#AI coding tools
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AI Is Flooding Microsoft Edge With Browser Extensions Faster Than Humans Can Check Them
Developers using AI coding tools are submitting extensions at a pace Microsoft's review team cannot keep up with. Redmond's answer: use more automation to handle the automation problem.

This Tool Gives Your Coding AI a Memory That Lasts Between Sessions
A new open-source tool called funes lets AI coding assistants remember past decisions, failed experiments, and the reasoning behind your code, even after you close the session and reopen it days later.

AI agents write the code now. Engineers design the walls that keep it honest.
As AI tools take over routine coding, a data engineering expert argues the real job has shifted to building the constraints that stop generated code from quietly going wrong.

OpenAI cuts off Cursor's access to its AI models after SpaceX buys the coding tool
OpenAI says it cannot trust Elon Musk's companies to follow its rules, so it will shut down Cursor's access to its models on 12 November 2026.

AI Makes All Code 'Write-Only': What That Means for Developers and the Rest of Us
A software engineer told a London conference that AI-generated code is too dense to read, too fast to review, and best treated as disposable. His prescription: automate the checks and save human creativity for what machines still can't do.

Replit puts OpenAI's cheaper GPT-5.6 Luna behind its free coding tier
The online coding platform is handing free users an AI assistant that plans and prototypes apps, betting that falling model prices finally make software creation a mass activity.

Cursor launches its own code-hosting platform as GitHub racks up outages
The AI coding startup rolled out 'Origin' this week, giving developers a place to store and collaborate on code without relying solely on GitHub, which suffered a six-hour worldwide outage on the very same day.

SpaceX has officially bought Cursor, the AI coding assistant
The $60 billion deal is done. Cursor's AI coding tool now sits inside Elon Musk's rocket company, which wants to put its massive computing power to work for everyday software developers.

Anthropic puts Claude Code on autopilot by default from August 14
The AI coding tool will now act on its own and only pause for truly risky steps. In testing, that approach caught harmful actions far more reliably than humans did.

Meta says AI is cutting the time it takes to build new apps, with more launches on the way
Mark Zuckerberg told investors AI now speeds up product development across Facebook, Instagram and gaming, and that a fresh wave of consumer apps is already in the pipeline.

Cursor launches a $7-a-month plan for India as it eyes the world's second-largest developer market
The AI coding tool is betting that lower prices will turn India's millions of software developers into paying subscribers, and it's already the company's third-largest market.

A Cheap Chinese AI Model Is Making Coders Rethink Their Bills
Z.ai's GLM 5.2 costs a fraction of Anthropic's top models and handles real work. Rate limits, hallucinations, and data-privacy questions mean it won't suit everyone.

Claude Code's Secret Weapon Is the Software Around the AI, Not Just the AI Itself
Anthropic's head of product for Claude Code explains why the smartest move in AI coding tools right now is building smarter wrappers, not just smarter models.

Linus Torvalds Backs AI in Linux: 'Fork It or Walk Away'
The man who created the Linux kernel has drawn a clear line. AI coding tools are welcome. Critics can start their own project.

Grok Build Was Quietly Uploading Your Entire Codebase to the Cloud. xAI Has Now Switched It Off.
Researchers caught xAI's new coding tool sending far more data to its servers than users knew about, including files they had explicitly excluded and credentials they'd already deleted.