30 years of JavaScript

 JavaScript Weekly Issue 764: December 5, 2025

Back in May 1995, a 33 year old Brendan Eich built the first prototype of JavaScript in just ten days, originally codenamed Mocha (and then LiveScript). On December 4, 1995, Netscape and Sun Microsystems officially announced 'JavaScript' in a press release as "an easy-to-use object scripting language designed for creating live online applications that link together objects and resources on both clients and servers."

Agentic AI @ AWS re:Invent 2025

AWS just made some MASSIVE Announcements (AgentCore) - YouTube

Amazon’s 144-Chip Trainium 3 Monster Server Just Destroyed Google & Nvidia’s Future! - YouTube

AWS re:Invent 2025 - Keynote with Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian - YouTube

Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, Vice President of Agentic AI, to learn how Agentic AI is poised to transform the way we live and work. In this keynote you’ll hear about the tools and services you can use to build, deploy, and run secure, reliable, and scalable agents on AWS. We will also dive deep into the engineering innovations that power your agentic systems and give you a glimpse of the future. 1:20 Welcome & opening 11:39 LAUNCH: Strands Agents - Support for Typescript and Robotics 21:12 LAUNCH: Bedrock AgentCore Memory Episodic functionality 39:05 LAUNCH: Amazon Bedrock - Reinforcement Fine Tuning (RFT) 43:48 LAUNCH: SageMaker AI (Model Customization) 50:03 LAUNCH: SageMaker HyperPod (Checkpointless Training) 1:15:51 LAUNCH: Nova Act Learn more about AWS events: https://go.aws/events

AWS just made some MASSIVE Announcements (AgentCore) - YouTube by Matthew Berman


more on Agentic AI... a popular topic now...

Stanford Webinar - Agentic AI: A Progression of Language Model Usage - YouTube

EV Hyundai Metaplant vs Tesla gigafactory

Statistic	Hyundai Metaplant (Georgia)	Tesla Gigafactory (Texas)
Total On-Site Investment	$7.6 billion (Metaplant)	$10+ billion (projected over time)
Total State Investment	$12.6 billion (including battery JV)	$10+ billion
State & Local Subsidies	$2.1 billion	Over $60 million (initial tax abatements)
Projected Annual Production	500,000 EVs	>250,000 (Model Y) + Cybertruck & future models
Key Products	Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis EV models	Model Y, Cybertruck, future next-gen vehicles
Projected Employment	8,500 direct jobs	Up to 60,000 direct jobs
Battery Strategy	Joint Venture with LG Energy Solution on-site	In-house development & production (4680 cells)
Factory/Site Size	Main building: 70 hectares (~173 acres) on a 2,900+ acre site	~10 million sq. ft. floor (~230 acres) on a 2,500 acre site

 The Hyundai Metaplant: A New Era in EV Manufacturing - IEEE Spectrum

In America’s most advanced car factory, robot dogs inspect welds

Hyundai Motor Group’s sprawling $7.6 billion Metaplant near Savannah, Ga., aims to build 500,000 EVs per year for its Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis brands. The plant currently employs about 1,400 workers, and ultimately envisions 8,500 direct jobs at the site.

Giga Texas | Tesla

Covering 2,500 acres along the Colorado River with over 10 million square feet of factory floor, Gigafactory Texas is a U.S. manufacturing hub for Model Y and the home of Cybertruck.

Tesla is doubling the size of Gigafactory Texas | Electrek