Cognition has released Code Scans, a Devin AI feature that lets engineers state a broad goal—like improving SEO or reducing maintenance overhead—and have the system investigate the codebase, evaluate findings, and generate pull requests automatically. It uses an 'Agentic MapReduce' architecture, the same one behind Devin Security Swarm, splitting large investigations into parallel batches and merging results into a single report before creating PRs. Early testers, including Philips' informatics team, report a 96% PR merge rate and over 700 engineering hours saved during trials.
devin.ai
· 2026-09-18
In a TechCrunch interview, Insight Partners co-CEO Devin Parekh discussed why the $90 billion firm has spread investments across sectors instead of concentrating heavily on frontier AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic, even though it holds stakes in both. He also addressed missed deals such as legal-tech startup Legora, conflicts of interest in venture capital, and downplayed fears of AI-driven catastrophic risk, citing potential medical breakthroughs as a greater upside.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-13
Researcher Eric Lu and Cognition's Devin AI coding agents built a new GPU-based lattice sieving tool and used it to factor RSA-260, a 260-digit number, beating the previous RSA Factoring Challenge record of RSA-250 set in 2020. The team says the approach runs factoring workloads at roughly 10 times lower cost than prior public methods.
cognition.com
· 2026-09-09
Cognition, maker of the AI coding assistant Devin, closed a $2 billion funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst and Avenir, pushing its valuation to $48 billion—up from $26 billion just four months earlier. The company says its annualized run-rate revenue nearly doubled since May, climbing from $492 million to $900 million.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-08
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