Before we get to today’s column about Cognition buying Windsurf, Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday spoke to Jessica Lessin, our editor in chief, for the inaugural episode of TITV, a new daily tech show,

Bay Area tech companies are battling to build popular, useful artificial intelligence — and the fight just ripped apart a startup. Windsurf, an AI company based in Mountain View, began last week as a reported $3 billion acquisition target for OpenAI.

Cognition CEO Scott Wu and interim Windsurf CEO Jeff Wang said they would start by integrating the AI-powered engineer Devin into Windsurf

Microcap Cognition Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CGTX) has skyrocketed 35% in Thursday trading after stating the company had a positive end-of-phase 2 meeting with the U.S. FDA for the oral Alzheimer's asset zervimesine and sees a path forward for a phase 3 program.

Goldman Sachs just hired its first AI coder: Goldman is the first major bank to try out Cognition's agentic AI coder, Devin, signaling a seismic shift in how finance works alongside software https://t.co/5CEvbmAPWX pic.twitter.com/Yngj54XCyF — Quartz (@qz) July 11, 2025