Google hired Windsurf’s core team and licensed its AI tech for $2.4B to support agentic coding in DeepMind’s Gemini project.

Cognition acquires AI coding startup Windsurf, gaining its IP, talent, and user base, strengthening its position to compete ...

In an unexpected turn of events, artificial intelligence startup Cognition announced this week that it is acquiring AI coding ...

Coding has emerged as genAI’s killer use case. But what if its benefits are a mirage?

For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software ...

Windsurf is an AI-powered developer tool that enables users to build full-stack applications using natural language prompts.

How OpenAI's $3B Windsurf deal was sabotaged by Anthropic and vetoed by Microsoft, leading to a Google poach and a final ...

Last Thursday, more than 40 researchers and engineers at Windsurf, a startup that has developed an artificial intelligence–powered coding tool, began gathering at a hotel in Mountain View, Calif., ...

Cognition is acquiring Windsurf days after Google DeepMind hired its CEO and research leaders, and months after OpenAI ...

Bay Area tech companies are battling to build popular, useful artificial intelligence — and the fight just ripped apart a ...

Cognition AI has acquired what remains of AI coding startup Windsurf, including IP, staff, and assets. The deal follows Google’s hire of Windsurf’s co-founder and CEO, after a prior USD 3 billion ...

Initial community reactions were mixed but intrigued. Developers praised the emphasis on specs, hooks, and structure.