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The article discusses the advancements in Cursor's cloud agents, which can now autonomously control their own virtual machines, enabling them to develop and test software more efficiently.
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The article discusses the implementation of a secure sandbox for local agents, aimed at reducing interruptions while enhancing security.
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This article discusses how Stripe successfully implemented a consistent Cursor experience for over 3,000 engineers, emphasizing the importance of rapid adoption and maintaining high-quality coding ...
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The article discusses the new plugin support in Cursor, enabling users to connect agents to external tools and enhance their functionality throughout the product development lifecycle.
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Box has partnered with Cursor to enhance its enterprise-grade software development capabilities, focusing on quality, security, and control.
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Cursor has expanded its long-running agents research preview to all Ultra, Teams, and Enterprise users, enabling autonomous AI agents that can work on ambitious coding tasks for hours or even days.
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Cursor has significantly increased usage limits for their Auto and Composer 1. 5 models across all individual plans by introducing two separate usage pools.
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Cursor announces Composer 1. 5, a significantly improved agentic coding model built by scaling reinforcement learning 20x beyond Composer 1.
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NVIDIA has deployed Cursor across 30,000 developers, resulting in a 3x increase in committed code while maintaining flat bug rates.
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Cursor's research team details their iterative journey building a multi-agent system capable of orchestrating thousands of AI coding agents to autonomously develop a web browser.
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This article explains how Cursor optimizes semantic search indexing for large codebases by using Merkle trees and similarity hashing to securely reuse existing indexes across team members.
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Dropbox adopted Cursor as its primary AI coding tool, indexing over 550,000 files across its monorepo to build an AI-native software development lifecycle.
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Salesforce adopted Cursor as its primary AI coding tool across 20,000+ engineers, achieving 90% adoption and double-digit improvements in cycle time, code quality, and throughput.
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The article discusses the development of Bugbot, an AI-driven code review agent designed to identify logic bugs, performance issues, and security vulnerabilities in pull requests.
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The article discusses the advancements in scaling long-running autonomous coding agents, focusing on the challenges and solutions encountered while coordinating multiple agents to complete complex ...
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This article discusses best practices for coding with agents, specifically focusing on techniques for utilizing Cursor's agent effectively.
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The article discusses dynamic context discovery, a method for optimizing how coding agents gather relevant context while minimizing token usage.
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The article discusses the integration of hooks for security and platform teams, emphasizing how organizations can leverage these hooks to enhance their security posture and operational efficiency.
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The article announces that Graphite has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor, highlighting the evolution of code writing and collaboration workflows.
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The article discusses the release of a visual editor for the Cursor Browser, which integrates web applications, codebases, and visual editing tools into a single interface.
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The article introduces Debug Mode, a new feature designed to enhance the debugging process for coding agents by utilizing runtime logs and human verification.
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The article discusses enhancements made to Cursor's agent for OpenAI Codex models, particularly focusing on the integration of the latest model, GPT-5. 1-Codex-Max.
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The article discusses the journey of Cursor, highlighting its vision for a revolutionary code editor and announcing a significant Series D funding round of $2. 3 billion.
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