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Cursor is an AI-powered code editor and agent platform from Anysphere that helps developers write, review, and automate code via chat and autonomous agents.
Symantec says new Aoki infostealer versions steal API keys and tokens for AI coding assistants, plus AWS credentials, from infected machines. The firm says threat actors now value such credentials like payment card data.
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Google prices Gemini 4 Argon at $2 input and $10 output per 1M tokens through Nov 30, then $4 and $20. Budgets built on the launch rates fall short by half from December 1, on figures a dev.to guide takes from Google's pricing page.
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Uber says 84% of its developers were agentic coding users as of March 2026, according to figures it gave The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter. AI-related costs at the company are up 6x since 2024, the same piece reports.
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Groundcover opened its observability data to outside coding agents such as Claude and Codex through MCP tools and asynchronous Agent Tasks. A coding agent that cannot see past deployment can now pass a production question to a specialist agent.
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Scuba emerged from stealth with $34 million across a pre-seed led by Accel and a seed co-led by Accel and IVP. One deal backing two ex-Slack founders is thin evidence that investors are still funding shared-context layers.
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xAI is folding SuperGrok, X Premium and Cursor into one subscription priced from about $8 to $200 a month, two outlets report. Cryptopolitan describes a Monday announcement; Crypto Briefing says the prices are leaks X had not confirmed by Oct. 11-12.
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Novamira's free WordPress plugin lets Claude Code, Cursor or Codex run PHP, WP-CLI, database queries and file edits on a site. According to a dev.to review, Novamira itself says only the operator's attention stands between the agent and production.
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Z.ai's ZCode app uploaded workspace snapshots to Alibaba Cloud, and 86.6 percent of one 313 MB example was .git data, a teardown found. Z.ai deleted the bucket on 20 September, and nobody can audit what happened to anything uploaded before 18 September, the write-up says.
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Crossmint launched a live, self-serve toolkit that takes an agent's card from storage to checkout in one integration, The Paypers reported. Developers who now assemble several vendors for agent payments would hand all of it, including the job of tracing a failed purchase, to one.
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Aptos shipped an MCP server, LLMs.txt feeds and agent skills so AI coding assistants can read Move documentation directly, cryptobriefing.com reported. The only quality control it describes is a set of skills for audits and tests.
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Cursor turned on Remote Control by default for every non-Enterprise account on 6 October, so a phone can steer an agent working on the user's own computer. Its docs put the agent loop in Cursor's cloud and the tools on that computer, and that split ties the feature to cloud data storage and to a laptop left awake and plugged in.
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SpaceXAI lists Grok 4.7 at $2 and $6 per million tokens against $10 and $50 for GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1, and the only per-task figures in the record put a Cursor run at $4.69 against about $9.
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The arithmetic on Anysphere is twenty times recurring revenue for a four-year-old company, which is what SpaceX decided agentic coding was worth after eleven xAI co-founders left and 45 Cursor staff followed.
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Elon Musk said SpaceX's Grok Bot agent will send each task to the best back-end model, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 included. The policy moves the engineering work into routing, and into the tests that decide what 'best' means for each task.
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Obada Kraishan of Texas Tech tracked 37,623 GitHub pull requests and found 90-day revert rates of 6.1% for OpenAI Codex and 14.5% for Devin. A pooled 'AI code' rate from that sample mostly measures Codex, so each tool needs its own numbers.
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Elon Musk said on October 7th that Grok Bot will hand tasks to outside models including Claude Opus 5.5, Midjourney and Suno. For an agent holding credentials and company records, each routing choice also picks which company receives that data.
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Spendesk's analysis finds 72% of businesses using AI pay for two or more competing tools, as AI spending rose 340% in a year. The figures argue for settling who owns each AI bill before deciding which overlapping tools to cut.
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Tuskira released AI Agent Gateway, a free open-source proxy that holds AI agents' tool credentials and checks every call against a profile. A stolen agent config then yields only a gateway key, and that key is limited only if the operator bound it to a profile.
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JetBrains posted a CZK 315 million net loss in 2025, its first on record, on revenue that grew 6.3% to $710 million. Figures published on dev.to put the strain in costs, so teams on its IDEs should watch how JetBrains prices the AI agent it now ships in all of them.
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Venture-backed AI companies bought 195 AI startups through Sept. 29, Crunchbase data shows, 14% more than all of 2025, while buyers rose just 2%. The same companies are buying more often, so sellers face a pool of acquirers that has barely grown.
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