Windsurf whirlwind 💸

Unpacking the Windsurf drama 🎭️

OpenAI is no longer acquiring AI coding startup Windsurf, and the story’s moving faster than a plot line from Silicon Valley. Here’s where things stand:

• The OpenAI deal is off. OpenAI was in talks to acquire Windsurf for a reported $3 billion in what would have been its largest acquisition to date. But OpenAI’s exclusivity window to acquire Windsurf closed on Friday.

• Windsurf’s CEO and top researchers went to Google. In one fell swoop, Google hired Windsurf’s CEO Varun Mohan, cofounder Douglas Chen, and several R&D employees to join DeepMind on alignment and model safety. Google will hand over $2.4 billion in licensing fees and for compensation.

• Cognition scooped up the rest. After the hiring craze, AI agent startup Cognition (remember its AI software developer, Devin?) announced it had acquired Windsurf’s product, IP, and remaining 250-person team. Windsurf interim CEO Jeff Wang said Cognition's acquisition will help engineers 100x their productivity. Cognition didn’t announce the acquisition price…but did note that Windsurf reached $82 million in ARR, with enterprise ARR doubling quarter-over-quarter.

Windsurf is now a full-stack coding contender. With Windsurf, Cognition can now offer both agentic tools and a full-fledged IDE, competing directly with Cursor, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

Meta’s voice and compute power grab

Two big headlines dropped from Meta this week, both pointing in the same direction: control the stack.

First: Meta acquired voice AI startup Play AI, known for generating natural-sounding speech.  An internal memo seen by from Bloomberg says Play’s tech will support AI Characters, Meta AI, wearables, and audio creation, bringing voice generation fully in-house and positioning Meta to compete directly with ElevenLabs.

Next: Meta is building a five-gigawatt AI data center. On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg announced “Hyperion,” a data center project as big as the entirety of Manhattan. Prometheus, Meta’s 1 GW cluster, comes online in 2026. Together, these power projects could make Meta one of the most compute-rich players in AI—on par with Google and OpenAI.

The GOP is going all-in on AI infrastructure

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Sen. Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania announced $70 billion in AI and energy investments for the state. 

What happened? The inaugural Pennsylvania Energy and Innovation Summit brought together 60+ CEOs and top federal officials to announce a wave of new investments in data centers, power generation, and AI workforce development.

This includes:

• $25 billion from Blackstone for data centers and power infrastructure in Northeast PA

• The creation of 9,000 jobs across construction and permanent roles

• Federal backing from the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and the Interior

Is Being the ‘Face of the Brand’ Spreading You Thin?

Have a product to promote but dread stepping in front of the camera? Invideo AI 4.0 lets your doppelganger do it for you. Just upload a short clip to create your own AI Twin, or choose from a cast of virtual actors—Invideo handles the visuals, voiceover, and polish.

From brand explainers to product demos, Invideo lets you:

• Launch videos fast with your AI avatar

• Clone your product with a single image or link

• Generate multilingual, on-brand content instantly

Ready to scale visibility without stretching your schedule?

Turn unstructured text into polished content

Mythic Text transforms markdown or unformatted writing into structured blog posts, newsletters, and marketing assets. One Slashdot reviewer noted it can process "hundreds of files in minutes" for enterprise document pipelines. 

How you can use it:

• Explore setups like using n8n to pull AI content from a Google Sheet, format it with MythicText, and send it to WordPress or Google Docs to reduce manual editing and speed up publishing.

• Integrate it with Relevance AI to generate clean technical docs in JSON or PDF from internal model output.

Pricing: Free and paid (starting at $29/month)

AI browser automation can do your research for you

BrowserAct lets you automate scraping, clicking, and data extraction on any website using plain English. It adapts to changing page layouts and mimics human behavior to bypass verification.

How you can use it:

• Build targeted lead lists by scraping public LinkedIn profiles and pushing them into Sheets or a CRM.

• Set up agents to monitor competitor pricing, product copy, or ad changes—and track the trends over time.

• Use geo-targeted IPs to explore regional sentiment by pulling review data from international marketplaces.

Pricing: Paid