AI coding startup Cognition reportedly already in talks to raise at $40B valuation |

In Brief Posted: 11:19 AM PDT · August 12, 2026 Cognition, makers of the AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly already talking to investors about…

AI Conquered Coding. Fast Food Is Next

“The restaurants ended up spending more time smoothing over the problem they created,” says Michael Schatzberg, cofounder of Branded Hospitality, which invests in food-service-technology companies.…

Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C |

Indian AI coding startup Emergent has raised $130 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.5 billion post-money valuation, a five-fold jump in…

Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role |

In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PDT · June 29, 2026 Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast,…

Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in |

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen. That’s a modest sum by AI standards, but…

Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans |

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…

New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI

As Danielle settled into the rhythms of new motherhood, her profession underwent a drastic reinvention. Danielle, who asked to use her first name to avoid…

AI coding startup Cognition raises $1B at $25B pre-money valuation |

In Brief Posted: 9:00 AM PDT · May 27, 2026 Cognition, the makers of the autonomous AI software engineer namedDevin, has raised more than $1…

UiPath Unveils Native Integration for Coding Agents to Deliver Enterprise Transformation at Scale

May 15, 2026 By Stephanie Simone UiPath, a global leader in agentic business orchestration, is introducing UiPath for Coding Agents, a platform wide integration enabling…

Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware |

Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform, has backed a Danish hardware startup, Atech, that wants to introduce “vibe coding” to the process of creating hardware. Lovable…