AI coding startup Cognition bought competitor Windsurf less than a month ago. Cognition is offering the 200-person team buyouts amounting to nine months’ salary — or stay and work 80-hour weeks.

Cognition, the AI coding startup that acquired rival company Windsurf three weeks ago, laid off 30 employees last week and is offering buyouts to the roughly 200 remaining employees on the team, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Cognition CEO Scott Wu is still reeling from the whirlwind weekend when his company acquired Windsurf.

Weeks after the revelation that Google paid Windsurf $2.4 billion to license its technology, while simultaneously hiring away its CEO and top talent, the deal’s implications are still rattling some ...