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Cognition CEO Scott Wu said his company's AI coding agent Devin is not designed to replace human programmers, despite the startup's $1 billion funding round at a $26 billion valuation. Wu, a former child competitive prog…
A product manager who built a game AI Agent using vibe coding encountered four distinct hallucination bugs during testing, including the Agent fabricating a non-existent weapon with detailed stats and generating a struct…
A developer built AutoMaxFix, a Python CLI tool that intentionally stops after fixing a single failing test, after repeatedly observing AI coding agents produce "successful" patches that quietly broke unrelated code. The…
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 cybersecurity research. Membe…
SpaceX has lowered its initial public offering valuation target to at least $1.8 trillion, down from a previous goal of over $2 trillion, according to people familiar with the matter. The rocket and AI company, which is …
Anthropic PBC’s seven co-founders, including siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, each became worth about $8 billion after the AI firm raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, adding the most billionaires from a sin…
The Nikkei Stock Average closed above 65,000 on May 25 for the first time, accelerating a rally that moved the benchmark from 50,000 to 60,000 in six months and then to 65,000 in weeks. The advance was driven by easing M…
At the SaaStr AI Annual 2026 conference, organizers reported that their Amelia AI agent processed 442,000 chats and booked 614 qualified meetings from 2.2 million website sessions, with an average sponsor deal size of $8…
Basketball Hall of Famer Carmelo Anthony's production company, Creative 7 Productions, has become a strategic partner and investor in Utopai Studios to develop sports and entertainment intellectual property using the stu…
SentinelOne shares fell 12% after the company announced plans to cut 8% of its full-time workforce to focus on artificial intelligence and data investments. CEO Tomer Weingarten told analysts the layoffs are a deliberate…
A developer has created Aweskill, a CLI-first Skill package manager designed to be operated autonomously by AI coding agents. The tool enables agents to install, manage, and troubleshoot their own Skills without human in…
Block Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey laid off nearly half the company's workforce in March 2026, citing AI coding agents as the reason, and investors responded by driving the stock price up 25 percent in after-hours trading. The m…
French neocloud company Mistral AI has selected VAST Data’s storage and AI Operating System stack to power its Mistral Compute GPU cloud infrastructure, providing sovereign AI facilities in Europe. The deployment will su…
Brilliant has launched an AI tutor designed to encourage critical thinking in children. The tool aims to engage young learners with interactive problem-solving rather than providing direct answers. This release targets t…
Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo unit will deploy a new autonomous vehicle called the Ojai, built with China-based Geely's Zeekr, to offer public rides without human supervision in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. The purpo…
A developer calculated their monthly software subscription costs and found they were spending $67.89 per month ($814.68 per year) on essential developer tools, with costs rising to $194.89 per month ($2,338.68 per year) …
Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, an atheist and former Thiel fellow, spoke at a Vatican ceremony following Pope Leo's historic AI encyclical, which called for "disarming" the technology. Olah acknowledged the "oddness" o…
By 2027, the role of software developers will shift from manual coding to system architecture and AI orchestration, as repetitive implementation tasks become automated. Engineers will increasingly describe intent rather …
Tesla Inc. has registered only 42 vehicles for its Texas robotaxi service, according to new state data, while rival Waymo operates 577 automated vehicles in the state — more than 13 times Tesla's fleet. The figures, disc…
Occupy Wall Street co-founder Micah White has launched Outcry, a free, offline AI mentor for activists that runs entirely on a user's device without cloud processing or data logging. The 3GB app provides step-by-step org…