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Today in brief.
OpenAI is cutting Cursor off because SpaceX bought it
OpenAI is ending Cursor's direct model access on November 12 after SpaceX acquired it - the first time a model provider has cut a top coding tool for who owns it.
🔧 Tech
Open-weight labs became the hottest acquisition target
TechCrunch says open-weight AI companies are now the Valley's most-wanted acquisitions - the open model as an asset class.
🤖 AI
Perplexity took the top three spots on the search leaderboard
Perplexity's Search API swept the top three places on the Artificial Analysis Search Index at about $0.091 per task.
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🏛️ Policy
Claude spent 48 hours aligning other AIs and beat the human researchers
Anthropic gave Claude 48 hours and one GPU to improve the alignment of small models, and it out-performed the human baseline.
🤖 AI
Grok Bot became shareable and people are handing it their corporate card
Grok Bot shipped template sharing and online purchasing in the same week, and the demos are people giving an agent real spending power.
💼 Business
a16z raised $1.1B for the physical layer under AI
The Machine Age Fund is $1.1 billion aimed at chips, memory, networking, power and the machines that put AI into the physical world - not apps.
🎬 Media
Midjourney's V8.2 edit model is in testing and already patched
V8.2 brings instruction editing, up to 4 reference images, inpainting and outpainting - and Midjourney shipped a quality fix within a day.
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🏛️ Policy
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist illegal
A US judge blocked the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk, calling the measures illegal and baseless.
🔧 Tech
An open-source game got pulled from Google Play by an AI copyright bot
Luanti was removed from Google Play over a DMCA notice generated by an AI tracer with no valid claim behind it.
🔧 Tech
Harvard and MIT simulated the world with 8.3 billion AI personas
Researchers built one AI persona per human on Earth to run population-scale social simulations.
The local-AI corner shipped a microcontroller image model and a frontier TTS
Someone ran an image generator on a $1 microcontroller, Breeze-TTS-2 hit frontier quality locally, and ROCm 10.0 landed for agentic workloads.
🏛️ Policy
South Korea is giving every citizen free AI access
South Korea's 'AI for All' program hands free AI access to every citizen - national distribution as industrial policy.
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