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Fascinating. Leaked LLM prompt instructions from most of the chat sites.
#AI

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Cognition acquires Windsurf, saying Windsurf employees will have vesting cliffs waived and receive fully accelerated vesting for their work to date (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/cognition-ai-windsurf.html

Cognition AI Buys Windsurf as A.I. Frenzy Escalates
The deal follows Google’s $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.

OpenAI übernimmt KI-Startup Windsurf, Chefs und Entwickler wechseln zu Google
Nachdem ihr bisheriger Arbeitgeber Windsurf von OpenAI übernommen wird, stoßen einige Beschäftigte nun zu Googles DeepMind-Team hinzu.

Sources: OpenAI and Windsurf talks ended after Windsurf raised concerns over how its tech would fit into OpenAI's agreement to share tech with Microsoft (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-windsurf-break-a…

Google to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Staff, IP After Startup Ends OpenAI Talks
OpenAI’s discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as Codeium, have ended. Instead, Google will hire Windsurf’s CEO, Varun Mohan, and some of the startup’s staff, both Google and Windsurf said. The monthslong talks between OpenAI ...

Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and its CEO is going to Google
Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google.

Große KI-Unternehmen wie #Anthropic und #OpenAI geraten zunehmend in Konflikt mit erfolgreichen Apps, die ihre Modelle nutzen.
Die populären Anwendungen #Windsurf und

Popular AI apps get caught in the crosshairs of Anthropic and OpenAI
OpenAI and Anthropic each made moves against two of the most popular AI-powered apps: Windsurf and Granola. Now, will more apps get caught in their crosshairs?

Nice summary of #Windsurf
#ai #chatgpt

Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang on what happened after co-founders Varun Mohan and Douglas Chen left for Google, and how Cognition's deal to acquire Windsurf unfolded (Jeff Wang/@jeffwsurf)
https://x.com/jeffwsurf/status/1946376139959841084

Jeff Wang (@jeffwsurf) on X
To put it mildly, the past week at Windsurf has been crazy. There have been a lot of different rumors and reports, so I want to share a transparent account of how it actually went down. Before I start, I just want to say that Varun and Douglas were great founders and this

Toward Inclusive AI-Driven Development: Exploring Gender Differences in Code Generation Tool Interactions
Manaal Basha, Ivan Beschastnikh, Gema Rodriguez-Perez, Cleidson R. B. de Souza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14770

Toward Inclusive AI-Driven Development: Exploring Gender Differences in Code Generation Tool Interactions
Context: The increasing reliance on Code Generation Tools (CGTs), such as Windsurf and GitHub Copilot, are revamping programming workflows and raising critical questions about fairness and inclusivity. While CGTs offer potential productivity enhancements, their effectiveness across diverse user groups have not been sufficiently investigated. Objectives: We hypothesize that developers' interactions with CGTs vary based on gender, influencing task outcomes and cognitive load, as prior research su…

Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan says Anthropic cut Windsurf's direct access to Claude models because of reports that OpenAI is acquiring Windsurf (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anth

Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: 'It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI' | TechCrunch
Anthropic's Jared Kaplan said the company largely cut Windsurf's direct access to Anthropic's Claude AI models because of rumors OpenAI is acquiring the startup.

OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/openai-windsurf-google/

An OpenAI Acquisition Turns Into a Google 'Hackqusition'...
A rough few weeks may signal some real talent trouble for OpenAI – at the worst possible time

The exclusivity period on OpenAI's $3B offer to acquire coding startup Windsurf has expired, which means that Windsurf is free to explore other options (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/07/11/the-exc

The exclusivity on OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition for AI coding startup Windsurf has expired
Windsurf is now free to explore other options.

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to its AI models, including the newest Claude 4 family and the highly popular Claude 3 models (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/windsurf-say…

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models | TechCrunch
The CEO of Windsurf, a popular AI-assisted coding tool, said Anthropic is limiting its direct access to certain AI models.

Acquihire deals like Google's Windsurf deal are a wake-up call for AI startup employees left behind, creating new uncertainty over leadership and compensation (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

Google will have a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf technology, but will not be taking a stake in the company (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/windsurfs-ceo-goes-to-google-openais-acquisition-falls-apart/

Windsurf's CEO goes to Google; OpenAI's acquisition falls apart | TechCrunch
Notably, Google is not taking a stake in Windsurf and will not have any control over the company.

Sources: Cognition, which makes the coding assistant Devin, is in talks to raise $300M at a $10B valuation; it was reportedly valued at $4B in March (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/

AI Coding Startup Cognition In Talks To Raise At $10 Billion Valuation
The deal, backed by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures, comes as the startup announced it is buying up the remains of rival Windsurf.

Sources: Google is paying $2.4B for a nonexclusive license to certain Windsurf tech and hire some of its employees, but won't be taking a stake in the company (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and CLI Codex, terminal-based AI tools launched since February, have surprisingly gained ground on AI code editors with traditional UIs (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/ai-coding-tools-a…

AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: the terminal | TechCrunch
For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software development. But as agentic AI grows more powerful and vibe-coding takes off, a subtle shift has changed how AI systems are interacting with software. Instead of working on code, they’re increasingly interacting directly with the shell of whatever system they’re installed in. It’s a significant change in how AI-powered software development happens – and despite the …

Mistral releases Mistral Code, a "vibe coding" client forked from open source project Continue, in private beta on JetBrains platforms and VS Code (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/mistral-releases-a-vibe-co…

Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code | TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own 'vibe coding' client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere's Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.