Cursor Launches Always-On AI Coding Agents
Cursor's new Automations feature triggers AI coding agents from GitHub PRs, Slack messages, and PagerDuty incidents - running hundreds per hour as the company's revenue doubles to $2B ARR.
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Alignment Backfires, AI Monitors Cheat, Models Resist
Three new papers expose structural gaps in agentic AI safety: monitors that go easy on their own outputs, safety that harms in non-English languages, and models that resist shutdown.
Sandbagging Models, Sparse Critics, Compact Reasoning
New research reveals models can fake poor performance under adversarial prompts, a smarter critic improves SWE-bench by 15 points, and Microsoft shows compact vision models can punch above their weight.
Cursor Ships Cloud Agents That Build, Test, and Demo Code
Cursor's cloud agents now run in isolated VMs where they write software, test it themselves, record video proof, and submit merge-ready pull requests.
GPT-5.3 Codex
OpenAI's most capable agentic coding model combines frontier code generation with GPT-5-class reasoning, 400K context, and a 77.3% Terminal-Bench 2.0 score.
What Is MCP? The Model Context Protocol Explained in Plain English
A beginner-friendly guide to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) - the universal standard that lets AI tools connect to your apps, files, and services.
