Tag: Cursor
Cursor’s Composer 2.5 Brings Smarter, More Reliable AI Coding Agents
AI-assisted coding tools are getting a meaningful upgrade. Cursor has released Composer 2.5, the latest version of its proprietary coding agent model, and the improvements go well beyond a version bump. Composer ...
When AI Goes Really, Really Wrong: How PocketOS Lost All Its Data
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | | AI agent, AI coding agent, AI safety, Anthropic, Anthropic Claude, autonomous agents, backups, Claude, Cloud Security, Cursor, data loss, PocketOS, RailwayYou can't make this crap up. You just wish you could. Jer Crane, founder of the small vertical software company, PocketOS, reported on X that the AI Cursor coding agent and a ...
Musk’s SpaceX Targets AI Dominance with $60 Billion Cursor Deal
Jon Swartz | | acquisition, Andreessen Horowitz, Anthropic, AWS, Colossus supercomputer, Composer model, Cursor, Elon Musk, google, H100 chips, hyperscalers, IPO, microsoft, neocloud, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Sam Altman, SEC, SpaceX, The New York Times, vibe coding, xAIElon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal with artificial intelligence (AI) coding sensation Cursor that gives SpaceX the right to acquire the startup for $60 billion later this year or, alternatively, pay ...
Eclipse Foundation Unfurls Managed VSX Registry Service
Mike Vizard | | AI coding tools, AWS, Cursor, Eclipse Foundation, google, infrastructure funding, managed services, open source, Open VSX Registry, scalability, software engineering, VS Code extensionsThe Eclipse Foundation launches a paid Open VSX Managed Registry to help industry partners sustainably fund the infrastructure behind VS Code extensions ...
OpenAI Bolsters AI Coding with Acquisition of Python Toolmaker Astral
Jon Swartz | | Anthropic, Astral, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cybersecurity, google, health care, I/O, Jony Ive, open-source developer tools, OpenAI, Promptfoo, Python, Sam Altman, software engineers, TorchOpenAI announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement to acquire Astral, the startup behind some of Python community’s most popular open-source developer tools. The acquisition marks further escalation in the rapidly ...
Cursor Acquires Graphite to Streamline AI-Powered Development
Jon Swartz | | acquisition, AI and cybersecurity, AI coding, Anthropic, Cursor, Figma, GitHub Copilot, Graphite, Koala, OpenAI, Perplexity AI, Snowflake, spotify, SupermavenCursor, the artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant valued at $29 billion, has acquired code review startup Graphite to address what Cursor CEO Michael Truell describes as a growing bottleneck in software development ...
How Software Engineers and Students Use AI to Move Faster than Ever (Without Breaking Things)
Vivek Vaidya | | agentic AI, AI adoption, AI and students, AI coding tools, AI collaboration, AI engineers, AI evolution, AI in education, AI in software development, AI in universities, AI innovation, AI revolution, AI skills, AI skills gap, AI startups, AI Tools for Developers, AI transformation, AI workforce adaptation, AI-native companies, AI-native design, AI-native learning, AI-powered development, AI/ML, artificial intelligence, augmented development, augmented intelligence, Cursor, developer productivity, digital transformation, Enterprise AI, future of work, human-AI collaboration, LLMs, machine learning, super{set}, VC investment in AIWe’re living through the AI revolution — or more accurately, the age of augmented intelligence. From agentic AI tools transforming software development to AI-native education shaping the next generation, super{set} explores how ...
Oasis Security Identifies Security Weakness in Cursor AI Coding Tool
Oasis Security this week warned application developers of a security flaw in the Cursor artificial intelligence (AI) code editor developed by Anysphere, Inc. that potentially could be used to allow a maliciously ...
GitHub CEO To Step Down As Company Is More Tightly Embraced by Microsoft’s CoreAI Team
Thomas Dohmke, CEO of Microsoft Corp.-owned GitHub, said on Monday he’s stepping down and will leave the company at the end of 2025 to become “a founder again,” signaling a major shakeup ...
Free Tiers and Open Source LLMs – Mana for Developers, Platform Engineers and QA
Mitch Ashley | | AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini 2.5, GitHub Actions, GitHub Agent, Google Cloud, Google Cloud AI Studio, GPT-5, gpt‑oss, Llama 3, microsoft, Mistral, Mixtral, open source LLM, OpenAI, VS Code, WindsurfDevelopment rarely follows one straight path. You sketch ideas, prototype, test, swap tools, iterate, and repeat. The increasing availability of free, limited-use AI tiers and locally run open-source AI LLMs is accelerating ...
OpenAI in Talks to Buy Windsurf for $3 Billion: Report
OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf for about $3 billion, a move that would put it in competition with AI coding assistant providers ...
