Cognition released FrontierCode 2.0, a private coding benchmark with 132 real open-source repository tasks scored by whether maintainers would merge the changes. Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 46%, while DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is the top open-weights model at 28%.
Pylon (usepylon) and Cognition announced a partnership to launch an AI coding capability that can automatically fix bugs and build features after customers submit issues.
Factory CEO Grinberg said he removed board advisor Chris Degnan, accusing him of leaking confidential information to competitor Cognition; Degnan then announced he had joined Cognition as chief revenue officer, denying he was fired and saying he resigned voluntarily.
Cognition announced SWE-2, saying it matches recent frontier models on leading benchmarks at up to 70% lower cost, achieved by scaling reinforcement learning to trillions of parameters.
Cognition announced a deepened partnership with AWS to help customers modernize faster on existing infrastructure, allowing enterprises to focus more on driving their business forward.