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Grok Bot Beta Gives AI Teammates Their Own Cloud Computers
SpaceXAI’s agent beta works across apps, saves reusable routines, and coordinates multiple Bots. The launch also leaves open questions about permissions, auditability, and reliability.
Grok 4.5 makes the frontier-model price fight real
Grok 4.5 does not beat GPT-5.6 Sol or Claude Fable 5 outright. The story is price-performance: near-frontier agent scores, $2/$6 API pricing, and token-efficiency claims that could make it a practical choice for cost-sensitive coding and tool-heavy workflows.
Loop Engineering: The Complete Guide to Building Self-Improving AI Agents
Stop prompting your coding agents one shot at a time. Here is how to design loops that prompt them for you—and when the extra complexity is worth it.
Cursor Origin Moves the AI Coding Fight From the Editor to the Git Forge
Cursor announced Origin, a Git forge and code-hosting product for teams and AI agents, with a fall 2026 waitlist. The official launch page is sparse, but the surrounding keynote and docs show the strategy: Cursor wants to control review, conflicts, merge readiness, and repository workflow for agent-generated code.
SpaceX Is Buying Cursor. The Target Is Codex.
SpaceX’s $60B Cursor deal is not just an AI coding acquisition. It gives xAI a real developer surface, a feedback loop, and a direct path to challenge OpenAI Codex.
Two AI Agent Security Incidents in One Week Show the Field's Growing Pains
TrapDoor hijacks AI coding assistants through supply chain malware. Composio gets breached via an internal AI agent. Here's what happened and what to do.
Cursor Composer 2.5 Hits 63.2% on CursorBench for Just $0.55 Per Task
Cursor shipped Composer 2.5 with major intelligence and behavior improvements. It scores 63.2% on CursorBench 3.1 at an average cost of $0.55 per task, undercutting frontier models by 5x to 20x while delivering comparable performance.
Grok Build Is Here, But It Costs $300 a Month
xAI launched Grok Build, a terminal-based AI coding agent with plugins, subagents, and Claude Code compatibility. But at $300 per month behind the SuperGrok Heavy paywall, the pricing may kill its chances with everyday developers.