Emergent raised $130 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, highlighting investor demand for AI coding tools aimed at SMBs and non-technical builders.

Coverage comparing Claude Sonnet 5, Sonnet 4.6, and Opus 4.8 highlights how API pricing and coding benchmarks are shaping model choices.

Chamath Palihapitiya raised a $135M Series A for 8090 Labs and assumed the CEO role at his AI coding startup, which builds Software Factory for corporate programming teams.

OpenAI announced the acquisition of Ona, a cloud environment startup, to enhance its Codex AI coding assistant with agent-ready infrastructure.

OpenAI is folding Codex into ChatGPT as it pursues stickier, higher-margin AI businesses beyond general chat.

GitHub Copilot's move to usage-based token billing drew criticism from developers worried about sharply higher costs.

Antigravity 2.0 adds a desktop app, CLI, SDK, subagents, scheduling and integrations for agent-first software development.

OpenAI's Codex coding agent is now available in preview inside ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps.

Researchers found thousands of AI-built apps with weak authentication, exposing corporate and personal data on the open web.

Elon Musk's SpaceX entered a $10 billion joint development deal with AI coding startup Cursor, with an option to acquire the company outright.

SpaceX has an agreement to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, signaling Elon Musk's deepening push into artificial intelligence tools.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has reportedly told staff that Google needs to close the gap with Anthropic on AI coding agents as a step toward self-improving AI systems.

AI coding startup Factory has hit a $1.5 billion valuation as enterprise demand for AI-assisted software development continues to surge in 2026.

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are locked in an escalating battle for AI coding tool supremacy, with Claude dominating conversations at the HumanX conference and Cursor raising massive funding.

Cursor has released Cursor 3, a redesigned agent-first coding platform that directly challenges Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex for developer mindshare.

Startup Qodo raised $70 million in Series B funding to build AI agents for code review, testing, and governance in production environments.

Anthropic introduced a new 'auto mode' for Claude Code that uses AI classifiers to autonomously approve safe actions and block risky ones, reducing developer approval fatigue while preventing incidents like accidental file deletion or credential exposure.

Cursor's Composer 2, marketed as frontier-level coding intelligence, was revealed to be fine-tuned from Kimi K2.5, an open-source model by Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI backed by Alibaba.

AI coding startup Cursor released Composer 2, a software-development-only model trained exclusively on code data, scoring 61.3 on CursorBench and matching Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4 at significantly lower token prices, as the company enters talks for a $50 billion valuation.

OpenAI announced its acquisition of Astral, the startup behind Python's most widely used developer tools including uv, Ruff, and ty, aiming to embed them into the Codex AI coding platform and expand its reach across the full software development lifecycle.