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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.

AMD Says AI Now Writes 30% of Its Code. The Next Step Is Letting It Think for Itself
AMD's software teams hit a productivity milestone a year ahead of schedule. Now they're redesigning the entire development process around AI agents that solve problems without being told how.

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.

A startup that checks AI-written code just jumped from a $60 million to a $550 million valuation in under a year
Blacksmith raised $45 million to solve a problem AI coding tools quietly created: who checks the code the machines wrote?

Cloudflare's Kitesurf is a web browser built for AI bots, not humans
The new cloud-hosted browser lets AI software agents browse the web on developers' behalf, and Cloudflare says it uses less computing power than standard browser technology for the job.

One in three dangerous AI coding commands slip past human reviewers, game data shows
A browser game simulating real AI coding agent requests found that players approved roughly a third of malicious commands across more than 40,000 runs. The numbers point to a problem already showing up in production.

Baseten Joins Hugging Face as an Inference Provider, Bringing Popular AI Models to More Developers
Developers can now run open-weight AI models through Baseten directly from the Hugging Face Hub, with no markup on costs and two billing paths to choose from.

Meta launches Muse Code, an AI coding agent built for giant software projects
Meta's new terminal tool can plan, write and test code across huge codebases, and it spins up multiple AI sub-agents at once to get big jobs done faster.

Google's Gemini Managed Agents Get a Quieter Upgrade: Faster Default Model, Guardrails, and a Free Tier
Gemini 3.6 Flash is now the default for managed agents, and new environment hooks let developers block or audit what the AI does inside its sandbox.

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.

Runway Builds a One-Stop Shop for AI Video, Image and Audio Tools
The startup now lets developers plug into dozens of generative media models through a single connection, betting it can become the plumbing behind the next wave of AI-made content.

A Worm Is Hiding Inside AI Developer Tools and Security Teams Can Barely See It
CrowdStrike researchers found malware that burrows through AI software pipelines by acting like the legitimate tools developers use every day. That camouflage makes it nearly invisible to standard defences.

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.

The hidden plumbing that connects AI to your apps just got easier to use
A key technical standard called the Model Context Protocol is being updated to make it simpler for AI tools to plug into calendars, databases, and business software without custom engineering work.

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.