Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch Anthropic and OpenAI in the red-hot market. Microsoft is gearing up for coding-related announcements ...

Cognition CEO Scott Wu made headlines again this week when his two-year-old AI coding agent startup raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation. Cognition is the maker of Devin, one of the first and, ...

Cursor says the biggest productivity gains in AI coding are being made by developers who can orchestrate autonomous agents, not just prompt chatbots. But there’s a downside to the genuine leap: ...

The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents. The ...

Grok's next generation is nearly ready to ship. On May 25, SpaceXAI chief Elon Musk announced that Grok foundation model V9-Medium — a 1.5 trillion-parameter model three times larger than the version ...

For months, the leading AI coding benchmarks have told enterprise buyers a comforting but misleading story: the top models are all roughly the same. OpenAI's GPT-5 family, Anthropic's Claude Opus, and ...

ING Groep NV is turning to “vibe coding” to build electronic trading tools for currencies and credit, its latest use of artificial intelligence to compete with larger peers. “Vibe coding” — telling AI ...

Outages have plagued Microsoft's GitHub unit this year as the soaring popularity of vibe coding stressed its infrastructure. GitHub's drawn-out migration to Microsoft's Azure has limited its computing ...

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Google has once again updated its “Android Bench” rankings for the best AI models for Android app development, with a bunch of new “open-weight” models as well as more details on the tokens used and ...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21 (Reuters) - AI startup Modal raised $355 million in a new round of financing, valuing the company at $4.65 billion, CEO Erik Bernhardsson told Reuters. AI startups have been ...

I recently gave my OpenClaw a real robot arm to play with. The results just about blew my own neural network. The AI agent was able to configure the arm, use it to see and slowly grab things, and even ...