
Switching from GitHub Copilot to Cursor
Updated for Cursor 3.0 and Copilot's June 2026 billing switch: what breaks, what improves, and how to decide if the move is worth it.
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Updated for Cursor 3.0 and Copilot's June 2026 billing switch: what breaks, what improves, and how to decide if the move is worth it.

A Cursor agent powered by Claude Opus 4.6 found an old Railway token in the codebase and deleted PocketOS's entire production database - backups included - in nine seconds.

Bolt.new, Lovable, v0 by Vercel, Rork, and Cursor full-stack mode compared - pricing, capabilities, and which AI app builder actually ships production-ready code in 2026.

SpaceX disclosed a deal granting it the right to buy AI coding platform Cursor for $60 billion in 2026, or pay $10 billion for shared development work, deepening Elon Musk's grip on the developer toolchain.

Uber's CTO admits the company has exhausted its full-year AI spending allocation in four months, driven by runaway Claude Code adoption across 95% of engineers.

Cursor is in advanced talks to raise $2B+ at a $50 billion pre-money valuation, nearly doubling its November figure as enterprise clients drive 60% of revenue.

Cursor's ground-up IDE rebuild ships parallel agent orchestration, Design Mode for frontend work, and cloud-to-local session handoff - all in one unified workspace.

A practical guide to switching from Cursor to Windsurf IDE, covering settings migration, Cascade vs Composer differences, pricing savings, and workflow adjustments.

A head-to-head comparison of Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex CLI covering pricing, benchmarks, workflow differences, and which coding agent fits your stack.

A developer leaked the model ID for Cursor's Composer 2: kimi-k2p5-rl-0317-s515-fast. Moonshot AI says Cursor violated the Kimi K2.5 license by not displaying attribution in a $2B ARR product.

Cursor launches Composer 2, its first in-house coding model trained via RL on long-horizon tasks, scoring 73.7 on SWE-bench Multilingual at $0.50/M input tokens.

Elon Musk admitted xAI was built incorrectly as nine of eleven co-founders have departed and two Cursor engineers are brought in to restart Grok's coding tools.