GitHub announced on August 12, 2026 that Agent Plugins 1.0 is generally available as a supported product feature in VS Code, Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot SDK, and the GitHub Copilot app on all Copi…
Windsurf has been rebranded as Devin Desktop following Cognition's acquisition, and Cursor became a SpaceX subsidiary on August 14, making the editor comparison obsolete. Claude Code, with annualized …
A New York Post report says the AI boom has created a record number of billionaires, with Forbes' 2026 list adding 45 new fortunes tied directly to AI ventures, fueling luxury spending on watches, hom…
SpaceX completed its $60 billion acquisition of AI startup Anysphere, maker of the Cursor code editor, making Cursor a wholly owned subsidiary. SpaceX's stock (SPCX) fell at the market open on the new…
SpaceX closed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor, the AI coding assistant built by Anysphere, on August 14, 2026, integrating the team into its SpaceXAI division. The deal, which makes Cu…
Cursor, the AI code editor developed by Anysphere, has been officially acquired by SpaceXAI, according to a16z. The acquisition positions the combined team to dominate the AI coding market, which a16z…
GitHub released Agent Plugins 1.0 on August 6, an open standard that packages agent skills and MCP servers into a single installable plugin, with support from AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel…
Cursor released a native iOS app on June 29, enabling users to launch and control cloud coding agents from their phones, with a Remote Control mode for local machines. The app, available only to paid …
Cursor and SpaceXAI launched Grok Bot on August 11th, extending Cursor's agent technology from software development into sales, support, recruiting, finance and other computer-based work. The early be…
AI coding agents have become so capable that a non-technical founder can ship a working product in a weekend, prompting venture capitalists to shift their focus from whether a startup has a technical …
Agent Plugins 1.0.0, an open, vendor-neutral standard for plugins that extend AI agents, is now publicly available. The format, initiated by Vercel and refined with AWS, Anysphere, GitHub, Microsoft, …
OpenAI announced on June 11 that it will acquire Ona, the German cloud startup formerly known as Gitpod, to integrate its cloud workspace technology into the Codex coding agent. Codex now has more tha…
Cursor, the AI coding company, open-sourced Mixture-of-Kittens (MoK) on August 4th, a GPU kernel that it claims increased end-to-end training throughput for its Composer models by 41% against its prev…
Cursor, the AI code editor developed by Anysphere, has removed token cost metrics from its usage dashboard and CSV export, leaving developers unable to track individual prompt spending. Users on the C…
House Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) and House Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Andrew R. Garbarino (R-NY) sent a letter to DoorDash co-Founder and CEO Tony Xu as part…
Cursor, launched by Anysphere in 2022, offers more accurate inline autocomplete with a 28–35% acceptance rate and a familiar VS Code experience, while Windsurf, formerly Codeium and rebranded in 2024,…
Cursor cut its India AI coding plan to $7 a month (₹649), the first time it has localized pricing anywhere, using its own models to keep the plan sustainable rather than a loss leader. The startup lau…
SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere, the company behind AI coding startup Cursor, in an all-stock deal valued at $60 billion, with the transaction expected to close in the third quarter of 2026 subject to r…
A 780 KB Rust proxy called cursor-bridge lets users run Anthropic's Claude Code against Cursor's backend, billed to their Cursor subscription instead of a separate Claude plan. The tool, which hit Hac…
A new open-source Rust binary called cursor-bridge lets Cursor subscription users run Anthropic's Claude Code CLI for free on Cursor's backend, eliminating separate API costs. The tool, available via …