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When Harjot Gill launched FluxNinja, an observability startup he co-founded after selling his first company Netsil to Nutanix in 2018, he didn’t expect his next big idea would emerge from watching his own engineers at work. “We had a team of remote engineers who were starting to adopt AI
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Microsoft is rolling out a new feature in Visual Studio Code that automatically selects the best AI model for developers using GitHub Copilot. The “auto model” function will dynamically pick between options like Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, and others to deliver what Microsoft calls “optimal performance.” For free
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OpenAI announced Monday that it is rolling out GPT-5-Codex, a new version of its AI coding agent. The model introduces a more dynamic approach to “thinking time,” allowing it to spend anywhere from just a few seconds to as long as seven hours on a coding task. According to the
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Replit, the fast-growing collaborative coding platform, has closed a $250 million funding round that values the company at $3 billion, according to sources familiar with the deal. The round marks a dramatic leap in valuation from its last raise in 2023, when the startup secured $100 million at a $1.
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Cognition AI, the fast-rising startup behind the AI coding agent Devin, has surged to a $10.2 billion valuation after securing a fresh $400 million funding round, according to Bloomberg. The deal represents a steep jump from the company’s $4 billion valuation earlier this year and signals investor confidence
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, announced on Thursday the release of its first agentic coding model, marking the company’s entry into one of the most competitive arenas in AI development. The model, named grok-code-fast-1, is described by xAI as a “speedy and economical” tool designed to autonomously
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AI-powered coding tools have seen an explosion in popularity in recent months, becoming the latest battleground for tech companies looking to redefine how software is built. These tools — often dubbed “vibe-coding” platforms — allow users to describe what they want an app to do, and the AI takes care of the
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OpenAI has launched a powerful new AI tool—ChatGPT agent—marking a significant leap in the company’s ongoing evolution from chatbot to action-taking digital assistant. This latest offering, now available to Pro, Plus, and Team subscribers, aims to automate a wide range of computer-based tasks traditionally handled by humans.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a preview of Kiro, an artificial intelligence-powered tool designed to help developers write software more efficiently and collaboratively. Announced by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on X, Kiro represents Amazon’s latest move to compete in the rapidly evolving field of AI-assisted software development. Jassy
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In a dramatic turn of events highlighting the escalating competition in the AI development space, Cognition — the startup behind the viral AI coding agent Devin — announced on Monday that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire fellow AI coding startup Windsurf. The acquisition follows a chaotic weekend of executive
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Swedish AI startup Lovable, a standout in the rapidly growing world of “vibe coding,” is reportedly raising over $150 million in fresh funding at a valuation nearing $2 billion, according to the Financial Times. This marks a dramatic leap from just a few months ago, when the company closed a
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Google has unveiled a new tool designed to put the power of its Gemini AI models directly into the hands of developers — right from the command line. The company announced the release of Gemini CLI, a locally running, agentic AI tool that brings conversational intelligence to where developers work most: