news Techcrunch Ai 2026-07-24

AI Startup Cognition Acquires Poke for AI Personality Development

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, an AI assistant known for its conversational style, for a nine-figure sum. The acquisition aims to integrate Poke's interactive capabilities into Cognition's Devin coding agent.

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