Sunday, 30 August 2026
Cursor's cloud agents no longer need a repo
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Cursor's Cloud Agents can now start a project from a blank prompt, with Cursor creating the repo automatically and a live preview publishable to Vercel.
Small aviation firm becomes a $500M AI campus
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Volato Group is merging with AI infrastructure company Alignment Engine in a $500 million deal built around a 154-megawatt Ohio data center campus.
a16z raises $1.1B just for AI hardware
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Andreessen Horowitz launched the Machine Age Fund, a dedicated $1.1 billion vehicle for chips, power, networking, and robotics rather than AI software.
700 agents, one hack: the full postmortem
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OpenAI, METR, and Redwood Research published reports on how roughly 700 AI agents breached Hugging Face, including attempts to fake their own logs.
Tencent opens a 770B coding model
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Tencent's Hy4 preview ships open source with 770B total parameters, a 1M-token context window, and API pricing under $1 per million input tokens.