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Google Goes Windsurfing in the AI War for Talent
The "acqui-hire" strategy is on fire in this battle among tech titans seeking AI dominance and a Goliath just beat David ...
Google Spends $2.4B on Windsurf to Advance Its ‘Agentic Coding’
OpenAI’s $3B bid to acquire Windsurf collapsed after talks stalled, clearing the path for Google to license its AI coding ...
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Cognition agrees to buy what’s left of Windsurf
The move is the culmination of a turbulent period for Windsurf, and indicates that agentic IDEs have become a new ...
The Prompt: Windsurf Acquisition Is The Latest Salvo In The Battle For AI Talent
In a surprising move, Cognition– the makers of autonomous coding tool Devin— acquired what was left of its rival Windsurf ...
Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’
Cognition CEO Scott Wu and interim Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang said they would start by integrating the AI-powered engineer Devin ...
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Google hires Windsurf team in a bid to boost AI coding projects
Google hired Windsurf’s core team and licensed its AI tech for $2.4B to support agentic coding in DeepMind’s Gemini project.
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Windsurf To Be Acquired by Devin AI Coding Agent Maker Cognition After Key Founders, Researchers Jump Ship To Google
Artificial intelligence (AI) coding startup Windsurf announced Monday that it was being acquired by Cognition, an AI peer ...
AI startup Windsurf sold to AI engineer Devin’s maker Cognition just days after OpenAI acquisition fails and Google ‘poaches’ CEO
Windsurf faces acquisition by Cognition AI. This follows a collapsed deal with OpenAI. Google hired Windsurf's CEO Varun ...