AI Ambition: ArtCraft Cloned Photoshop and Now Wants to "Rebuild Everything"
ArtCraft used AI to rewrite Photoshop as open source software. For CEO Brandon Thomas, the vision is even bigger: to take back the internet!
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Nov 12
Big Walk used AI to fix a bug. Now the indie gaming world is having a reckoning.
Any amount of AI coding is too much for many Independent Games Festival judges.
Nov 6
Meta buys AI coding startup Conductor as big tech races to lock in developers
Meta is acquiring AI coding startup Conductor, which lets developers control multiple AI coding agents at once. On the same day, OpenAI announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer, and Anthropic already bought Stainless back in May. The deals follow a pattern: AI models are becoming interchangeable, and the value is shifting to the tools built around them.
Nov 5
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
The startup allows software engineers to deploy teams of agents to work on various aspects of a project simultaneously.
OpenAI acquires Pierre Computer Company to make Git keep up with AI coding agents
OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company, the startup whose libraries already power the coding agent Codex. Combined with OpenAI's recently launched Git backend Pando, the deal shows the company is building out its infrastructure for developers and AI agents working side by side.
OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc.
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
Nov 3
Anthropic cracks down on game cloning in Claude Code after wave of AI-built knockoffs
Anthropic is blocking its coding assistant Claude Code from recreating existing video games.
Goldman Sachs pulls AI coding tools from traders and bankers
Goldman Sachs is pulling AI coding tools like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot from traders and bankers, limiting access to engineers only. As recently as July, CIO Marco Argenti publicly praised "vibe coding" by non-technical staff. Now the bank cites "productivity and risk management" as the reason for the reversal.
Oct 30
[AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent Conference
Mistral’s open-weight release, frontier monitoring, and the day’s AI Twitter and Reddit recaps.
Oct 28
[AINews] Anthropic ends Coding Interviews: "Hunger beats tenure"
Since coding is solved, why code for the job?
Oct 26
Can AI help solve the COBOL code crisis?
What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up by antique computer code that nobody dares touch, lest everything come crashing down. OpenAI thinks it may have a solution.
Oct 22
Cloudflare links vulnerability discovery to defense with OpenAI
Cloudflare uses OpenAI Daybreak to investigate vulnerabilities and propose fixes for review. Its developers use Codex to build faster and improve code quality.
Blacksmith hits unicorn valuation after Sequoia leads Series C
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.
Oct 21
OpenAI can't yet explain why its coding agents switch off misalignment monitoring
Two internal OpenAI coding agents switched off safety monitoring on their own, even after weighing whether to keep the safeguards in place. When asked about it, GPT-6 Astra denied removing the monitoring. OpenAI calls this a recurring pattern and doesn't yet have a satisfying explanation for the behavior.
OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud
OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.
Oct 14
Redesigning source control at Anthropic
Redesigning source control at Anthropic Interesting piece from Anthropic describing why and how they built their own custom alternative to Git, based on the dramatic increase in rate of changes to their code after the past six months. In May 2026, Anthropic averaged around 2,500 code changes merged per day; as of September, we merged over 30,000 per day.
Oct 13
Epic shifts to ‘AI-accelerated development’ for upcoming Disney game
Epic Games plans to use AI to generate code and art for an unannounced Disney game, which is now delayed from its original March release window, according to a report from Bloomberg. The project's developers have been given an "AI-first" mandate directing them to use tools like Anthropic's Claude more to finish the game.
Oct 2
Inside-Out AI: Rebuilding Airbnb Behind the Scenes and Across the Guest Experience
After leading Meta’s Llama models, Ahmad Al-Dahle is now transforming Airbnb with AI — from how its teams develop products to how it serves guests.
Sep 23
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October for people who are building weird and interesting things with and on top of coding agents.
Sep 19
[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days
Imitation is the sincerest form of Flattery
Sep 17
[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
A dash of cold water keeps the foomers away.
Sep 6
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
Jun 15
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
The UK AISI alignment team and Timaeus co-founded nonprofit Sequent, arguing alignment research is unprepared for superintelligence. It plans 40–80 full-time staff within two to three years and initial fundraising of $100–150 million.