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Microsoft’s GitHub Hit by Major Outage as AI-Driven Demand Strains Infrastructure
GitHub, the Microsoft Corp.-owned code hosting platform serving more than 180 million developers, is still reeling from a widespread outage on Monday that severely disrupted software development pipelines globally. The hours-long incident was the latest in a relentless series of reliability failures for a service struggling to keep pace with an unprecedented surge in artificial […]
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Showing 1–24GitHub Hit by Widespread Outage, Halting Work for Global Developers
A major technical outage struck GitHub on Monday morning, disrupting workflows for millions of developers worldwide for several hours as critical services, automated testing pipelines, and artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools suffered high error rates. The hosting platform — a subsidiary of Microsoft Corp. that supports roughly 180 million users — first reported performance issues […]
Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code to Unify AI Development from First Prompt to Production
Anaconda Inc. has acquired Kilo Code, an open-source, model-agnostic platform that embeds artificial intelligence (AI) agents directly into developer workflows. The acquisition integrates Kilo’s rapid-growth community of over three million developers into Anaconda’s expanding enterprise AI-native development ecosystem. The transaction positions Anaconda to secure the entire software development lifecycle, from the developer’s initial prompt to […]
SpaceX to Acquire AI Coding Leader Cursor in $60 Billion Blockbuster Deal
Fresh off a historic initial public offering, SpaceX announced Tuesday that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Anysphere Inc., the parent company of the popular artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant Cursor, in an all-stock transaction valued at $60 billion. The acquisition cements SpaceX’s sudden transformation into an AI powerhouse, following its merger with […]
Anthropic Reverses Course on Hidden AI Restrictions Following Developer Backlash
Anthropic has abruptly walked back a controversial, unannounced policy that degraded the performance of its latest model, Claude Fable 5. The reversal follows intense backlash from the machine learning community, which criticized the company for a lack of transparency and anti-competitive behavior, according to a Wired report. The controversy began earlier this week with the […]
Google CEO Says 75% of New Code is AI-Generated
The era of the “human-only” software engineer is rapidly receding into the rearview mirror. Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed Wednesday that a whopping 75% of the company’s new code is now generated by artificial intelligence (AI), marking a major shift in how the tech giant builds its products. The velocity of this transition has caught […]
Musk’s SpaceX Targets AI Dominance with $60 Billion Cursor Deal
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal with artificial intelligence (AI) coding sensation Cursor that gives SpaceX the right to acquire the startup for $60 billion later this year or, alternatively, pay $10 billion for a collaborative partnership. The announcement, made Tuesday via Musk’s social media platform X, positions the newly formed “SpaceXAI” to challenge […]
OpenAI Bolsters AI Coding with Acquisition of Python Toolmaker Astral
OpenAI announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement to acquire Astral, the startup behind some of Python community’s most popular open-source developer tools. The acquisition marks further escalation in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted development market, which has led to a coding war between OpenAI and its primary rivals, including Anthropic and the […]
OpenAI Shifts Toward Autonomous Team Model with Codex Desktop Launch
OpenAI has launched a macOS desktop application for Codex, signaling a strategic pivot from simple artificial intelligence (AI) pair-programming to a complex command center for autonomous coding agents. The news, announced Monday, moves Codex beyond its origins as a command-line tool and IDE extension. By creating a dedicated desktop interface, OpenAI is positioning its AI […]
DeepSeek to Unfurl AI Model with Enhanced Coding Capabilities in February: Report
DeepSeek is preparing to launch its next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model, V4, in mid-February, according to a report in The Information, citing two people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans. The upcoming release marks the Chinese startup’s first major model update since its R1 reasoning model in January 2025 sparked global attention and sent […]
Best of 2025: This Bankrupt AI Startup Was More Artificial Than Intelligent
It turns out Builder.ai was more artificial than intelligent. The $1.5 billion artificial intelligence (AI) company backed by Microsoft Corp. recently shuttered operations after its neural network was exposed to actually be 700 engineers in India. Builder.ai, which has begun formal bankruptcy proceedings in jurisdictions where it operated, including India, the U.K., and the U.S., […]
Best of 2025: OpenAI Acquires Windsurf for $3 Billion
OpenAI is buying artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted coding tool Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion in its largest acquisition to date. The long-rumored deal, reported by Bloomberg News on Monday, should significantly boost ChatGPT’s coding functionality as well as put OpenAI in position to more effectively compete in the fledgling market for AI-powered […]
Cursor Acquires Graphite to Streamline AI-Powered Development
Cursor, the artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant valued at $29 billion, has acquired code review startup Graphite to address what Cursor CEO Michael Truell describes as a growing bottleneck in software development. The companies declined to disclose financial terms but confirmed the transaction involves a mix of cash and equity. While AI has dramatically accelerated […]
Anthropic Acquires Bun to Accelerate AI Coding Tools
Anthropic says it has acquired Bun, a high-performance JavaScript toolkit, to turbocharge its artificial intelligence (AI) coding capabilities — further underscoring a significant push into developer tooling as it scales Claude Code, its code-generation platform. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Anthropic emphasized that Bun will remain open source and MIT-licensed. The […]
New Relic Enhances Azure Integration with AI-Powered Observability Tools
New Relic Inc. unveiled a suite of intelligent observability integrations with Microsoft Azure on Tuesday to streamline incident response and boost developer productivity as enterprises rush to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) workflows. The company’s new AI Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server now feeds real-time observability data directly into Azure’s SRE Agent and Microsoft Foundry, eliminating […]
JFrog CEO: AI Agents Require Practices Beyond Security, Traceability
NAPA, Calif. — A new persona in software development, artificial intelligence (AI) agents rather than human developers, has made it imperative that foundational platforms incorporate agentic practices alongside security, traceability, and visibility to succeed in the AI era. “Every foundational platform requires a single system of record,” Ben Haim told the crowd. “If you don’t […]
GitHub CEO To Step Down As Company Is More Tightly Embraced by Microsoft’s CoreAI Team
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub, said on Monday he’s stepping down and will leave the company at the end of 2025 to become “a founder again,” signaling a major shakeup in how the artificial intelligence (AI) coding unit is run. Since Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018 for $7.5 billion, it has operated as […]
Cognition AI to Acquire Windsurf After Google Licensing Deal
Cognition AI late Monday emerged as the likely owner of Windsurf, the hotly contested artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup that drew months-long interest from OpenAI before striking a licensing deal with Alphabet Inc.’s Google. Cognition said it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf for an undisclosed sum, capping a whirlwind, stormy few days […]
OpenAI’s $3 Billion Deal to Buy Windsurf Unravels, Google Nabs Company Execs, Licensing Rights
OpenAI’s $3 billion bid to buy artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup Windsurf crumbled late Friday, and rival Alphabet Inc.’s Google quickly picked up the pieces: The search engine giant said it has struck a deal to acquire top Windsurf executives and licensing rights to some Windsurf technology. Google announced the hiring of Windsurf CEO Varun […]
Next Version of Grok Includes Advanced Coding Assistance: Reports
The newest Grok is expected to feature advanced coding assistance, a sign that owner Elon Musk is re-evaluating the chatbot’s strategy after Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI released powerful new models that set higher benchmarks for language model performance. Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI is skipping Grok 3.5 and moving straight to Grok 4. The […]
This Bankrupt AI Startup Was More Artificial Than Intelligent
It turns out Builder.ai was more artificial than intelligent. The $1.5 billion artificial intelligence (AI) company backed by Microsoft Corp. recently shuttered operations after its neural network was exposed to actually be 700 engineers in India. Builder.ai, which has begun formal bankruptcy proceedings in jurisdictions where it operated, including India, the U.K., and the U.S., […]
OpenAI Acquires Windsurf for $3 Billion
OpenAI is buying artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted coding tool Windsurf, formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion in its largest acquisition to date. The long-rumored deal, reported by Bloomberg News on Monday, should significantly boost ChatGPT’s coding functionality as well as put OpenAI in position to more effectively compete in the fledgling market for AI-powered […]
OpenAI in Talks to Buy Windsurf for $3 Billion: Report
OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf for about $3 billion, a move that would put it in competition with AI coding assistant providers.
Delta CEO Puts Price Tag on CrowdStrike Damage: $500 Million
Delta Air Lines Inc. Chief Executive Ed Bastian has put a price tag on CrowdStrike Inc.’s debilitating outage to his airline, $500 million, leaving the company “no choice” but to seek damages from five days of disruptions.