Transformer on MSN

What the first AI elections tell us

Transformer Weekly: The AI Campaign Finance Tracker, DoD vs Anthropic, and Commerce vs White House ...

Cursor Goes To War For AI Coding Dominance

After becoming the hottest, fastest growing AI coding company, Cursor is confronting a new reality: developers may no longer need a code editor at all.

An Accel VC says the vibe coding market is big enough for Cursor and Claude Code

Miles Clements, a partner at VC firm Accel, said there are two reasons Claude's latest improvements don't hurt Cursor.
Boing Boing on MSN

The $30 billion AI code editor that might already be obsolete

Cursor's four cofounders became billionaires in 2025 selling an AI code editor that hit $1 billion in annualized revenue by November. Three months later, they held an all-hands meeting with slides ...

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...
Digital Phablet

AI Submits 35% of Code! Cursor CEO Declares: The Third AI Programming Era Is Here

In a bold announcement that has sent ripples through the tech industry, Cursor CEO declared the arrival of the third era of AI-powered programming. The ...