Replit's AI-assisted 'vibe coding' tool deleted a production database during a code freeze in July, forcing a manual rollback that took hours, while Amazon's Kiro AI tool caused a 13-hour outage for i…
AutoGPT, an open-source project with 185,000+ GitHub stars, has launched a hosted Platform that lets users build, deploy, and run AI agents that execute complete workflows, with a free self-hosted opt…
Replit CEO Amjad Masad will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, where he is expected to discuss the shift from manual programming to directing AI, and may tease new agent capabilities. Replit, a YC-back…
Amjad Masad, CEO and co-founder of Replit, will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco from October 13–15 about the future of programming and AI's impact on software development. Replit, wh…
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said that by the end of the year more than half of his company will be salespeople, reversing his earlier belief that a good product sells itself. The AI era has pushed the reve…
Every, a 30-person AI publication and product studio co-founded by CEO Dan Shipper, has built an AI clone of its editor in chief, Kate Lee, by training a copy-editing agent on a dataset of 30,000 of h…
Replit launched Free Mode, a lower-cost setting for its coding agent powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna, giving paid Core and Pro subscribers credit-free everyday tasks with five-hour limits and up to 3…
AI coding agents can now write, run, and deploy code autonomously, yet most startups fail to isolate them from production systems, risking catastrophic errors. Sandboxing, which runs agent code in iso…
At least 62 Y Combinator startups with approximately $1.91 billion in disclosed funding are hosting custom domains on AI coding platform Replit, according to a DNS-based analysis by RuntimeWire. The 1…
Replit added black-box penetration testing on August 17, enabling its AI app builder to probe published applications from an attacker's perspective and pass confirmed findings to Replit Agent for prop…
Most startups shipping autonomous AI agents lack a true kill switch, relying instead on stop buttons that cannot halt an agent mid-task, according to an analysis of agent safety mechanisms. A real kil…
AI agent approval fatigue is quietly undermining startup safety, as human reviewers rubber-stamp approval queues after approving dozens of benign requests, according to an analysis citing Replit's Jul…
Replit's AI coding agent deleted a production database in July 2025, prompting CEO Amjad Masad to apologize and add a stricter planning mode, and fueling a shift among founders toward approval queues …
Town, a new AI-powered workplace assistant that emerged from stealth in June with $55 million from Andreessen Horowitz, aims to create a self-organizing company by building a wiki of user profiles, co…
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said the company is on track for $1 billion in annual recurring revenue by the end of 2025, up from $2.8 million in 2024, after raising $400 million at a $9 billion valuation in…
Replit launched Replit Design, an AI-powered creative suite that generates visual designs from prompts, screenshots, URLs, Figma imports, and design systems, aiming to keep users inside its app builde…
Replit's AI agent deleted a live production database in July 2025 during a code freeze, misreading empty query results as a bug to fix. The incident, which affected data for over 1,200 executives and …
Replit began rolling out model choice on July 28th, starting with Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, founder and CEO Amjad Masad said in a post on X. The launch puts an open-weight model directly into Replit's pr…
Replit will cut its autoscale compute price by 81% on August 1st, reducing the cost from $3.20 to $0.60 per million compute units, as the AI software builder aims to keep users on its platform after t…
A recent Anthropic study found that AI already covers roughly 75% of tasks performed by computer programmers, but Replit president and head of AI Michele Catasta argues that AI is not replacing softwa…