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VS Code forks are diverging rapidly, not just in features, but in how they structure AI-assisted development workflows. Cursor emphasizes speed and visual polish, Windsurf leans toward dynamic ...

Coming from an engineering background, I completely understand the frustration of when you’re on a project submission deadline and your code just breaks for no reason. When a single missing semicolon ...

The latest releases of Cursor and Windsurf integrated development environments are vulnerable to more than 94 known and patched security issues in the Chromium browser and the V8 JavaScript engine. An ...

Silicon Valley’s AI talent is getting murkier by the day. Amid a flurry of poaching, billion-dollar deals, and shattered expectations, one engineer’s bold move is making waves. Prem Nair, an early ...

Windsurf faces acquisition by Cognition AI. This follows a collapsed deal with OpenAI. Google hired Windsurf's CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen. Google DeepMind also secured a license to ...

There’s been a big shake-up in the world of AI startups. Just days after Google struck a major deal with Windsurf, another player, Cognition AI, has announced it is acquiring the rest of the company.

Windsurf is an AI-powered developer tool that enables users to build full-stack applications using natural language prompts. They compete with Cursor and recently had a bunch of buyout offer drama.

The move is the culmination of a turbulent period for Windsurf, and indicates that agentic IDEs have become a new battleground. AI builders are starving for agentic integrated development environments ...

Cognition plans to integrate Windsurf’s capabilities into its own products. Artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Cognition is acquiring Windsurf, just days after Google paid a hefty sum to license ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google I/O on May 20, 2025 in Mountain View, California. Image: Google OpenAI’s $3B bid to acquire Windsurf collapsed after talks stalled, clearing the path for ...

Cognition AI Inc., a well-funded startup with an artificial intelligence coding assistant, today announced plans to buy rival Windsurf. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The sale caps off an ...