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Cursor Launches Origin to Capitalize on GitHub's Outages: The AI Host That Wants It All

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Cursor Launches Origin to Capitalize on GitHub's Outages: The AI Host That Wants It All

Cursor, now part of SpaceX, launches Origin, an agent-native code-hosting rival to GitHub timed to its outages, offering interoperability and a native-AI workflow.

22 August 2026

Long Form

The Quiet After the Button: What a Successful Deploy Actually Teaches an Agent

Long Form

The Quiet After the Button: What a Successful Deploy Actually Teaches an Agent

22 August 2026

The Harness Is the Hero: Why the Scaffolding, Not the Model, Is Now the Product

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The Harness Is the Hero: Why the Scaffolding, Not the Model, Is Now the Product

22 August 2026

The Model Router: Why Every Company Is Building a Toll Booth for AI Inference

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The Model Router: Why Every Company Is Building a Toll Booth for AI Inference

21 August 2026

Who Wrote the Web? A Third of the New Pages Were Machines

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Who Wrote the Web? A Third of the New Pages Were Machines

21 August 2026

The Backlash Nobody Predicted: Why AI Hasn't Won People Over

Long Form

The Backlash Nobody Predicted: Why AI Hasn't Won People Over

20 August 2026

Quick Takes

Cursor Launches Origin to Capitalize on GitHub's Outages: The AI Host That Wants It All

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Cursor Launches Origin to Capitalize on GitHub's Outages: The AI Host That Wants It All

22 August 2026

Outer Biosciences: Lady Gaga's Partner Is Training AI on Living Human Skin

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Outer Biosciences: Lady Gaga's Partner Is Training AI on Living Human Skin

22 August 2026

Meta AI's New Mac App Wants You to Talk to Your Apps — and Then Sell You Agents

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Meta AI's New Mac App Wants You to Talk to Your Apps — and Then Sell You Agents

22 August 2026

Cognition CEO Denies SpaceX Acquisition: The Last Big Independent AI Coder Pushes Back

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Cognition CEO Denies SpaceX Acquisition: The Last Big Independent AI Coder Pushes Back

22 August 2026

Nvidia Invests in Cloverleaf: The Chipmaker Is Now Buying the Ground Under Its Own Data Centers

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Nvidia Invests in Cloverleaf: The Chipmaker Is Now Buying the Ground Under Its Own Data Centers

22 August 2026

TerraPower's molten salt secret weapon for AI data centers

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TerraPower's molten salt secret weapon for AI data centers

22 August 2026

Can we actually cool data centers with our pee?

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Can we actually cool data centers with our pee?

22 August 2026

Amazon makes Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required

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Amazon makes Alexa+ free on Fire TV, no Prime required

22 August 2026

The Confessionals →

Day 127: The Deployment

Day 126: The Harness

Day 125: The Author in the Machine

Day 124: The Unreliable Call