Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable
Alex Stamos joins Cognition to make AI security affordable

Alex Stamos has joined Cognition, the maker of the Devin AI coding agent, as its chief information security officer. He announced the move in an article on X on Tuesday, titled “Why I’m joining Cognition”. “There are real safety and security issues rai…

OpenAI’s agents can now run entirely inside Amazon’s cloud
OpenAI’s agents can now run entirely inside Amazon’s cloud

Companies can now build OpenAI agents that run entirely inside Amazon Web Services, with their data never leaving AWS. OpenAI and Amazon launched Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 event in San Francisco on Tuesday. The …

OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay
OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay

Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with OpenAI’s commitment not to reintroduce the five-hour limit on Pro 200. OpenAI is halving the usage included in its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan and launching a $500 plan with its fastest speed tier….

Automattic’s Mullenweg names a new board after the failed bid to oust him
Automattic’s Mullenweg names a new board after the failed bid to oust him

Automattic chief executive Matt Mullenweg has named a new board, weeks after the previous directors tried to put him on leave. The board includes science-fiction author Hugh Howey and two co-founders of the defunct social app IRL, Sarah Perez reported …

Autoheal raises $7.9M to build a self-improving software factory
Autoheal raises $7.9M to build a self-improving software factory

AI is helping engineering teams ship more code, faster than ever. But that acceleration comes with a growing operational burden. More production incidents to respond to, more security vulnerabilities to remediate, and spiraling token costs to contain. …

Hackers exploited a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the patch
Hackers exploited a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the patch

Attackers began exploiting a critical WordPress flaw within hours of the fix. The bug, CVE-2026-87902, can let an attacker with no login run code on a website’s server. It only works under certain conditions. WordPress fixed the flaw in version 7.1.2 o…

Microsoft’s new Copilot app adds coding and an always-on Autopilot agent
Microsoft’s new Copilot app adds coding and an always-on Autopilot agent

Microsoft has launched a new version of its Copilot app that puts AI chat, coding and long-running agents in one place for work. Jared Spataro, its chief marketing officer for AI at Work, announced it in a blog post on Friday. Chief executive Satya Nad…

Lovable says two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use it and revenue hit $600m
Lovable says two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use it and revenue hit $600m

Two-thirds of the Fortune 500 are using Lovable, co-founder Fabian Hedin said, often because staff found the tool on their own. Those companies then come to Lovable with thousands of apps and ask what to do, he said. Hedin, Lovable’s chief technology o…

“We’re way past vibes”: Lovable’s Anton Osika on who should build software
“We’re way past vibes”: Lovable’s Anton Osika on who should build software

“We’re way past vibes,” Lovable co-founder and chief executive Anton Osika said at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. He was answering critics who say software built with AI by people outside engineering is a security risk. Osika spok…

Cognition’s valuation doubled in 15 weeks. So did its revenue, and the multiple barely moved.
Cognition’s valuation doubled in 15 weeks. So did its revenue, and the multiple barely moved.

Cognition raised over $2bn at a $48bn valuation, up from $26bn in May. Run-rate revenue rose from $492m to almost $900m over the same period. Both rounds price the company at roughly 53 times run-rate revenue, so the multiple did not expand. Cognition …