Coding tools are becoming an increasingly big target for Google and Microsoft as they try to catch Anthropic and OpenAI in the red-hot market. Microsoft is gearing up for coding-related announcements ...

OpenAI announced it will acquire Ona, a startup that provides cloud environments for AI agents. Ona's technology will allow OpenAI's coding assistant, Codex, to take on longer-running tasks, OpenAI ...

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round led by Greylock’s Jerry Chen. That’s a modest sum by AI standards, but the startup, founded by two former early Datadog engineers, ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 3: Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled "Transforming Business through AI" in Tokyo, Japan, on February ...

The AI coding market has organized itself around a fundamental question about where human judgment belongs in the software development loop. On one side sits the IDE-first bet: keep the engineer in ...

Engineering teams building agentic coding pipelines now have a concrete open-source alternative to managed models like Claude Fable 5 — one that runs on a single H100. The tradeoff: Cohere's North ...

In 2026, you cannot pry AI coding tools out of developers’ vise grip, researchers have discovered. But while AI is undoubtedly helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, ...

The fight between OpenAI and Anthropic for control of AI-assisted coding has turned into open commercial warfare. OpenAI is offering enterprises two months of free Codex usage to switch off rival ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...

Microsoft used its Build 2026 developer conference on Tuesday to announce a new family of in-house AI models, alongside a slew of other news. The announcements, delivered during CEO Satya Nadella's ...