Google has struck a licensing deal with coding startup Windsurf, upending OpenAI’s $3 billion offer to acquire the startup ...

Google, while not investing in Windsurf, will take a nonexclusive license to certain technologies of the AI coding startup.

Google wants its AI models to become bigger in coding. It has now hired the CEO of one of the top startups in that area.

OpenAI’s discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as ...

In a stunning reversal, Google has hired Windsurf's CEO and key talent, collapsing OpenAI's planned $3B acquisition and ...

There seem to be more twists and turns in AI corporate maneuvers than a Hollywood potboiler. OpenAI's rumoured acquisition of ...

Competition is heating up in the artificial intelligence coding market, as the maker of coding assistant Cursor hired the two leaders of Anthropic’s rival coding product, Claude Code.But both AI firms ...

Anysphere, maker of AI coding assistant Cursor, is growing so quickly, it’s not in the market to be sold, even to OpenAI, a source close to the company tells TechCrunch. It’s been a hot target.

(Anysphere is often referred to by its product name, Cursor.) It turns out that OpenAI indeed approached Anysphere in 2024 and again earlier this year about a potential acquisition, according to a ...

OpenAI initially approached Anysphere, maker of the AI coding editor, Cursor, about an acquisition, but is now in talks to buy Windsurf.

OpenAI’s desire to move on to acquisition discussions with another coding assistant maker signals how important capturing a slice of the code generation market has become for the ChatGPT maker.