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Developer

Cursor launches Origin, an agent-native code hosting platform that takes on GitHub

Cursor has launched Origin, a git-based code hosting platform embedded in its AI-powered editor, positioning it as an alternative to GitHub for teams already using Cursor. The early beta, available on paid plans, offers repositories, pull requests, and GitHub sync, but relies on GitHub as the system of record for mirrored projects. The launch coincides with a GitHub outage, sparking mixed reactions over data custody and neutrality.

Aug 256 minNeura News

Developer

Cloudflare Open-Sources Its AI-Powered Corporate OS

Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, a corporate AI platform built on a capability-based security model that lets non-technical users build and modify personal, sandboxed applications using generative AI. Released on GitHub on August 23, 2026, the platform emerged from internal scaling challenges and has already enabled employees to build over 4,000 custom business tools, recovering 10,000 hours of manual work. The platform uses fine-grained V8 isolates and a zero-trust 'Gatekeepers' security model to ensure safe, isolated app instances.

Aug 236 minNeura News

AI Models

Microsoft's New Copilot Model Trails DeepSeek on Benchmarks and Price

Microsoft's new MAI Code 1.1 Flash model for GitHub Copilot underperforms DeepSeek's open-weight alternative on Terminal Bench 2.1 while costing more per token. Independent benchmarks show DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 scoring 82.7% versus Microsoft's 62.9%, despite Microsoft's claims of improved efficiency. The gap raises questions about Microsoft's open AI positioning as it pushes proprietary models.

Aug 123 minNeura News

Product Launch

Microsoft Confirms Copilot 'Super App' Merging Chat, Coding, and Agentic AI

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed the company is building an AI 'super app' that combines Copilot chatbot, GitHub Copilot coding assistant, Copilot Cowork, and Autopilot agentic system into a single experience launching this year. The announcement came during Microsoft's earnings call, alongside strong quarterly revenue of $90 billion. The super app aims to compete with OpenAI's ChatGPT Work by unifying chat, coding, and autonomous agents.

Jul 293 minNeura News

Developer

OpenAI Reduces Codex Model Context Size from 372k to 272k

OpenAI has merged a pull request on GitHub that reduces the Codex model context size from 372,000 tokens to 272,000 tokens. The change, part of a hotfix for version 0.144, was merged on July 18, 2026, and affects bundled model metadata.

Jul 192 minNeura News

Developer

Simon Willison Creates Custom Codex Pet Pedalican with GPT-5.6

Simon Willison accidentally activated a pet in Codex Desktop and then created his own custom pet called Pedalican, a pelican on a bicycle. The process used GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh and gpt-image-2 to generate sprite assets. Willison documented the entire process, including generated images, sprite sheets, and GIFs, and shared the open-source skills on GitHub.

Jul 143 minNeura News

Developer

GitLost: Noma Labs Tricks GitHub AI Agent Into Leaking Private Repos

Noma Labs discovered a critical prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub's new Agentic Workflows, dubbed GitLost. An unauthenticated attacker could leak private repository data by posting a crafted GitHub Issue in a public repository belonging to the same organization. The vulnerability exploits the AI agent's failure to distinguish trusted instructions from untrusted user content.

Jul 83 minNeura News

Industry

GitHub Copilot Tokenpocalypse Sparks AI Pricing Debate

Microsoft's shift to per-token pricing for GitHub Copilot has been dubbed the 'Tokenpocalypse' by Reddit users. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, hosts discuss how this change signals broader cost pass-through in the AI industry, the rapid rise and fall of tokenmaxxxing, and the challenges AI companies face as they prepare for IPOs amid escalating costs and regulatory uncertainty.

Jun 73 minNeura News

AI Models

Tiny-vLLM Inference Engine and Course Released on GitHub

A developer has released tiny-vllm, a high-performance LLM inference engine written in C++ and CUDA, alongside a comprehensive course that walks through implementing the engine from scratch. The project covers loading models from Safetensors, running prefill and decode, building CUDA kernels, KV cache, and more. It is intended as a learning resource for engineers and educators.

May 304 minNeura News

Developer

GitHub Pilots Accessibility Agent for Copilot, Key Lessons

GitHub is testing an experimental accessibility agent integrated with GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code to answer accessibility questions and fix simple issues in front-end code changes. The agent has examined 3,535 pull requests with a 68% fix rate, targeting common problems like clear structure for assistive tech and text alternatives. Teams share insights on agent design, sub-agents, limitations, and using past issue data to improve results.

May 154 minNeura News

AI Models

Microsoft Ends Most Claude Code Licenses for Developers

Microsoft plans to revoke most internal licenses for Anthropic's Claude Code and shift developers to its GitHub Copilot CLI tool. The move affects the Experiences and Devices team handling Windows and other products, with usage ending by late June. Sources point to cost savings at fiscal year-end alongside strategic reasons.

May 154 minNeura News

Developer

Workshop to Train GPT Model from Scratch on Laptop

A GitHub project provides a hands-on workshop for building a full GPT training pipeline. Users write code for tokenization, transformer architecture, training loop, and text generation to train a 10 million parameter model on a laptop in under an hour. Designed for a single session, it uses character-level tokenization on Shakespeare data and supports Apple Silicon, NVIDIA GPUs, or CPU.

May 55 minNeura News