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TechCrunch 2 months ago 39 ● 2 sources
Cognition, the makers of the AI coding agent Devin, is reportedly in talks to raise another funding round at a higher valuation after its prior $1 billion raise.
The New Stack 2 months ago 25
Google promoted Go as a language that gives AI coding agents guardrails by relying on a small syntax, static typing, and integrated tooling, while noting that these checks still can’t verify correct business logic or data access. A June 2026 study analyzed 278,790 inline review conversations and found human reviewers required 11.8% more review rounds for agent-written code than for human-written code. As a result, even code that passes tests can still break the next AI agent’s work, shifting more maintenance and review burden to human developers.
SiliconANGLE 2 months ago 38 ● 2 sources
Blacksmith Software Inc. announced it raised $45 million to expand its continuous integration service for agent-generated code validation and cloud-based testing. The Series B was led by Peak XV Partners and values the company at $550 million. The company plans to use the funding to scale compute infrastructure as usage grows, with jobs up 5% to 10% week over week and more than 6,000 companies already using the service.
TechCrunch 2 months ago 6 ● 8 sources
Lovable confirmed it raised another round at a $13.3 billion valuation, collecting a total Series C investment led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund. The company said the Series C brought in $400 million. As a result, it expands funding for its backend and broader vibe-coding business, including its in-house trained AI model and growing Google Cloud usage, while keeping investor participation wide.
Tech Funding News 2 months ago 17 ● 2 sources
Cognition AI is in early talks to raise more than $1 billion at a valuation above $40 billion, less than three months after its prior $26 billion mark. The new round would target at least a $40 billion-plus valuation. Its repricing would take its valuation to over 50% higher while its annualised revenue run rate nears $1 billion, and it would shift investors’ expectations as competition among AI coding agents intensifies.
Tech.eu 2 months ago 5 ● 8 sources
Lovable raised $400m in a Series C round that lifted its valuation to $13.3bn, more than doubling from its prior December 2025 valuation. The round was co-led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund, managed by EQT, at a $13.3bn valuation. The funding will support expansion, including increasing headcount by 50% to 450 this year and continuing to use multiple AI models for its vibe-coding product.
TechCrunch 2 months ago 20 ● 2 sources
Blacksmith raised a new $45 million Series B as its AI code-testing platform reached more customers and expanded its tools beyond continuous integration workloads. The round valued the company at $550 million, up from a $60 million valuation at its $10 million Series A less than a year earlier. The funding and customer growth are enabling Blacksmith to hire and broaden its coding-tool suite to help developers write, validate, and merge software faster.
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25 October 2026
The biggest AI story today isn’t a model release—it’s the map. As the US and China harden into rival AI blocs, “swing countries” are trying to keep options open, and Kazakhstan’s moves show how fast the chessboard is shifting. After trips and talks on both sides, it signed an investment deal worth up to $10 billion with Nvidia for a “data center valley,” while still engaging with Chinese frameworks via initiatives like China’s World AI Cooperation Organization. The underlying point is blunt: when chip access, open-source choices, and procurement rules tighten, governments can’t play both sides indefinitely—and they’re already rebalancing around what they can plausibly run.
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