdown: GitHub Copilot Enterprise vs Google Gemini vs Amazon Q Developer Pro

GitHub Copilot Enterprise runs on OpenAI Codex and GPT-4, provides real-time code suggestions and can generate entire functions from natural language prompts, with a six‑month enterprise trial showing 94% of developers staying “in the flow” and 88% of Copilot’s suggestions kept in final code. Copilot Workspace is planned to enable multi‑step tasks and autonomous code changes across a codebase. Copilot Enterprise is priced at $39 per user per month, launched as GA in early 2024, includes admin controls and privacy commitments, and does not train on private code unless explicitly opted in. Google Gemini Code Assist uses the Gemini family
14 August 2025
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DevOps, DevSecOps & Developer Tooling – Notable News (June–July 2025)

DevOps, DevSecOps & Developer Tooling – Notable News (June–July 2025)

In June 2025, GitLab released version 18 with AI-native features called GitLab Duo, adding AI-assisted code suggestions, test generation, chat-based help, a Maven virtual registry, modular CI/CD pipelines, and built-in security templates (SOC 2 and ISO 27001). In mid-2025, Atlassian unveiled AI agents named “Rovo” for Jira and Bitbucket to auto-generate tests and code, review PRs, and assist deployments using the Teamwork Graph data layer. In late June 2025, Harness reached GA for Harness AI Test Automation, delivering AI-driven test generation and execution across CI/CD to reduce manual QA bottlenecks. In June 2025, Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Containers Public Beta, enabling
7 July 2025
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Everything You Need to Know About Google Gemini CLI: Features, News, and Expert Insights

Google’s Gemini CLI Just Dropped—Here’s Why This Free, Open‑Source AI Agent Could Replace Your Favorite Coding Tool

Gemini CLI is a command‑line AI agent that passes natural-language prompts to Gemini 2.5 Pro and returns structured responses, code, or multimedia within the terminal. Gemini 2.5 Pro supports a 1,000,000-token context window, about 50–100× larger than mainstream LLMs, enabling repository-scale reasoning. The CLI integrates with Veo for video, Imagen for images, and Google Search via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to handle multimodal tasks. During the preview, individuals can issue 60 requests per minute and 1,000 per day. Google released the entire Gemini CLI codebase under the Apache 2.0 license on GitHub, inviting pull requests and forks. Taylor Mullen,
25 June 2025
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