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Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’

July 21, 2025
Autonomous AI coding startup Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the AI developer tools startup best known for its agentic integrated development environment (IDE). The two companies made the announcement on their respective X accounts on Monday. No acquisition amount was disclosed publicly, nor were specific terms of the deal (both are private startups). The…
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Salesforce used AI to cut support load by 5% — but the real win was teaching bots to say ‘I’m sorry’

July 21, 2025
Salesforce has crossed a significant threshold in the enterprise AI race, surpassing 1 million autonomous agent conversations on its help portal — a milestone that offers a rare glimpse into what it takes to deploy AI agents at massive scale and the surprising lessons learned along the way. The achievement, confirmed by company executives in exclusive interviews with VentureBeat, comes just nine…
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Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests

July 18, 2025
Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, the company announced Thursday. The financing comes just one month after the six-founder team graduated from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, underscoring investor appetite for infrastructure plays in the rapidly expanding…
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Agent With Full PC & App Access

July 18, 2025
OpenAI isn’t letting the delay of its open source AI model slow it down on shipping other features. Today, the company is unveiling ChatGPT agent, a feature that allows its AI chatbot to autonomously browse the web, conduct extensive research, download and create new files…
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Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID

July 17, 2025
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that competes with Google and ChatGPT, has partnered with identity verification company SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium service to more than 264 million students worldwide, the companies announced Monday. The deal tackles a key challenge for AI companies: providing educational access to expensive tools while preventing discount fraud.
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