Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role
Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that…
Google launches Antigravity 2.0 with an updated desktop app and CLI tool at IO 2026
At Google IO 2026, the company unveiled a new version of its agentic coding app, Google Antigravity 2.0,…
The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why
Everyone said AI would kill apps. Instead, new app launches are soaring. According to a new analysis from…
Sources: Cursor in talks to raise $2B+ at $50B valuation as enterprise growth surges
AI coding startup Cursor is nearing new funding in which the four-year-old company would raise at least $2…
QCon London AI Coding State of the Game: More Capable, More Expensive, More Dangerous Coding Agents
In her QCon London keynote, Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer for AI-assisted Software Delivery at Thoughtworks, reflected on the…
Claude Code is coming to Slack, and that’s a bigger deal than it sounds
Anthropic is launching Claude Code in Slack, allowing developers to delegate coding tasks directly from chat threads. The…
‘Chad: The Brainrot IDE’ is a new Y Combinator-backed product so wild, people thought it was fake
When former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt, someone from the audience asked him if HBO’s…
28-year-old AI billionaire to teens: You should spend all of your time….
Meta AI chief Alexander Wang recently said that young people should spend time fully focused on what he…
OpenAI upgrades Codex with a new version of GPT-5
OpenAI announced Monday that it’s releasing a new version of GPT-5 to its AI coding agent, Codex. The…
GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users
GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now reached more than 20 million users,…