May 8, 2026: AI updates from the past week — Coder Agents Launch, Snyk-Claude partnership, Opsera-Cursor partnership, and more

Agile software development has been around since the 1990s, but didn’t get the name until the famous meeting of 17 renowned ...

Opsera and Cursor Partner to Embed Autonomous AI Agents Directly into AI-SDLC Workflows for Next-gen AI-Driven Development

Opsera, the leader in Agentic DevOps, and Cursor, the leading multi-model AI coding platform, today announced a new partnership to bridge the gap between developer velocity and enterprise-grade ...
IEEE

Total Ionizing Dose Hardening of GAA NMOSFETs on Void-Embedded Silicon-on-Insulator Substrate Using a Compensation Doping Approach

Abstract: Gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFETs based on void-embedded silicon-on-insulator (VESOI) substrates demonstrate excellent total ionizing dose (TID) tolerance. However, radiation-induced charge ...
CNBC

SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for 'our work together'

SpaceX said in a post on X that it's obtained the rights to buy coding startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year or pay $10 billion for the work the companies are doing together. "SpaceXAI and ...
SiliconANGLE

AI in coding: Five takeaways from Cursor COO Jordan Topoleski’s fireside chat at NTT Upgrade

The theme of NTT Research Inc.‘s annual user event, Upgrade, in San Jose this week was “Research to Reality,” a reflection of NTT’s desire to balance the academic nature of research with the ...
Business Insider

Elon Musk's xAI plans to supply computing power to coding startup Cursor

Elon Musk's AI company xAI plans to allow Cursor to use some of its compute power for training. Cursor will train its AI model Composer 2.5 using tens of thousands of xAI GPUs, sources said. The ...
GitHub

cursors.md

An application fetches data with a cursor. A cursor is different from a result set: A result set is the set of rows that matches particular search criteria, whereas a cursor is the software that ...
SiliconANGLE

Cursor refreshes its vibe coding platform with focus on AI agents

Startup Cursor today debuted a new version of its popular artificial intelligence coding platform. The release includes features that will make it easier for developers to automate programming tasks ...
Forbes

Why This AI Law Firm Is Ditching The Billable Hour

Ryan Daniels (left) and John Sarihan (right) cofounded AI law firm Crosby in September 2024. Today about 100 companies are clients using it AI to review contracts and get deals done faster. Ross ...
TMCnet

airSlate SignNow Launches MCP Server: From Prompt to Signed - In No Time

BOSTON, March 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- airSlate SignNow, an award-winning provider of e-signature solutions, today announced the launch of the SignNow MCP Server — a Model Context Protocol (MCP) ...
Bloomberg L.P.

AI Data Centers May Not Need Constant Peak Power, Study Finds

AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, according to the results of a UK trial, a finding that could have implications for electricity systems worldwide. Grids from the US ...