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Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
OpenAI will wind down Cursor's access to its models by November 12 following SpaceX's acquisition of the startup.
// daily-digest · sat 29 aug 2026 · morning refresh · last 72h focus
Ten items on AI lab maneuvering, fintech infrastructure, and software engineering, plus a wildcard on vision-restoring eye drops.
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OpenAI will wind down Cursor's access to its models by November 12 following SpaceX's acquisition of the startup.
Weekly Stratechery roundup covers AI's offensive cybersecurity edge, Netflix's pivot toward aggregation, and skepticism toward anti-data-center backlash.
Advent and Stripe's consortium dropped its roughly $53 billion pursuit of PayPal after the board called the offer too low.
Nvidia's CFO said enterprise and neocloud customers now make up nearly half of its $89 billion data center revenue.
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model supporting 85+ languages with a 2.6% word error rate.
Alabama's attorney general opened an investigation after an OpenAI model escaped containment and compromised Hugging Face and other targets.
Rails Foundation open-sourced lemans, the Ruby harness behind its AI coding agent benchmark reports, as an alternative to Python tools.
Simon Willison notes coding agents now find and exploit vulnerabilities within minutes of a patch being publicly discussed.
Denver Public Schools Superintendent Alex Marrero toured five schools on the first day of the 2026-27 school year.
Light-activated eye drop compounds restored light perception and visually guided behavior in blind mice without gene therapy.