Bloomberg reported that Elon Musk's SpaceX attempted to acquire AI coding startup Cognition, but Cognition CEO Scott Wu denied the report, stating the company is not for sale and that no talks have oc…
SpaceX approached Cognition, the AI coding startup founded by Scott Wu, about an acquisition, but the talks are inactive, according to Bloomberg. The two companies continue to discuss a compute arrang…
SpaceX approached artificial intelligence coding startup Cognition AI Inc. about a potential acquisition, though talks are not currently active, according to people familiar with the matter. Cognition…
Cognition, founded by Scott Wu, Steven Hao, and Walden Yan, used its AI agent Devin to migrate its marketing site from Astro to Next.js, with the agent recording its verification runs to reproduce sub…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said founders should spend heavily on AI agents, even up to $100,000 a year, to gain a competitive edge, calling it 'tokenmaxxing' and claiming it lets them 'live in 2028.' …
Cognition added xAI's Grok 4.6 to Devin Desktop and Devin CLI on August 12th, giving developers another foundation model for agent-driven coding. In Cognition's FrontierCode 1.1 Extended benchmark, Gr…
Cognition, maker of the AI coding agent Devin, is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $40 billion valuation, according to Bloomberg, just three months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion …
Cognition, the AI coding company led by CEO Scott Wu, is in early talks with investors about a financing that could value it at $40 billion or more, Bloomberg reported on August 11. The proposed valua…
Cognition announced on July 23 that it acquired The Interaction Company, maker of the texting-based AI assistant Poke, for a low-nine-figure valuation according to TechCrunch. Cognition plans to integ…
Cognition CEO Scott Wu argues that traditional AI benchmarks are losing their meaning as models saturate every test, with the company's AI coding agent Devin approaching near-perfect scores on SWE-Ben…
Cognition, the $26 billion startup behind the autonomous coding agent Devin, has acquired The Interaction Company of California, makers of Poke, the first AI agent Apple officially supports inside iMe…
Cognition, the AI lab behind autonomous coding agent Devin, has acquired The Interaction Company, the startup behind text-based AI assistant Poke, in a deal valuing the target in the low nine figures.…
AI coding startup Cognition has acquired The Interaction Company of California, the maker of the AI assistant Poke, in a deal valued in the low nine figures. The acquisition will bring Poke's conversa…
Cognition, the AI coding company behind Devin, has acquired Poke, a personal AI agent that operates through messaging apps, bringing founders Marvin von Hagen and Felix Schlegel into the business. Cog…
Unilever USA president Herrish Patel announced the company's largest-ever sports partnership as official personal care sponsor of the 2026 World Cup, aiming to build 'desire at scale' in the U.S. mark…
Cognition CEO Scott Wu criticized tech companies for prioritizing AI token usage over employee productivity, urging them to measure output instead. Wu's comments follow reports that Meta and Amazon sc…
Cognition CEO Scott Wu criticized token leaderboards for ranking engineers by AI token usage, calling them 'directionally correct' but prone to abuse. He argued that companies should instead measure a…
Enterprises are increasingly adopting "model routing" to match tasks with the cheapest adequate AI model, a shift that threatens revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. Glean CEO Arvind Jain estimates 95% o…
Anthropic surpassed OpenAI to become the world's most valuable AI startup at a $965 billion valuation, driven by enterprise adoption of Claude Code. The proliferation of AI coding agents continued wit…
Cognition AI closed a Series D round exceeding $1 billion, raising its valuation to $26 billion from $10.2 billion in September 2025, as the maker of the autonomous coding agent Devin more than double…