5 acquisitions, winning over skeptical engineers, and spending tens of millions: Inside a public company's 'AI native' push

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Amplitude has sent 'tens of billions' on its AI transformation.

Amplitude

Cursor's most important AI features started as side projects engineers built themselves, says its engineering head

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Some of Cursor's biggest AI features were bottom-up projects started by its engineers, says Jason Ginsberg.

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Microsoft reshuffles teams to bolster GitHub as AI coding and agent wars heat up

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Jay Parikh, CoreAI and engineering manager
Jay Parikh, CoreAI and engineering manager

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Are you a software engineer? Tell us what you think about vibe coding

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Engineers face a whole new set of AI vibe coding tools.

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Amplitude CEO says Sam Altman is the 'best salesperson of this generation, bar none'

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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AI is letting some workers quietly slack off — until their bosses catch on

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Software engineer Noah Olsen says he used AI to complete half of his workload -- without telling his boss.

Noah Olsen

Nvidia CEO told employees to use AI for 'every task that is possible' and says there will still be plenty of jobs

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Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang
Nvidia President and CEO Jensen Huang speaks to the media during the Nvidia GTC Conference on October 28, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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Cursor courted top engineers by flying across the world to meet them and making up dinners — even after they said no

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Anysphere cofounders, left to right: Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Sualeh Asif, and Michael Truell.
Anysphere cofounders, left to right: Aman Sanger, Arvid Lunnemark, Sualeh Asif, and Michael Truell.

Anysphere

I switched from a corporate career to launching an AI-native company with no tech background. I knew the time was now.

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Tim DeSoto was a senior director at Walmart. Now he's launching an AI-native startup.

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I went to Cursor's New York café. I saw coding bros, custom merch, and a potential job interview

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Cursor opened a one-day café in SoHo.

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