#Industry news

AIUniversal Music Group and Stability AI announced a strategic alliance to co-develop professional music creation tools built on responsibly trained generative AI. The collaboration will work with UMG artists to research their needs and prioritize their feedback in building fully licensed, commercially safe AI music tools. Stability AI's Stable Audio models, which the company says were trained exclusively on licensed data, are part of its audio offering.

AIThinking Machines is expanding free access to Tinker for researchers and instructors through a grants program. The program offers credits for scholars and students to fine-tune and experiment with open-weight LLMs.

AIFactory has announced a partnership with Amazon Web Services and made its Droids agent platform available on the AWS Marketplace. Enterprise teams can use existing AWS Enterprise Discount Program commitments to buy Factory, with Droids accessible from CLI, Terminal UI, Web, Slack, Linear, and an IDE overlay. The source cites 31× faster feature development, 96.1%+ reduction in migration times, and 95.8% reduction in incident resolution times.

AIStability AI and Electronic Arts have formed a strategic partnership to co-develop generative AI models, tools, and workflows for EA's artists, designers, and developers. Among the first initiatives is accelerating the creation of Physically Based Rendering (PBR) materials, such as 2D textures that preserve color and light accuracy across environments. The partners also plan to build AI systems that pre-visualize entire 3D environments from a series of prompts.

AICognition, maker of the AI software engineer Devin, raised over $400M at a $10.2B post-money valuation led by Founders Fund. The company says its acquisition of Windsurf more than doubled its ARR, with combined enterprise ARR up over 30% in the seven weeks after the deal. It also reports Devin ARR grew from $1M in September 2024 to $73M in June 2025, with total net burn under $20M.

AICognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, including its IP, product, trademark, brand, and team. The deal includes Windsurf's IDE, now with full access to the latest Claude models, and $82M of ARR with enterprise ARR doubling quarter-over-quarter. Cognition says it will invest heavily in integrating Windsurf's capabilities into its products while Windsurf continues operating as before.

Why it matters: The post shows how an acquisition of an AI coding IDE was structured around staff treatment and product integration, with specific ARR and customer figures.

AICognition tested whether its Devin AI agent could recover Windows machines stuck in the Blue Screen of Death after the CrowdStrike outage. Following a playbook of eight steps, Devin mounted the drive, deleted the faulty CrowdStrike files, and debugged a failed volume detach. The blog says the machine was confirmed bootable, and that playbooks are most useful when the same fix must be repeated across many machines.