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…
Is Vibe Coding Already Dead? Even Karpathy Is Moving On
Is vibe coding already dead? Even Karpathy is moving on getty Andrej Karpathy gave vibe coding its name…
AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation
Cognition, the makers of the autonomous AI software engineer named Devin, has raised more than $1 billion at a…
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,…
Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code
A large part of Airbnb’s Q1 2026 earnings call was dedicated to talking about how the company is…
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…
Apple Pushes Siri Programmers to Adopt AI Coding Tools
Apple plans to send “a significant chunk” of its Siri programmers to a weekslong bootcamp to learn to…
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…
Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners — and which are still wide open
Solo VC investor extraordinaire Elad Gil said on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt that AI has been one of…