#Funding/M&A

AIThinking Machines has welcomed Luke Drago and @LRudL_, who co-founded Workshop Labs to build AI that keeps humans relevant. Mira Murati says they will continue that mission at Thinking Machines, which builds powerful AI systems that think alongside humans and extend human agency. She ties the hire to the company's broader work, including Tinker, research grants, and advancing the frontier.

AICognition is expanding into Japan, its first step into Asia, and has appointed Takumi Masai as Japan President and General Manager to lead a local team working with Japanese enterprises. DeNA has used Devin to more than double operational efficiency across multiple engineering functions, and Mizuho Securities has deployed it as one of the first large-scale financial institutions in Japan.

AIUber is running its ride and delivery matching on AWS Graviton4 chips and training its AI models on Trainium3, according to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Jassy says the Graviton4 setup matches riders with drivers in fractions of a second at lower cost, while Trainium3 helps make rides smarter over time.

AIOpenAI announced applications for its Safety Fellowship, a pilot program supporting external researchers, engineers, and practitioners in safety and alignment research on advanced AI systems. The program runs from September 14, 2026 through February 5, 2027, with a monthly stipend, compute support, API credits, and mentorship, and fellows are expected to produce a substantial output such as a paper, benchmark, or dataset. Applications close May 3, and successful applicants will be notified by July 25.

AIAman Sanger says Cursor's team evaluated many base models on perplexity-based evals and found Kimi k2.5 the strongest. Composer 2 was then built with continued pretraining and a 4x scale-up of high-compute RL, with Fireworks providing inference and RL samplers. The author admits Cursor should have named the Kimi base in its launch blog and says it will do so for the next model.

AIAman Sanger of Cursor says Composer 2 is a really good model and he is excited for more people to try it. The quoted reply from Lee Robinson says Composer 2 started from an open-source base, with only about one-quarter of the final model's compute coming from that base. Cursor plans full pretraining in the future and says it is following the license through its inference partner terms.

AILilian Weng says she is building technologies for better human-AI collaboration on next-generation hardware at scale. The post links to a Thinking Machines announcement of a partnership with Nvidia to power frontier model training and customizable AI platforms.

AIThinking Machines Lab, led by Mira Murati, has partnered with Nvidia to deploy at least 1GW of Vera Rubin systems. The stated goal is to bring adaptable collaborative AI to everyone.

AIMeta announced a partnership with AMD to integrate AMD GPUs into its infrastructure. The company says the added compute will help bring its AI experiences to more people.

AIMax Woolf reacts to Claude Code's run-rate revenue growing past $2.5 billion, more than doubling since the start of 2026. He asks whether the doubling of weekly active users since January 1 in roughly six weeks is inflated by holiday effects.

AICognition is opening a London office to expand rollout of Devin, its autonomous software engineering agent, to leading European businesses. The company says finance has emerged as a clear use case, with Goldman Sachs, Santander, Citi, and BNY among partners using Devin for modernization, migration, security remediation, and codebase documentation.

AICognizant is deploying Cognition's Devin autonomous software engineer and Windsurf agentic IDE across its engineering organization and global client base. Engineers already use Windsurf for agent-assisted coding and are exploring Devin for end-to-end tasks such as code migration, refactoring, testing, and maintenance. Cognition will embed forward-deployed AI engineers to support project selection, engineer enablement, and ROI measurement.

AIThinking Machines has parted ways with Barret Zoph, and Soumith Chintala will become the company's new CTO. Murati described Chintala as a seasoned leader who has contributed to AI for over a decade and has been a major contributor to the team.

AIFormer Meta AI leader Ahmad Al-Dahle announced he is joining Airbnb as CTO, citing Meta's open-sourcing of Llama, which has reached over 1.2 billion downloads and 60,000+ derivatives. He said the next challenge is applying advancing model capabilities to products that connect people with real places, working with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky.

AIInfosys will deploy Cognition's Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer, across its own teams and global client base to expand delivery capacity. The rollout begins in its Financial Services practice, covering banking, payments, capital markets, insurance, and wealth management, and is planned to extend to retail, energy, and healthcare. Over the past six months, Infosys reports material productivity gains, including COBOL and JCP servlet migrations completed in record time.

AIAman Sanger, owner of Cursor, argues that as agents help write an order of magnitude more code, review becomes the main bottleneck in software engineering. The post's context notes that Graphite is joining Cursor, which is relevant to code review workflows.

AIYi Tay announced that Google DeepMind's Gemini team is starting a new research team in Singapore focused on advanced reasoning, LLM/RL, and improving frontier models such as Gemini and Gemini Deep Think. The team is led by Tay and reports to Quoc Le's broader team in Mountain View, which recently contributed to IMO and ICPC gold medal results with Gemini Deep Think. The team is starting small and is recruiting exceptionally capable engineers and researchers from the region and beyond.

AIWarner Music Group and Stability AI announced a collaboration to build professional-grade, ethically trained AI tools for artists, songwriters, and producers. The companies will work directly with artists to shape tools that enhance the creative process while protecting creators' rights and revenue opportunities. Stability AI's Stable Audio models, trained exclusively on licensed data, are cited as the basis for its commercially safe generative audio offerings.

AIAman Sanger of Cursor says the team is hard at work on Composer 2. The post gives no features, benchmarks, or release timing, though it follows Cursor's $2.3B Series D raise and over $1B in annualized revenue.

AIARC Prize Foundation announced ARC Prize Verified, a program that certifies frontier model scores on the ARC-AGI benchmark using hidden test sets and adds a third-party academic panel to audit and open-source its testing process. Five AI labs, including Google and xAI, are sponsoring ARC-AGI-3 development, and the foundation says donations do not influence verification scoring. Models that pass verification will appear on the official leaderboard with a verification badge.

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.