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SpaceX to Acquire AI Coding Leader Cursor in $60 Billion Blockbuster Deal
Jon Swartz | | adobe, Amazon, Anthropic, Anysphere, Colossus supercomputer, Cursor, data centers, Elon Musk, google, Grok, IPO, Meta Platforms, NASDAQ, NVIDIA, OpenAI, SpaceX, Stripe, The Futurum Goup, vibe coding, xAIFresh off a historic initial public offering, SpaceX announced Tuesday that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Anysphere Inc., the parent company of the popular artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant ...
Google CEO Says 75% of New Code is AI-Generated
Jon Swartz | | AI agents, AI coding, Claude Code, google, Google DeepMind, Google Gemini, Meta Platforms, microsoft, Snap, Stanford University, Sundar PichaiThe era of the "human-only" software engineer is rapidly receding into the rearview mirror. Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed Wednesday that a whopping 75% of the company’s new code is now generated ...
Musk’s SpaceX Targets AI Dominance with $60 Billion Cursor Deal
Jon Swartz | | acquisition, Andreessen Horowitz, Anthropic, AWS, Colossus supercomputer, Composer model, Cursor, Elon Musk, google, H100 chips, hyperscalers, IPO, microsoft, neocloud, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Sam Altman, SEC, SpaceX, The New York Times, vibe coding, xAIElon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal with artificial intelligence (AI) coding sensation Cursor that gives SpaceX the right to acquire the startup for $60 billion later this year or, alternatively, pay ...
Eclipse Foundation Unfurls Managed VSX Registry Service
Mike Vizard | | AI coding tools, AWS, Cursor, Eclipse Foundation, google, infrastructure funding, managed services, open source, Open VSX Registry, scalability, software engineering, VS Code extensionsThe Eclipse Foundation launches a paid Open VSX Managed Registry to help industry partners sustainably fund the infrastructure behind VS Code extensions ...
OpenAI Bolsters AI Coding with Acquisition of Python Toolmaker Astral
Jon Swartz | | Anthropic, Astral, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cybersecurity, google, health care, I/O, Jony Ive, open-source developer tools, OpenAI, Promptfoo, Python, Sam Altman, software engineers, TorchOpenAI announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement to acquire Astral, the startup behind some of Python community’s most popular open-source developer tools. The acquisition marks further escalation in the rapidly ...
GitHub CEO To Step Down As Company Is More Tightly Embraced by Microsoft’s CoreAI Team
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub, said on Monday he’s stepping down and will leave the company at the end of 2025 to become “a founder again,” signaling a major shakeup ...
Cognition AI to Acquire Windsurf After Google Licensing Deal
Cognition AI late Monday emerged as the likely owner of Windsurf, the hotly contested artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup that drew months-long interest from OpenAI before striking a licensing deal with Alphabet ...
OpenAI’s $3 Billion Deal to Buy Windsurf Unravels, Google Nabs Company Execs, Licensing Rights
OpenAI's $3 billion bid to buy artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup Windsurf crumbled late Friday, and rival Alphabet Inc.'s Google quickly picked up the pieces: The search engine giant said it has ...
Google’s OSV-Scanner V2: Leveling Up Vulnerability Management for Developers
Google's OSV-Scanner V2.0.0 brings enhanced vulnerability scanning with container support, interactive visualizations, and innovative remediation features ...
Gemini Code Assist Goes Free: What DevOps Teams Need to Know About Google’s AI Coding Tool
Google launches free version of Gemini Code Assist with 90x more completions than competitors, offering AI-powered coding and GitHub reviews for individuals and teams ...
Google Previews Jules AI Agent to Automate Software Engineering Tasks
Google today previewed an experimental edition of the Jules coding agent, that makes use of next-generation multimodal Gemini 2.0 models to automate coding tasks. Designed to be integrated with code repositories such ...
