Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, doubling its December valuation, with Menlo Ventures expected to lead the round. The company, which …
SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor raises questions about whether the platform will continue offering models from rival labs Anthropic and OpenAI. Cursor hopes to remain mode…
Warp CEO Zach Lloyd announced at the AI Engineer World's Fair that the company is pivoting to a software factory platform called Oz, which automates the entire software development loop from triage to…
The AI Engineer World's Fair on Tuesday focused on loops, agent engineering, and software factories, with speakers emphasizing the use of persistent coding agents and automated development lifecycles.…
Anthropic unveiled Sonnet 5, the latest Claude model, as a cost-efficient alternative to larger models amid rising AI expenses. The model offers agentic capabilities at lower pricing, with early teste…
Factory co-founder and CEO Matan Cohen presented the concept of a software factory at the AI Engineer World Fair in San Francisco, defining it as the full autonomous cycle of software development incl…
Railway launched three connection methods for AI agents to access its platform: Local MCP via CLI, Remote MCP via OAuth, and CLI+Agent. The move aims to enable agents to deploy, manage, and debug proj…
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg bought each of his first 30 employees a $3,000 Eight Sleep mattress cover to improve their sleep and cognitive performance, comparing the need for rest to that of profession…
Matan Grinberg, founder and CEO of Factory, said value accrual in tech is time-dependent and that the US lacks frontier open models, which he called embarrassing. He argued that outsourcing AI develop…
Factory AI launched Factory Router, a model selection system that automatically chooses the most cost-effective large language model for each coding task to reduce token spending without sacrificing p…
A coding agent harness comparison published in May 2026 analyzed nine terminal coding tools — Claude Code, Codex, Amp, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Pi, Command Code, Factory, and Aider — across open source s…