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Cursor's launch day was sponsored by GitHub
The outage started three and a half hours after Origin went live.
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In today’s issue, Aimfox shows you how to scale LinkedIn outreach without scaling your team, while HeyPass shows you how to stop being your team’s OTP machine.
Cursor launched a GitHub competitor. Hours later, GitHub went down. Stripe reportedly paid $7B+ for OpenRouter, while Anthropic gave Claude the ability to send emails.
The fight moved down a layer, to where code lives, how requests get routed, and what has permission to act for you.
China’s Robot Speed
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Cursor Now Owns Your Editor, Host and Model
Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, on Monday morning. About three and a half hours later, GitHub degraded for six hours and 42 minutes.
SpaceX closed its $60 billion purchase of Cursor's parent on August 14. One owner now holds the editor, the repository, and the model.
Origin defaults on for paid plans unless an admin opts out. Pricing and data retention terms are unpublished.
In Partnership with Aimfox
Get more meetings by removing the LinkedIn limits.
When you need more leads, you want to do more, right?
Adding mailboxes to cold emails.
Placing more cold calls
Running more ads.
But what do you do if your leads are on LinkedIn? LinkedIn outreach still depends on the limited number of profiles already on your team.
Aimfox Avatars lets you rent dedicated, customizable LinkedIn profiles that start conversations and hand interested replies to your existing sellers.
Add outreach capacity without hiring another SDR or turning every employee account into a prospecting channel..
Big Tech's $3 Trillion AI Bill Sits Off-Book
Nine tech companies carry about $3 trillion in off-balance-sheet commitments tied mostly to AI, per a Wall Street Journal review of filing footnotes. Reported capex over the year was roughly $600 billion.
Alphabet holds $811 billion, up from $332 billion three months earlier. Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon add $708 billion between them.
Purchase commitments and signed leases cannot be cancelled. If revenue lags the buildout, the bill arrives anyway.
Lead Analysis
Stripe Bought OpenRouter, the Model Toll Booth
Stripe finalized a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7 billion. The gateway was valued at $1.3 billion in May.
It routes requests across 400-plus models for roughly 8 million developers. Stripe bought usage-billing company Metronome in January.
Model selection, metering, and payment now sit with one company. If agents are going to spend money for you, Stripe wants the rail.
Claude Can Now Send Email Without Asking
Anthropic enabled send, reply, and forward in Claude's Gmail connector, plus file management in Drive. Approval stays on by default, and users can switch it off.
Reading an inbox and acting in one are different risk categories. A drafting assistant that misreads a thread costs you a minute. A sending one costs you a relationship.
Attachments are still metadata only, and paid plans only.
Quick Hits
Before we dive in..
Memory prices are up 500% DDR5 climbed roughly 500% in twelve months, with a 128GB kit now listed at $3,399, as manufacturers shift wafer output from commodity DRAM to HBM. Read here.
DOJ is looking at a16z board seats The Justice Department has spent close to a year examining whether Andreessen Horowitz partners breached Section 8 of the Clayton Act by sitting on boards of competing AI and data companies. Read here.
Amazon is cutting the spines off rare books 404 Media put an AirTag in a box of about 1,000 rare books and tracked it to an Amazon facility in Las Vegas dedicated to book scanning for AI training. Read here.
Alipay opened an agentic commerce platform Merchants can turn pages, products, and workflows into agent-readable skills, with KFC, Luckin Coffee, and phone brands covering most of China's smartphone share already integrated. Read here.
Worth Reading
AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Rick Manelius wrote a short essay called "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)," arguing that if someone sends you unedited model output, you are under no obligation to read it. It hit the front page of Hacker News on Sunday with more than 500 comments, which is the real signal here. The payoff is watching an etiquette rule form in public, in real time, about a thing most people are still doing quietly.
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