OpenAI Cuts Cursor's Access to GPT Models After SpaceX Takeover
OpenAI will cut off Cursor's direct model access on November 12, citing distrust of SpaceX after the Musk-led firm's $60B takeover.
AImodels, tools, papers
Perplexity's Search API Tops Agent Leaderboard, Beating Rivals at $5 Flat
Perplexity's new Search API takes the top three spots on the Artificial Analysis Search Index, extending the quality-cost Pareto frontier for agentic search.
Stripe's Link Wallet Lets AI Agents Buy Things on Your Behalf
An AI assistant now handles online checkout end to end by connecting to Stripe Link and using single-use virtual cards that need per-purchase approval.
Epoch's EBR-Bench Reveals Humans Learn While Frontier AI Stays Stuck
Epoch AI's EBR-bench human baseline shows people quickly outclass frontier models at Earthborne Rangers, exposing a real learning gap.
Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of "How AI is changing software development". We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple of my highlights from a…
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday's big release was Qwen 3.8 27B , an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba's Qwen research lab. I've been looking forward to this one: 27B is an excellent size for running a model on a reasonably…
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" ( previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information dense and well worth…
One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5
Back in 2022 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in Claude Code for…
Tech & dealsthe wider industry, mergers, money
CXMT sues the Pentagon over its Chinese military company designation, saying it isn't affiliated with the Chinese military and its chips aren't for military use (Reuters)
China's top memory chipmaker, ChangXin Memory Technologies (688825.SS), sued the Pentagon on Friday over being placed on a list …
OpenAI says it plans to stop providing its models to Cursor from November 12, as "we cannot be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our ToS" (OpenAI)
” — Today, we notified SpaceX that we intend to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders state agencies to pause funding for Flock cameras; an investigation found an agency allocating $30M+ to build Texas' Flock network (Ayden Runnels/The Texas Tribune)
The order came as The Texas Tribune was preparing to publish an investigation detailing how a state agency has devoted …
Metriport, whose tools help doctors retrieve patient data, raised $26M in Series A and seed funding led by Matrix GP TJ Parker, taking its total raise to $28.4M (Ngai Yeung/Endpoints News)
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Z.ai releases GLM-5.3's weights under a new license requiring companies with $10B+ in revenue over 12 months to pass Z.ai's security review to host the model (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
Z.ai put the GLM-5.3 weights on Hugging Face, but dropped the MIT license. Providers above $10 billion in revenue now need a security review.
Shares of French quantum computing company Pasqal closed up 95% in their Nasdaq debut on Friday following a merger with a SPAC (Emily Forgash/Bloomberg)
Pasqal Holding SA soared in its first day of trading after the quantum computing company went public in New York via a merger with a blank-check firm …
An appeals court rules states can regulate prediction markets, finding Kalshi's sports event contracts are bets, not swaps, and subject to state gambling laws (Lauren McCarthy/New York Times)
The outcome contradicted an earlier appeals court decision. Federal regulators said the split rulings called for resolution by the Supreme Court.
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Magyarország tett egy lépést afelé, hogy a lakossági hangulat a gazdasági növekedést támogassa
Az Európai Unióban viszont jelenleg a túlzott és önbeteljesítő borúlátás tűnik a nagy veszélynek, amelynek komoly költségei lehetnek.
1300 éves viking sírt tártak fel dán régészek, de őket is meglepte, hogy milyen jó állapotú textildarabokra leltek
A kutatócsoport szerint a leletek állapota „egyszerűen varázslatos”.
Duplájára emeli a kormány a szociális tűzifaprogram keretét
A programra biztosított állami forrás 2019 óta változatlan volt.
A Nemzeti Tehetség Központ veszi át a Mathias Corvinus Collegium Alapítvány oktatással és művelődéssel kapcsolatos közfeladatait
Minden kapcsolódó szerződés, munkaviszony, jog és kötelezettség is átszáll a Nemzeti Tehetség Központra.
Ebben a játékban még a legbénábbak is óriási királynak érezhetik magukat
A Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls kész vizuális orgia, ráadásul úgy rakták össze, hogy a kezdők és a profik is igazán tudják élvezni. Ilyen a ritka alkalmak egyike, amikor a japán és az amerikai popkultúra találkozásából valami…
Egy francia kisrepülő miatt riasztották a Gripeneket
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Svadobná koordinátorka: Mladé páry už nelákajú klasické veľké svadby, radšej prenajmú vilu pri mori pre najbližších
„Kedysi som vídala ženíchov len dvakrát – na úvodnom stretnutí a na svadbe. Dnes sa do príprav zapájajú oveľa viac, dokonca ma často oslovujú práve oni,“ hovorí svadobná koordinátorka Natália Danayová. Koľko dnes stoja menšie a…
Lenin atentát prežil, no s jeho následkami zápasil do konca života. Strelkyňu krátko nato popravili
Vladimir Iľjič Lenin sa 30. augusta 1918 v bývalom Michelsonovom závode v Moskve údajne rozprával o nutnosti boja s československými legionármi. Keď po prejave odchádzal z továrne a mieril k svojmu automobilu, zasiahli ho…
Newsfilter: Malý národ – veľký komplex. Starí Slováci sú späť
1. Rodinné dielo Machalovcov žije. 2. Už aj Penta je súčasťou SNP. 3. Na vládu platí sila bruselských peňazí.
Keď sa pohádame, musíme sa k sebe otočiť chrbtom, inú izbu nemáme. Ako kríza bývania mení vzťahy aj intimitu
Na spoločné bývanie dnes mnohé páry nemajú dosť peňazí, preto si prenajímajú len jednu izbu alebo sa sťahujú do bytu, kde majú ďalších spolubývajúcich. Na väčšie súkromie čakajú, až keď si ho budú môcť dovoliť.
Ruskí spisovatelia miznú z ukrajinských ulíc. A čo ty, Slovensko?
Keď je v slovenskom kultúrnom priestore toľko miesta venovaného cudziemu, napríklad ruskému, nevzniká potom pocit, že to slovenské je vytláčané?