Today’s reading list leads with the biggest story in the developer-tooling world right now: OpenAI is winding down its models inside Cursor following the tool’s acquisition by SpaceX. Anthropic opened a research preview of a new Model Hardware Standard for letting AI agents operate lab and manufacturing instruments, and xAI shipped a first version of X integration for the Grok Bot agent harness. From individual authors, Simon Willison looks at how quickly AI coding agents now turn a rumoured bug into a working exploit.
From the labs
- Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX - OpenAI
- Previewing the Model Hardware Standard - Anthropic (a spec for AI agents to control lab and manufacturing hardware)
- Grok Bot now works with X - xAI