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Graphite

Developer-tools company behind a code review platform built around stacked pull requests; acquired by Cursor's maker Anysphere in December 2025.

Known aliases

  • graphite heat spreader
  • pencil lead

Current stories

productOne report1 publisher

Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says withholding updates is how the spyware maker cuts off abusers

Paragon CEO Andrew Boyd says the spyware maker can't see who customers target, and withheld updates leave a customer's system ineffective in about 12 hours. Its zero-tolerance misuse policy depends on outside researchers to find abuse before that slow cutoff comes into play.

Publishers:wired.com

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+45
Incentives65
Confidence55
buildConfirmed5 publishers

Cursor ships a code host; GitHub goes dark for 402 minutes the same day

Origin's staged beta and a six-hour-42-minute GitHub incident landed in the same news cycle. The useful takeaway is not a migration plan, it is knowing where your code lives when the host is gone.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 45%
Operator
Operator 30%
Investor
Investor 25%

Reality

Evidence64
Adoption10
Hype gap+30
Incentives50
Confidence60
buildOne report1 publisher

The scope you grant at install decides whether an AI reviewer can block a merge

Qodo's five-agent comparison ranks Qodo first and publishes no method behind the grades, while Graphite's own integration guide lists four ways to wire a reviewer into GitHub and only one of them owns merge protection.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence42
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+32
Incentives70
Confidence46
buildOne report1 publisher

Origin inherits GitHub's read list for every repo a developer syncs into Cursor

Cursor's new Git host keeps GitHub as the source of truth for synced repos while holding a browsable copy next to its agents. The only org-level control described at launch is an Enterprise opt-out.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption20
Hype gap+12
Incentives60
Confidence45
productOne report1 publisher

AI detectors hand content teams a percentage where they wanted a decision

Pangram scored a Wall Street Journal guest column as entirely machine-written, the author cheerfully agreed, and the paper answered with a test about the author's standing rather than the text. Semafor puts the flagged share of op-eds at about 3%.

Publishers:fastcompany.com

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption45
Hype gap+22
Incentives55
Confidence46
buildOne report1 publisher

Cursor ships Origin default-on to every paid seat

Origin is in early beta, and the man who leads it says it does nothing GitHub does not, which makes the sync design and the default-on switch the parts of this launch worth an engineering leader's afternoon.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption31
Hype gap+37
Incentives63
Confidence42
scienceOne report1 publisher

Graphene from dead phones, newspaper and tap water: the cost floor moves, the proof does not

A published test blended graphite from electronic waste with old newspaper and tap water into usable graphene. Confirming what came out of the blender still needed a university lab.

Publishers:phys.org

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+14
Incentives62
Confidence40
investOne report1 publisher

Cursor ships Origin to paying users as GitHub's outage count reaches 257

Origin keeps GitHub as the source of truth. That is both the reason engineering orgs can try it this quarter and the reason it is not yet an exit.

Reality

Evidence38
Adoption22
Hype gap+32
Incentives68
Confidence34