SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60 Billion in Enterprise AI Push★ 78
The Verge AI2 days agoBusinessSpaceX has announced a $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, the AI-powered code editor, days after its own IPO. The deal is framed as a strategic move to attract enterprise customers and narrow the competitive gap with Anthropic and OpenAI. The takeover was signaled in advance and represents one of the largest AI-sector acquisitions to date.
GitHub Copilot CLI Gets Smarter About Subagent Delegation
GitHub Blog6 days agoReleaseGitHub says Copilot CLI now uses “smarter subagent delegation,” a behind-the-scenes orchestration improvement rolled out to all production traffic. The change makes the main agent handle focused work directly, while reserving subagents for broader, independent, or parallelizable tasks. In production A/B testing, GitHub reports 23% fewer tool failures per session, lower search and edit failures, reduced wait time, and no quality regression.
Program Claude Code, Codex, Pi and Other Agent Harnesses with AI SDK
Vercel Changelog6 days agoReleaseVercel’s changelog entry says AI SDK can now be used to program agent harnesses including Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and other similar tools. Based on the title alone, the update appears aimed at developers who want a common programming interface around coding agents and AI assistant runtimes. No implementation details, APIs, examples, pricing, availability limits, or supported harness list beyond the named products are provided in the source text.
Budgets for API Keys on Vercel AI Gateway
Vercel Changelog9 days agoReleaseVercel has added per-API-key budget controls to its AI Gateway product, enabling developers to set hard spending limits on individual keys. Once a key hits its budget threshold, the gateway automatically blocks further requests, preventing unexpected cost overruns. This is especially useful for multi-tenant apps, team cost allocation, and isolating dev/test environments from production spending.
ElevenAPI
ElevenLabs Blog10 days agoNew ToolElevenAPI is a developer category on the ElevenLabs blog rather than a single detailed article. It collects updates and tutorials around speech, music, conversational agents, API keys, web components, and integrations. Listed posts mention Lovable, ElevenLabs UI, Music API, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, DeepSeek R1, Voice Isolator API, timestamped TTS endpoints, and Speech-to-Speech API.
Microsoft Build 2026 Brings Agent Development Tools to Local Workflows★ 72
INSIDE 硬塞 AI15 days agoNew ToolAt Build 2026, Microsoft announced a set of agent development tools including the GitHub Copilot desktop app, Project Rayfin backend automation, Windows terminal and container updates, and Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. The releases point to an end-to-end workflow for building and running AI agents locally. The focus is platform integration rather than a single model breakthrough.
Show HN: Paseo - Beautiful open-source coding agent interface
Hacker News (AI keywords)16 days agoNew ToolPaseo provides one interface for tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, OpenCode, and Pi. It runs agents through a local daemon on the user's own machine and supports desktop, mobile, web, and CLI clients. Its appeal is multi-agent orchestration and cross-device control, though real adoption depends on workflow fit, security, and reliability.
GitHub Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs dev backlash★ 72
TechCrunch AI19 days agoBusinessTechCrunch reports that GitHub Copilot will move to token-based billing on June 1, replacing a more predictable flat or request-based model. Some developers say their expected monthly costs could jump dramatically, citing examples from about $29 to nearly $750 or $50 to around $3,000. Others argue the worst cases may reflect heavy vibe-coding usage, while critics say Microsoft encouraged that behavior before changing the economics.
Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans
TechCrunch AI20 days agoCommentaryCognition makes Devin, described by TechCrunch as the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. Scott Wu says the product is not meant to supplant human programmers. The key takeaway is a positioning statement: AI coding agents are being framed as tools for software work, not as a direct removal of humans from development.
Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
Hacker News (AI keywords)28 days agoNew ToolThis Show HN post introduces Agent.email, apparently a tool for programmatic email or account signup. Based on the title, its main idea is signing up through curl, then letting a human claim the resource via OTP. No article body is available, so product details, security model, pricing, and actual use cases cannot be verified.