The Register on MSN

Cursor used agents to write a browser, proving AI can write shoddy code at scale

Project kind-of worked but left a lot of messes for humans to clean up A week ago, Cursor CEO Michael Truell celebrated what ...
LAist

Find tranquility, beauty — and books — at these SoCal public libraries

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. There’s something about a library ...
Wired

Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers

The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market. Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup, is launching a new feature ...
PBS

Supreme Court declines to hear appeal on Texas book ban case that allows officials to remove objectionable books from libraries

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal on a Texas free speech case that allowed local officials to remove books deemed objectionable from public libraries.
Reuters

Code-gen startup Cursor nearly triples its valuation in Coatue-led funding round

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Code-generation startup Cursor nearly tripled its valuation to $29.3 billion in five months after raising $2.3 billion in its latest funding round, as artificial intelligence ...
Wall Street Journal

The AI Coding Startup Favored by Tech CEOs Is Now Worth $29.3 Billion

Cursor, a startup that makes an AI coding tool beloved by engineers, has raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation—nearly 12 times the value the company had in January. Accel, which invested in ...
Business Wire

Cursor Secures $2.3 Billion Series D Financing at $29.3 Billion Valuation to Redefine How Software is Written

This capital infusion will enable Cursor to significantly increase investment in technical research, product development, and frontier model training — like the recently launched Composer agentic ...
Ars Technica

Cursor introduces its coding model alongside multi-agent interface

Cursor has for the first time introduced what it claims is a competitive coding model, alongside the 2.0 version of its integrated development environment (IDE) with a new feature that allows running ...
VentureBeat

Vibe coding platform Cursor releases first in-house LLM, Composer, promising 4X speed boost

The vibe coding tool Cursor, from startup Anysphere, has introduced Composer, its first in-house, proprietary coding large language model (LLM) as part of its Cursor 2.0 platform update. Composer is ...
The New York Times

Why Carnegie’s Libraries Are Getting $10,000 Checks

There are still dozens of library branches that were built by Andrew Carnegie in the city. The Carnegie Corporation is giving them gifts. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll find ...
Bleeping Computer

Cursor, Windsurf IDEs riddled with 94+ n-day Chromium vulnerabilities

The latest releases of Cursor and Windsurf integrated development environments are vulnerable to more than 94 known and patched security issues in the Chromium browser and the V8 JavaScript engine. An ...
Publishers Weekly

Libraries Look to Fill the Gap Left by Baker & Taylor

With the announcement of Baker & Taylor’s imminent closure, different parts of the publishing ecosystem are moving as fast as they can to adjust to a world without the country’s largest library ...