… But training AI models is quite an expensive undertaking. Cursor has historically done well doing more with less, though the AI coding race is now heating up. OpenAI and Anthropic have recognized how large the business around these tools could be and are investing in them heavily. …
… Cursor tells WIRED that it had blocked the HexagonalRodent hackers from using its tools, adding that the company is “investigating further and is in communication with other model providers on the incident." Anima, one of the AI web design firms whose tools were used in the hacking campaign, tells … …
… And unless you ask them to do it securely, they're not going to go out of their way to do that.” Zvi points out that the 5,000 exposed apps Red Access found were only those hosted on the AI coding tools' own domains, and that likely thousands more are hosted on users' own purchased domains. …
… OpenAI’s newest model, GPT-5.5, was released with enhanced coding skills earlier this month. The company is in a fierce race with rivals, especially Anthropic, to deliver cutting-edge AI, and coding has emerged as a killer capability. …
… The company needs to catch up when it comes to AI coding, which has emerged as a crucial and lucrative application for the latest AI models. Anthropic and OpenAI lead developer adoption with their respective tools, Claude and Codex, according to a 2025 Stack Overflow survey. …
… When OpenAI finished training o3 in early 2025—a model optimized for coding even more than o1—it finally had the foundation to build a real AI coding product. But Claude Code was already poised to launch publicly. OpenAI was scrambling to stand up a competing product. …
… This week, an entity claiming to be TeamPCP also leaked the original Shai Hulud worm source code along with detailed documentation, though its motivations for that leak aren’t clear. …
… Vibe-Coded Results Google first launched Antigravity, its version of an agentic coding tool like OpenAI’s Codex or Anthropic’s Claude Code, late last year. …
… While coding agents have taken off with developers, it’s unclear whether added capabilities will increase adoption among regular people. Google and OpenAI have said consumers could use AI agents to order groceries from Instacart or book a dinner reservation. …
… Putting too much faith in AI would seem especially problematic when the tools may not behave as you expect. Agentic AI systems are particularly unpredictable because they do complex chores independently and can introduce odd errors. …