Ashwin Ramaswami

Cursor is now on your phone and on the web. Spin off dozens of agents and review them later in your editor.

Today, we’re announcing @TrustVanta's Series D and new valuation – $4.15 billion – led by @Wellington_Mgmt alongside @sequoia, @ycombinator, @CrowdStrike, @GoldmanSachs, @jpmorgan, @craft_ventures, and @Atlassian. Vanta’s mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust.

Lawyers are expensive, but *looking* like you have a lawyer is free. Today, I'm happy to announce my latest project, Heavyweight! Heavyweight lets you take any complaint you have, and make it look like a scary legal document without ever actually claiming to be from a lawyer.

The way agents use the internet is broken. They don't have access to your accounts, they're blocked on half of all websites, & they take hours to set up. Today, we're introducing @CompositeAI - the agent that connects to your browser to automate your mundane tasks.

Update: I joined @AnthropicAI to lead AI for State & Local Government! aka making government better with Claude :) Last year I met 20K+ voters running for office in SF. One of those was @DanielaAmodei, President & co-founder of Anthropic 🧵

I'm joining @eriktorenberg at @a16z on the new media team. Our mission: curate the most important conversations in technology (via podcasts, writing, and group chats), capture our world as it transforms, and write the history of the future in advance. If that compels you, DM me.

.@StanfordCRFM's Marin project has released the first fully open model in JAX. It’s an 'open lab' sharing the entire research process - including code, data, and logs, to enable reproducibility and further innovation. developers.googleblog.com/en/stanfords-m…

🚨 applications are open for the fifth batch of @conviction's batch program 🚨 Embed is a Schelling Point for the highest quality early-stage founders in AI: offering $150K cash, $500K+ compute, community and a catalyst to start a startup

AI-ready data, all under one roof. 🏠☁️💰 Introducing preview of Amazon S3 Vectors—the first cloud object store with built-in vector support. Store vectors at scale with up to 90% total savings and query with ease, all in one place. #AWS #AWSSummit 👉 go.aws/3GPkqKx

New from our security teams: Our AI agent Big Sleep helped us detect and foil an imminent exploit. We believe this is a first for an AI agent - definitely not the last - giving cybersecurity defenders new tools to stop threats before they’re widespread.

Cognition has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf. The acquisition includes Windsurf’s IP, product, trademark and brand, and strong business. Above all, it includes Windsurf’s world-class people, whom we’re privileged to welcome to our team. We are also honoring…

x.com/i/article/1944…

Update: @cluely filed a DMCA takedown for my tweet about their system prompt, alleging that it contained "proprietary source code" Making legal threats against security researchers is not a good look, and I encourage Cluely to reflect on this and open doors to researchers. 🧵

I reverse engineered @cluely – and their desktop source code exposes their entire system prompts and models used. What's inside? 🧵

A Farewell Message from Dean William M. Treanor 💙

My PhD materials are now available! Dissertation: arxiv.org/abs/2506.23123 Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/13N2FRW… Folks should read the acknowledgements since so many people have been so important to me along this journey!

Excited to share I have joined the eclectic team at @Lux_Capital. Grateful for my time at Cerebras with Andrew and a team who showed me the vision, grit, and adaptability it takes to build a generational AI semiconductor company. The same curiosity that drew me from the Senate…