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This Week I Learned -  * Python turns 35 this month. It started as a hobby project in 1991.  * A sovereign cloud is a type of cloud service where data is both legally protected and physically stored within a country’s borders. Global spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is expected to reach $80 billion in 2026, marking a 35.6% increase from 2025, according to Gartner. * Just 3.3% of Copilot Chat users pay for it * Kimi K2.5 is an open-source model from Moonshot AI. Kimi K2.5 Built as a native multimodal model, K2.5 delivers state-of-the-art coding and vision capabilities and a self-directed agent swarm paradigm. Kimi K2.5 is available via Kimi.com, the Kimi App, the API, and Kimi Code. Kimi.com & Kimi App now supports 4 modes: K2.5 Instant, K2.5 Thinking, K2.5 Agent, and K2.5 Agent Swarm (Beta). Beyond text prompts, K2.5 excels at coding with vision. By reasoning over images and video, K2.5 improves image/video-to-code generation and visual d...

In 2026, the landscape for online IDEs has shifted toward "AI-native" environments. Most platforms now offer a free tier that includes a chat assistant, though they usually limit the number of "high-reasoning" (GPT-4 or Claude 3.5/4 level) queries you can make per month. Check out this list of online code editors for web apps that feature built-in AI chat, perfect for getting started at no cost: 1. Firebase Studio is Google's modern browser-based IDE with Gemini AI chat/assistance built-in for code generation, debugging, explanations, refactoring, and even agent-driven workflows. Excellent for web apps, supports frameworks like React, Next.js, etc., live previews, and easy deployment. It has built-in Gemini chat and code completion. Because Firebase Studio was designed "for the AI era," it excels at adding Gemini-powered features (chat interfaces, content generation, personalization, etc.) into web apps. You can prototype AI flows (model inference, ag...