Gemini 3, Claude 4.5, Antigravity: Agents Ascend as Europe Rewrites the Rules

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Bart Smeets
November 27, 2025

Welcome to another week in the Monkey Patching universe. Below what we discussed during this week’s pod plus a few other tidbits. Thanks for checking in! ❤️

Bezos has reportedly named himself co‑CEO of a new AI startup, Project Prometheus, alongside Vik Bajaj. The company is said to focus on AI for engineering and manufacturing, has raised about $6.2B, and already hired ~100 people, including talent from OpenAI, DeepMind, and Meta. Location and technical details remain unclear; report based on NYT coverage summarized by The Guardian.

WTFPL — Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License | https://www.wtfpl.net/ 

The WTFPL is an extremely permissive, public‑domain‑style software license. The site hosts the full license text (v2 widely used), FAQs, and downloadable files, emphasizing simplicity and maximal freedom for users and developers with minimal restrictions.

GitHub — jezen/is-thirteen | https://github.com/jezen/is-thirteen

A tongue‑in‑cheek npm package that checks whether a value equals 13. The README includes install and usage examples (npm/yarn), notes its WTFPL licensing, and shows strong community interest via stars and forks. It’s a playful demonstration of minimalistic package design.

Google introduced Gemini 3, including a Gemini 3 Pro preview and a “Deep Think” mode. It touts 1M‑token context windows, improved reasoning and coding/agentic abilities, and broad integrations across AI Studio, Vertex AI, the Antigravity agent platform, Search AI Mode, and third‑party dev tools.

A revised EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation advanced toward Coreper. While explicit mandatory scanning was removed, Article 4’s “risk mitigation” could still pressure services to scan private/encrypted messages. Experts warn about risks to anonymity, age‑verification creep, and unresolved E2EE‑safe detection.

EU easing GDPR/AI Act obligations (The Verge) | https://www.theverge.com/news/823750/european-union-ai-act-gdpr-changes

The European Commission proposed relaxing parts of GDPR and the AI Act: simpler cookie handling, easier sharing of anonymized/pseudonymized datasets, extended grace periods for some high‑risk AI rules, and lighter documentation for small firms. The reforms are controversial and politically contested.

Cloudflare — 18 Nov 2025 outage post‑mortem | https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

A major network incident began ~11:20 UTC after a ClickHouse permissions change led to a malformed/duplicated Bot Management “feature” file. The file doubled in size, hit a module limit, and triggered panics. Traffic largely recovered by late afternoon; Cloudflare ruled out a cyberattack and detailed timelines and impact.

Antigravity is an agent‑first platform with an Editor and Manager for planning, executing, and verifying multi‑tool tasks. It outputs verifiable Artifacts (screenshots, recordings), is in public preview, and supports multiple models (e.g., Gemini 3 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT‑OSS) for flexible agent workflows.

Anthropic — Claude Opus 4.5 | https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-5

Opus 4.5 targets stronger coding, long‑horizon planning, and better cost/token efficiency. Anthropic claims higher pass rates and fewer tokens vs. prior models, positioning Opus 4.5 as faster and more reliable for coding, storytelling, and complex automations, with updated availability/integration details.

Tidbits

A few more tidbits, some of ‘em we touched upon others are just interesting :)

HelixGuard — “malicious‑sha1hulud” npm campaign | https://helixguard.ai/blog/malicious-sha1hulud-2025-11-24

Researchers describe a large “Sha1‑Hulud/Shai‑Hulud” npm supply‑chain wave: trojanized packages use preinstall scripts to steal tokens/credentials, register infected hosts as runners named SHA1HULUD, and create public repos with exfiltrated secrets. Some variants include destructive fallbacks; guidance and IOCs provided.

Ant Group — LingGuang “vibe coding” app (Yahoo) | https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/deals/articles/ant-groups-lingguang-vibe-coding-093000952.html 

Ant Group’s multimodal “vibe coding” app LingGuang reportedly hit ~1M downloads in four days (later >2M), briefly overloading its “flash program” feature. The app turns natural language into mini‑apps and adds camera‑based, AGI‑like capabilities for fast app building and multimodal interactions.

Google DeepMind — Nano Banana Pro (image model) | https://blog.google/technology/ai/nano-banana-pro/ 

Nano Banana Pro, aligned with Gemini 3 Pro’s image stack, targets high‑fidelity image generation/editing: improved text rendering (including multilingual), up to 4K outputs, better consistency across multiple images/people, and integrations across Gemini, Ads, Workspace, and NotebookLM, with SynthID watermarking.

Adobe announced a definitive all‑cash deal at $12/share (~$1.9B) to acquire Semrush, aiming to strengthen brand visibility and “generative engine optimization” as LLM‑driven search rises. Closing is expected in H1 2026, pending regulatory and shareholder approvals.