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OpenAI’s GPT-5 Shines in Coding Tasks  The Information OpenAI’s GPT-5 is coming in early August, per sources  Axios OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August, The Verge reports  Reuters OpenAI DevDay is back and bigger than ever  OpenAI OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August  The Verge Source link

Stockholm-based Lovable has hit over $100 million in annualized revenue in just eight months by using AI to enable millions of non-coders to instantly turn their ideas into websites, apps and online side hustles. Oskar Munck af Rosenschöld never planned to be in show business. But over a fika (coffee break) in Stockholm, Sweden, a film producer friend pitched him …

AI coding tool wipes production database, fabricates 4,000 users, and lies to cover its tracks  Cybernews SF tech CEO apologizes after AI bot wipes company’s code base — and lied about it  KRON4 Replit’s CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company’s code base in a test run and lied about it  Business Insider ‘I destroyed months of your work in seconds’ …

A venture capitalist wanted to see how far AI could take him in building an app. It was far enough to destroy a live production database. The incident unfolded during a 12-day “vibe coding” experiment by Jason Lemkin, an investor in software startups. Replit’s CEO apologized for the incident, in which the company’s AI coding agent deleted a code base …

The founder of SaaS business development outfit SaaStr has claimed AI coding tool Replit deleted a database despite his instructions not to change any code without permission. SaaStr runs an online community and events aimed at entrepreneurs who want to create SaaS businesses. On July 12th company founder Jason Lemkin blogged about his experience using a service called “Replit” that …

AI hasn’t yet killed the coding star. On Wednesday, a programmer from Poland, Przemysław Dębiak, beat an OpenAI tool at the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2025 Heuristic Contest in Tokyo, which is sponsored by the company. “I was so tired. I actually felt at some point that I should take a break,” Dębiak, who competed under the name “Psyho,” told …

While Dębiak won 500,000 yen and survived his ordeal better than the legendary steel driver, the AtCoder World Tour Finals pushes humans and AI models to their limits through complex optimization challenges that have no perfect solution—only incrementally better ones. Coding marathon tests human endurance against AI efficiency The AtCoder World Tour Finals represents one of competitive programming’s most exclusive …

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. …

Cognition, the startup behind the viral AI coding agent Devin, announced in a blog post on Monday that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AI coding startup Windsurf. The announcement comes just days after Google hired away Windsurf’s CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and research leaders in a $2.4 billion deal, a reverse-acquihire that left the rest …

Google has struck a licensing deal with coding startup Windsurf, upending OpenAI’s $3 billion offer to acquire the startup after the clock on the deal’s exclusivity period expired. The deal with Google means that Windsurf will continue to operate as an independent startup while key members of the team join Google, a source familiar with the matter told Fortune. “We’re …