I had ChatGPT build me a free PDF editor because I didn't trust it to change my files - it worked!

The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it touch your files, but asking it to write software that handles them safely - ...
MIT Technology Review

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
9to5Mac

SpaceX lands deal to likely purchase Cursor, a Claude Code and OpenAI Codex competitor

When SpaceX isn’t landing rockets, it’s apparently landing AI company deals. Two months ago, the firm behind Starlink absorbed xAI, which includes Twitter-turned-X. Now SpaceX is eyeing Cursor, a ...
TechCrunch

SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B

SpaceX said it has struck a deal with Cursor to develop a next-generation “coding and knowledge work AI,” which includes a surprising provision — an option to buy the popular software development ...
NextBigFuture

SpaceX Has Option to Buy Cursor for $60 Billion – XAI and Cursor Try to Catch Athropic Claude Code

SpaceXAI and Cursor_ai are partners trying to catch up to Anthropic and Claude Code. XAI data center and hundreds of thousands of chips can power Cursor Composer 2. The combination of Cursor’s leading ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

AI Can Improve Scholarly Writing — If We Use It Right

T ell a roomful of academics that you use AI in your writing and watch what happens. A few will nod. Most will go quiet in that particular way that means they’re embarrassed on your behalf. Someone ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Anthropic, Cursor Backer Accel Raises $5 Billion for Big AI Bets

Accel, the venture capital firm that’s backed artificial intelligence companies including Anthropic, Cursor and Perplexity, has raised $5 billion in new funds to keep up its big bets in the age of ...
TWCN Tech News

How to install and use Cursor AI Code Editor

Cursor is a free, open‑source code editor based on Visual Studio Code. It integrates large language models directly into your workflow, giving you AI‑powered autocomplete, inline code generation, a ...
Fast Company

AI writing is the technology’s bleakest use case

This question has polarized much of the internet. On one hand, you have the ardent defenders who believe that AI writing speeds up their process, allowing them to quickly transform bullets of ...