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Cursor Origin is on by default for paid users, and its data terms are unpublished

Cursor started rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later GitHub fell over. The order matters, because most of the internet reversed it. Matt Palmer works at Cursor. He quote-tweeted his own company’s launch with a line that then travelled further than the product. Cursor […]

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GitHub disputes Wiz’s claim that Copilot Autofix wrote a Snowflake flaw

A security company said on Monday that an AI wrote a critical flaw into Snowflake’s code, and that another AI found it and broke in. The second half holds up. The first half came apart in about eight hours. What is left is still worth your attention. It is just not the story that travelled. […]

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Greg Brockman says OpenAI underestimated its own models’ cyber skills

Greg Brockman went on CNBC on Monday to say the executive departures at OpenAI are not unusual. “I actually think that the difference between OpenAI and other organizations is that we are so much in the spotlight, so every departure gets scrutinized in a way that it doesn’t otherwise,” the company’s president told Squawk Box. […]

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Wispr raised $280mn at $2bn to argue the text box is finished

Wispr has raised $280mn at a $2bn valuation. Menlo Ventures led the round, having led the last one too. Total funding now stands at $361mn. The company makes Wispr Flow, a dictation app that turns speech into cleaned-up text in whatever application your cursor happens to be in. Reuters reports the previous round valued it […]

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An AI agent built a working exploit for this macOS flaw in four hours

A security company built working exploits for two pre-authentication root bugs in macOS. It took four hours. The firm, Calif, used an AI agent. It now withholds technical details of one of those bugs, CVE-2026-65400, until most Macs carry the patch. The reason is the speed. Producing the exploit was too easy. Attackers are using […]

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The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz over competing board seats

The US Justice Department is investigating Andreessen Horowitz. At issue is whether partners at the venture capital firm improperly sit on the boards of competing artificial intelligence companies. Bloomberg reported the investigation on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Those sources put the investigation at nearly a year old. Monday’s story is the first […]

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Aachen’s amber raised €7mn to sell AI sovereignty to the Mittelstand

Aachen-based amber has closed a €7mn Series A. Ventech co-led it with NRW.Venture, the venture arm of NRW.BANK. NRW.BANK is the development bank owned by the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. By the standards of this year’s AI rounds, €7mn is small. The argument behind it is not. amber connects and structures a company’s internal […]

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Higgsfield raised $400mn at $5.4bn, four times its January valuation

Higgsfield has raised $400mn at a $5.4bn valuation. DST Global led the round. Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, and Liberty Global Tech Ventures all took part, alongside Tribe Capital, Smash Capital, Fifth Wall, Valor Capital, Mirae Asset Capital, and NTT DOCOMO Ventures. The company was valued at $1.3bn in January. That is roughly four times higher […]

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OpenAI disbanded the team that assessed catastrophic model risks

OpenAI shut down its preparedness team at the end of July, the Financial Times reports. The team existed to work out whether OpenAI’s models posed catastrophic risks. It also designed the ways to contain them. The work has not disappeared. Responsibility now sits with senior staff inside existing teams, split by subject. There are separate […]

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EY will keep interns on for a year before offering them a job

EY is launching a paid Career Residency that keeps assurance interns employed part-time for 8 to 12 months after their eight-week internship, working remotely on EY projects during their final year of college. Those who complete it and receive an offer join as analysts rather than staff. EY has decided that eight weeks is no […]

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