We’ve been reporting for months about how companies are shifting some traditional software spending to Anthropic and OpenAI. New data from procurement software firm Zip provides further evidence. AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Sierra accounted for 8% of spending by Zip customers in the 12 months that ended in August, up from 1.4% during the previous 12 months. Overall, their software budgets rose by a median of 13% during that period. The dozens of customers included in the study had an average of 2,400 employees and spent $18 billion for software, including AI, over the past four years. Zip’s customers include Snowflake, OpenAI, Datadog, Cloudflare and AMD.

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TechCrunch AI / 2:39 PM

Google’s $899 Googlebook is a bet that you’ll buy a new laptop for Gemini

Google’s AI-native Googlebook ties Gemini to the cursor, dictation, widgets, and other parts of the desktop experience.

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The Information AI / 8:40 PM

Exclusive: OpenAI Hires Global Sales Chief From SpaceX and Two Senior Snowflake Salespeople

OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX’s Cursor unit as its new global sales chief, reporting to recently hired Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic, the AI firm said Thursday. In addition, two veteran sales executives from Snowflake, including a senior vice president who helped negotiate the ...

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AWS Machine Learning Blog / 8:35 PM

Manage end-user OAuth consent for AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a Consent portal, a managed web experience and session binding endpoint for AgentCore Gateway. This post walks through provisioning a portal, configuring GitHub and Slack authorization code grant targets, and the end-user consent flow, and shows how to review activity in AWS CloudTrail.

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The Decoder / 1:33 PM

OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition, citing Musk's history of breaking contracts

OpenAI is cutting off the AI coding tool Cursor after SpaceX acquired the company, citing Elon Musk's track record of breaking contracts. Cursor co-founder Michael Truell downplays the move, saying OpenAI models account for just five percent of the tool's AI traffic. The article OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition, citing Musk's history of breaking contracts appeared first on The Decoder .

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AWS Machine Learning Blog / 7:00 PM

Agentic observability with Amazon OpenSearch Service MCP Apps

Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports MCP Apps, which return interactive visualizations alongside your AI agent's text responses. Learn how a single, locally run MCP server lets your agent move from alert to trace to logs to root cause in one conversation, and how you can verify every step inline without leaving your IDE.

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Product Hunt AI / 10:04 PM

Cursor Craft v2

Custom Mac cursors, rebuilt for v2 Discussion | Link

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Product Hunt AI / 10:48 PM

Marble MCP

Manage your CMS content from Claude, Cursor, and Codex Discussion | Link

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Cloudflare AI Blog / 1:12 PM

How Cloudflare detects MCP traffic and helps secure it

Cloudflare Gateway identifies MCP requests using protocol-level heuristics. Security teams can use that signal to find shadow MCP traffic, enforce Portal-only access for approved servers, and block direct connections on managed network paths.

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Bloomberg AI / 12:55 PM

SpaceX Completes $60 Billion Acquisition of AI Startup Cursor

SpaceX has completed a $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor, a key part of Elon Musk’s bid to gain ground on rivals Anthropic PBC and OpenAI.

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Latent Space / 6:07 PM

Underwriting Superintelligence: Backing Agents you can Sue — Rune Kvist, AIUC

We sit down with AIUC’s CEO on their Series A!

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Latent Space / 5:56 AM

[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale

We agree with Sebastian: this should have been DeepSeek v5

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Latent Space / 3:01 PM

OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot

SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.

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Latent Space / 7:46 AM

[AINews] Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1: new SOTA model, 75% cache price cut but 70% more output tokens

Queue the usual rush of model launches...

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Hacker News AI / 10:50 PM

OpenAI ends it partnership with Cursor

HN 6 pts · 4 comments

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Hacker News AI / 7:16 PM

Show HN: Lumiko – Chrome screen recorder with automatic cursor zoom

HN 1 pts · 0 comments

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Hacker News AI / 7:34 PM

Show HN: Use GLM-5.3 in Cursor today via tokengo API

HN 3 pts · 2 comments

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Hacker News AI / 5:49 PM

Cursor increases usage limits and auto mode costs

HN 2 pts · 0 comments

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Latent Space / 8:44 AM

[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months

the Memory crunch continues - Moore’s Law reversed to 2007 levels

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Product Hunt AI / 1:58 PM

Origin by Cursor

The Git forge built for the age of coding agents Discussion | Link

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Hacker News AI / 3:40 AM

Cursor earns AIUC-1 certification for agent security and reliability

HN 1 pts · 0 comments

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Hacker News AI / 1:49 PM

Devs to Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor: Make security and privacy the default

HN 2 pts · 2 comments

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AWS Machine Learning Blog / 4:09 PM

First Orion accelerates QA automation using Amazon Nova Act

Learn how First Orion, a branded communications company, shifted from brittle script-based UI testing to AI-driven QA automation with Amazon Nova Act. By describing tests in plain English instead of maintaining selector-based code, they cut QA cycle times, freed engineering capacity, and caught regressions earlier.

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Hacker News AI / 11:45 AM

Hacker News discussion: AgentCost – local CLI,attributes token cost in Claude Code/Cursor/Codex sessions

Hacker News readers are discussing "AgentCost – local CLI,attributes token cost in Claude Code/Cursor/Codex sessions" with 2 points and 0 comments.

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Hacker News AI / 6:13 PM

Show HN: Agent Router picks Cursor/Claude and effort per task, then launches it

HN 2 pts · 1 comments

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Hacker News AI / 10:48 PM

Run cloud agents on machines you manage

HN 1 pts · 0 comments

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TechCrunch AI / 8:12 PM

Meta now lets AI agents handle the boring parts of WhatsApp Business setup

A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.

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Bloomberg AI / 2:16 AM

OpenAI to End Partnership With Cursor After SpaceX Acquisition

OpenAI said it will end its partnership with Cursor after the AI-coding agent’s acquisition by SpaceX, according to a post on X.

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