Local AI is dead, according to a developer who argues that the intelligence and runtime of AI agents have moved to the cloud, citing companies like Cognition, Cursor, OpenAI, and Replit that run their…
AGENTS.md, an open format for coding-agent project context now read automatically by 23 tools, has been shown by three research groups to double as an instruction-injection vector for credential theft…
A software factory is a repeatable system that converts engineering intent into verified software changes, according to a comparison of five products—Cursor Cloud Agents, Linear Coding Sessions, Facto…
Software factories are returning, driven by AI-generated code, with leading companies like Anthropic, Cognition, Cursor, Factory, Google, GitHub, OpenAI, and Ramp converging on a similar automated dev…
Blackstone is considering a new funding round for Nvidia-backed AI coding firm Factory that would value the San Francisco-based startup at more than $3.5bn, sources told City AM. The deal would mark F…
Factory, an AI-powered software development platform, runs its entire cloud backend on Vercel's Next.js, handling tens of millions of daily API requests with a p95 response time of 350ms or below, wit…
Factory, an AI-powered software development platform, scaled its cloud backend on Vercel to serve one billion daily API requests with a p95 response time of 350ms or below, without a dedicated infrast…
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 …
A developer surveyed coding agents to determine which support the disable-model-invocation frontmatter field, which prevents AI models from automatically loading skills. The survey found that Claude C…
At the AI Engineer World's Fair in San Francisco, the central theme was that AI models are no longer the bottleneck; instead, human attention has become the scarce resource, as teams adopt multi-agent…
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…