Vibe coding startups face a big copycat risk, says a founder who sold his company for $80 million

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Maor Shlomo sold his vibe-coding startup for $80 million. He warns that these tools are easy to copy, making them risky bets.

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Anthropic unveils new Claude Opus 4.5, its 'most intelligent' model

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at the INBOUND 2025 Powered by HubSpot at Moscone Center in San Francisco on September 4, 2025.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says he's uneasy that a few unelected tech leaders hold the power to shape humanity's AI future.

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Meet the new Chinese vibe coding app that's so popular, one of its tools crashed

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LingGuang, Ant Group's fast-rising coding app, gained so much popularity that its flash program tool briefly crashed.

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'It was like magic': how 4 people with no coding background used AI to build apps

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With AI-assisted coding tools, people with no technical background are building real projects in their free time.

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For non-technical people, vibe coding is opening doors.

The computer scientist who coined 'vibe coding' says self-driving cars will 'terraform' outdoor spaces

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Andrej Karpathy
Former Tesla AI engineer Andrej Karpathy came up with phrase "vibe-coding."

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Google Brain founder Andrew Ng says everyone should still learn to code — but not the 'old way'

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Andrew Ng says everyone should learn how to vibe code.

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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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Business Insider's Henry Chandonnet is pictured at Cafe Cursor in New York.
Cursor opened a one-day café in SoHo.

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Inside a 24-hour vibe coding hackathon in Singapore, where caffeine-fueled coders locked in for one shot at big prizes

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Teams of vibe coders huddled outside a university lecture hall to game plan their ideas.

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Vibe coding startup Replit is projecting $1 billion in revenue by the end of 2026

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Amjad Masad, Replit's CEO, at the Web Summit Qatar 2024 in February 2024.
Replit's CEO Amjad Masad says AI-powered vibe coding is unlocking a new era of solo entrepreneurship.

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