Cloud Startup Render Raises $100M at $1.5B Valuation as AI-Built Apps Boom
Render secures funding to expand easy-to-use cloud infrastructure as AI-generated applications drive demand among 4.5 million developers.
Render secures funding to expand easy-to-use cloud infrastructure as AI-generated applications drive demand among 4.5 million developers.
Largest developer tooling seed round ever backs Thomas Dohmke's open-source platform for managing AI agent-generated software at $300M valuation.
Apple integrates AI agents directly into Xcode 26.3, enabling developers to use Claude Agent and OpenAI Codex for building, testing, and debugging via Model Context Protocol.
OpenAI enhances its Responses API with server-side compaction, hosted shell containers, and agent skills standard for building long-running autonomous AI agents.
Google Cloud introduces the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program, offering developers 35 monthly learning credits, hands-on training, and certification pathways to build production-ready AI agents using the Agent Development Kit and Gemini Enterprise platform.
Anthropic introduces a fast mode for Claude Opus 4.6 that delivers responses up to 2.5 times faster, revolutionizing AI-powered software development and coding workflows.
GitHub introduces Agent HQ, enabling developers to run multiple AI coding agents including Copilot, Claude, and Codex directly in their workflow.
Anthropic announces that Apple's Xcode 26.3 now supports the Claude Agent SDK, enabling developers to leverage autonomous AI coding capabilities including visual verification, project-wide reasoning, and autonomous task execution directly within the IDE.
OpenAI introduces Codex app for macOS, a powerful interface for managing multiple AI agents simultaneously, running parallel tasks, and collaborating over long-running development projects with built-in skills system and automations.
From LangChain to Hugging Face Transformers, these 16 open-source projects are providing the foundational tools and frameworks that are accelerating innovation in AI and machine learning.