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❌ OpenAI cuts off Cursor after SpaceX acquisition
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- OpenAI said late Friday it will end its partnership with Cursor and cut the coding tool's access to its models on November 12, roughly three months after SpaceX bought Cursor's parent company Anysphere.
- OpenAI blamed the split on trust rather than technology, writing that it cannot be sure SpaceX will follow its terms of service given past contract violations by X and other Musk-owned companies.
- The cutoff pushes Cursor to rely more on Anthropic's Claude and its own in-house Composer model, leaving open the question of whether Anthropic will make the same move to drop the tool.
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🇰🇷 South Korea gives every citizen free AI
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- South Korea has picked three groups led by SK Telecom, KT and Kakao to build free, unlimited basic AI services for every citizen, with a full launch planned by the end of 2026.
- The government will hand the consortia a combined 512 Nvidia B200 chips during 2026, and starting in 2027 will cover part of the running costs while the companies must add their own money and find revenue.
- Rules set in July require at least half of each service's model use to come from independent Korean foundation models, with 30% from other domestic developers, though the total cost and real-world capacity remain unsettled.
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🤖 Meta tests robots for data center jobs
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- Meta is trying out robots to help run the data centers behind its AI, with machines that can swap networking cables, reboot servers, move racks, and check equipment, according to a WIRED report.
- The company is testing hardware from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB, but the machines still need people watching over them and struggle with tangled cabling, battery life, obstacles, and visual inspections.
- One worker estimated a working cable-swapping robot could take over up to 80% of some jobs, though that was the employee's guess, not a Meta forecast, and the robots remain slower than humans.
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⚖️ States can regulate prediction markets
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- A federal appeals court ruled Friday that states can treat prediction markets like Kalshi as gambling, a setback for an industry that has argued its bets are federally regulated financial contracts rather than wagers.
- The 3-0 decision from the Ninth Circuit, involving Nevada's push to shut down Kalshi, now binds federal judges in California, Arizona and six other states, opening the door for them to regulate or close the site.
- The ruling clashes with a Third Circuit decision this year that sided with prediction sites against New Jersey, creating a split that experts say likely sends the fight over sports event contracts to the Supreme Court.
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👀 X finds 200000 fake energy accounts
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- X says it found a network of 200,000 fake accounts tied to China, with 200 of them posting cartoons and text designed to sway American debate over AI data centers and energy policy.
- The 200 accounts claimed data centers push up household electricity prices and strain local grids, sharing AI-made cartoons that showed operators as greedy businessmen while ordinary families paid the bill.
- X said the accounts used OpenAI tools to create the images and talking points, matching a June OpenAI report about China-linked ChatGPT users generating anti-data center content and other political material.
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