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SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B to Boost xAI-Powered AI Division
SpaceX has agreed to acquire the AI coding startup Cursor in a historic $60 billion stock transaction, closely following the space company's recent IPO. The acquisition aims to revitalize SpaceX's AI division, which inco...
Anthropic in Talks for Massive $50B Funding Round at $900B Valuation Amid Explosive Revenue Growth
Anthropic, creator of the Claude AI assistant, is reportedly considering a $40-50 billion funding round at a valuation between $850-900 billion, with a board decision expected in May. The company's annual revenue run rat...
Spotify Developers Stop Writing Code Manually as AI System Takes Over Programming Tasks
Spotify reported that its top developers haven't written code since December, relying instead on an internal AI system called "Honk" that uses Claude Code for real-time code deployment. Engineers can now request bug fixe...
AWS Launches Autonomous AI Coding Agents Capable of Multi-Day Independent Operation
Amazon Web Services announced three new AI agents, including Kiro autonomous agent that can independently write production code for days at a time with minimal human intervention. The agents handle coding, security revie...
Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 4.5 with Advanced Autonomous Coding Capabilities
Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 4.5, a new AI model claiming state-of-the-art coding performance that can build production-ready applications autonomously. The model has demonstrated the ability to code independently fo...
OpenAI Releases GPT-5-Codex with Dynamic Thinking Capabilities for Enhanced AI Coding
OpenAI has launched GPT-5-Codex, an upgraded version of its AI coding agent that can dynamically allocate thinking time from seconds to seven hours on coding tasks. The model demonstrates superior performance on coding b...
OpenAI Acquires Alex Codes Team to Strengthen AI Coding Agent Development
OpenAI has hired the team behind Alex Codes, a Y-Combinator-backed startup that created an AI coding assistant for Apple's Xcode development environment. The three-person team is joining OpenAI's Codex division to work o...
Claude Sonnet 4 Expands Context Window to 1 Million Tokens for Enterprise Coding Applications
Anthropic has increased Claude Sonnet 4's context window to 1 million tokens (750,000 words), five times its previous limit and double OpenAI's GPT-5 capacity. This enhancement targets enterprise customers, particularly...
OpenAI has introduced Codex, a new AI coding agent powered by the codex-1 model (an optimized version of o3) that can write features, fix bugs, answer questions about codebases, and run tests in a sandboxed environment....
Apple and Anthropic Collaborate on AI-Powered Code Generation Platform
Apple and Anthropic are reportedly developing a "vibe-coding" platform that leverages Anthropic's Claude Sonnet model to write, edit, and test code for programmers. The system, a new version of Apple's Xcode programming...