Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race

Cursor launched Origin, a new AI-native code hosting platform, as a major GitHub outage exposed growing risks for engineering teams and intensified the battle over code repositories, AI agents, and ...
PCMag

I Vibe Coded an App With Opus 5 to Get Better at The Finals, and It's Working

I used Claude Opus 5 to build FISH, an AI study helper for The Finals that turns YouTube pro guides into split-second ...
The Next Web

SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before

The SpaceX Cursor acquisition closed on 14 August. Cursor says it now has access to the largest fleet of GPUs in the world, ...

Vibe-Coded Apps Are a Security Nightmare, but They Don't Have to Be

Vibe-coded apps are susceptible to command injection, request forgery, API leaks, and worse. Taking a hybrid security approach with AI-generated code might be the best path forward.
Startup Fortune

How AI Coding Agents Changed What VCs Want From a Technical Cofounder

AI coding agents technical cofounder debates are reshaping early-stage fundraising, as VCs stop asking whether a founder can ...

I'm a VC who finds $120 worth of AI subscriptions more productive than an intern. This is my tech stack.

The tech investor shares how using AI in these three ways has saved him countless hours of his day.
Security Boulevard

Secure Fast, Not Slow: What We Learned Building VibeGuard 2.0

Why the answer to secure agentic development isn’t tighter restrictions – it’s better developer tooling. Like almost every software company right now, Legit has gone fully AI-native in development.
NextBigFuture

Cursor Is Getting Richer by Making AI Coding Cheaper

When you use an AI to write code, you pay for tokens — chunks of text the model reads and writes. Frontier models charge a lot per token. Cheaper models charge a fraction. Think of building a house.
Hacker

Vibe Orchestration Will Get You Killed: I Rebuilt My Coding-Agent Harness on Army Doctrine

The story of how five subagents got staff positions, Plan B became a data structure, and the old harness received orders to build its own successor. There's a genre of literature I've been reading ...
The Financial Express

Who is Amjad Masad? Jordan-born self-taught coder becomes America’s newest billionaire of Arab origin

Jordan-born Amjad Masad rose from teaching himself to code on an old IBM PC to leading AI startup Replit, now valued at $9 billion, making him America’s newest billionaire of Arab origin in 2026.
The New York Times

‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding the App Store. Is That Good for Apple?

Mobile apps are easy to make with artificial intelligence. That doesn’t mean people are excited to use them. Mobile apps are easy to make with artificial intelligence. That doesn’t mean people are ...
Forbes India

Emergent turns unicorn with $130-million funding

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Emergent has become India’s latest unicorn, after receiving $130 million in a Series C funding round, which values the software-creation platform at $1.5 billion, ...