AW Dev Rethought Radar | Nov 23 – 29, 2025

Your 5-minute tech digest — frontier models, agent IDEs, broken meetings, and hardware getting expensive.

🔭 The Rethought Radar

• Claude Opus 4.5 – Anthropic’s new “frontier” model (Nov 24)

  Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.5, its new flagship model for coding, agents, and serious computer work.

  Opus 4.5 is tuned for:

  • complex codebases and refactors
  • long-running autonomous agents that can plan + iterate
  • heavy Excel / spreadsheet modelling, slide prep, forecasting

  It’s live in Claude apps, the Claude API, plus major clouds, and is already rolling into Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot, making it a real contender in the dev-tools space.

• Google Antigravity – an agent-first IDE era begins (launched 18th, lands in dev workflows this week)

  Google’s Antigravity isn’t “just another Copilot” — it’s an agent-driven development environment.

  Instead of pure autocomplete, it gives you:

  • an Agent Manager to orchestrate multiple AI agents
  • an IDE where agents code, test, and browse in parallel
  • workflows for asynchronous, verifiable coding

  Antigravity launched alongside Gemini 3 on Nov 18, but this week Google pushed updated codelabs and tutorials (Nov 20 & 28), so developers are finally getting a concrete path to try it in real projects.

• Google Meet outage turns into an unplanned “break” (Nov 26)

  On Nov 26, thousands of users — especially in India — suddenly couldn’t join Google Meet calls.

  • desktop/web users saw “502. That’s an error”
  • issues included login failures, join errors, and server glitches
  • mobile app worked for many, but workflows were still broken

  Google’s status dashboard confirmed the disruption, and outage trackers showed a sharp spike in complaints before services recovered. For remote teams, it was yet another reminder that your meeting stack is only as reliable as the cloud behind it.

• RAM & SSD prices surge under AI pressure (Nov 27)

  If you’re planning a new PC, laptop, or phone upgrade, this week brought bad news:

  • DRAM (RAM) prices have reportedly jumped up to ~500%
  • SSD/NAND prices are up by around 100%
  • system builders warned of $80–$160 price hikes per machine starting early December

  The cause? AI datacenters hoarding memory and storage to feed LLMs and inference clusters, squeezing the consumer market. If readers were waiting for “later” to upgrade, this might be the last calm moment before the price wave hits.

• SAP’s EU AI Cloud doubles down on “sovereign AI” (Nov 27)

  SAP capped the week by launching EU AI Cloud, a full-stack sovereign AI + cloud offering for Europe.

  Key ideas:

  • AI + data stay under EU-aligned governance
  • optimized for SAP’s SaaS/ERP customers in regulated industries
  • part of the broader push where Europe wants AI power without losing control of data

  It continues the “sovereign AI” thread we’ve seen from multiple players, but with SAP packaging it as a unified cloud story.

🏗 Industry Moves

• Anthropic vs. everyone – Opus 4.5 pushes harder into enterprise coding + agents, directly against GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3.
• Google’s dev experience jumps a level – Antigravity is Google’s clearest vision of what an agentic dev stack looks like.
• Cloud reliability vs. daily life – Meet’s outage shows how a single SaaS disruption can freeze classes, interviews, and standups in one shot.
• AI eats hardware margins – RAM/SSD spikes prove that AI infra has downstream impact on consumer hardware pricing.
• Sovereign stacks keep growing – SAP’s EU AI Cloud is one more big piece in the “who actually controls the AI + data?” battle.

🔭 Trend to Watch — Agents on top, hardware underneath

• This week feels like the stack in motion:
  • Top of the stack: smarter frontier models (Opus 4.5) and agent-first tools (Antigravity).
  • Middle: collaboration tools (Meet) getting stress-tested in real life.
  • Bottom: hardware and infrastructure (RAM, SSDs, sovereign clouds) shifting to keep up.
• AI isn’t just “one feature” anymore — it’s reshaping how we build, how much hardware costs, and who controls the rails.

✍ Closing Note

That’s your week, rethought ✨ — frontier models, agent IDEs, broken meetings, and a clear sign that AI demand is now reshaping hardware and cloud economics.

See you next weekend with fresh signals from the tech cosmos.