SPC's May 2026 update highlights major fundraises including Cognition's $1B Series D and Recursive's $650M round, along with events in SF, NYC, and Bangalore featuring humanoids, drones, and cybersecu…
Cognition, the AI coding firm behind the developer agent Devin, raised more than $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation, according to a company blog post and reporting by Bloomberg and Axios. The compa…
Cognition co-founder Walden Yan and OpenInspect's Cole Murray discussed the rise of "async agents" — AI coding tools that operate in the background rather than requiring constant developer oversight —…
AI coding startup Cognition raised $1 billion at a $25 billion valuation, while OpenRouter doubled its valuation to $1.3 billion in one year. Microsoft shipped Copilot Cowork, an autonomous AI agent b…
Cognition raised $1 billion in a Series D funding round that values the company at $26 billion, marking a 2.5x valuation increase from its September Series C. The AI agent lab now projects over $1 bil…
Cognition, an AI coding startup, raised $1 billion in a funding round that values the company at $26 billion. The investment underscores surging investor demand for artificial intelligence tools that …
The AI tool landscape in mid-2026 spans eight major categories with clear market leaders and intense competition, as ChatGPT maintains 5.5 billion monthly visits but faces challenges from Gemini and s…
Cognition, the developer of AI coding agent Devin, raised over $1 billion in a funding round that values the company at more than $26 billion, more than doubling its valuation in under nine months. Th…
Cognition, the developer of the autonomous AI coding agent Devin, raised over $1 billion at a $25 billion pre-money valuation on Wednesday, a sharp increase from its $10.2 billion post-money valuation…
A new study published in the journal *Cognition* confirms the "Medusa effect," a psychological bias where people perceive individuals in nested photographs (a photo within a photo) as having reduced m…
OpenAI deprecated its finetuning APIs, signaling a broader industry shift away from the technique as Anthropic nears a higher valuation than OpenAI for the first time. The move makes finetuning the la…
A speaker series hosted by the author, featuring teams from leading coding agent companies like Cognition, Sourcegraph, Cline, and Augment. A key finding across all discussions is that simpler approac…
Cognition avoids multi-agent systems for coding tasks because they suffer from context loss, akin to a "game of telephone," where critical information is miscommunicated between agents. The company fo…