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Windsurf is an AI-powered coding assistant and IDE that integrates large language models into software development workflows, competing with tools like Cursor.
n8n has opened its MCP tools to agent hosts including Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, so their agents can build and edit workflows from inside the coding tool. The workflows still run in n8n, so each host a team connects is one more place that can change a live automation.
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Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf, OpenClaw and Hermes each expect a different JSON config for the same MCP server, according to a dev.to guide. Its fix generates each file from code and adds two server-side shims for requests a config file cannot correct.
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OpenAI has served SpaceX notice on its Cursor contract with a proposed Nov. 12, 2026 shutoff, which leaves anyone who standardized on Cursor with a dated job of naming the models each workflow needs and their substitutes.
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OpenAI plans to end Cursor's direct access to its models on November 12, citing doubts that SpaceX will stay inside its terms of service. Whether developers can still bring their own OpenAI keys remains unclear.
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A dev.to writeup traces roughly 3,800 exfiltrated GitHub repositories to one trojanised Nx Console install from the official Marketplace, where the sandbox that would have contained it has been an open feature request since 2018.
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Vendor pages for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code and Windsurf, re-checked on 2026-09-12, show that all five resume a previous session. The complaint about agents forgetting points at the other three questions.
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Headless 360 makes capabilities that used to sit behind the Salesforce console callable as APIs, MCP tools and CLI commands, and more than 60 of the new tools point coding agents such as Claude Code and Cursor at live orgs.
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The Series E takes company-reported run-rate from $492M to close to $900M in four months, but nothing in the announcement says how much of that is Devin agent work and how much is Windsurf editor seats.
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The Series E doubled the valuation while run-rate revenue rose 83% to nearly $900m, so the price per dollar of revenue barely moved, which leaves the undisclosed gross margin under an $800m compute burn as the open question.
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OpenAI says it cannot be confident SpaceX will honour its terms, so one of its largest customers loses access. For anyone reselling model capacity, that puts an ownership-change risk in the stack no clause covers.
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The round is still under negotiation, but the multiple it implies will outlast the negotiation. That multiple is the figure every seller of coding agents will get measured against the next time procurement asks why the seat price moved.
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Swapping similarity search for a dependency graph took one engineer's review context from 150,000 tokens to 18,000. The saving is file count, not compression, so it holds only where the change sits in a sparse corner of the tree.
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A denial of a Bloomberg report on SpaceX buying Cognition leaves the compute relationship unaddressed, and leaves buyers choosing coding tools from a shrinking independent field.
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Bloomberg says SpaceX approached Cognition. Its CEO says no talks happened. Either way, the pattern is compute traded for developer data, and that reprices any single-vendor coding bet.
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The vendor reports 10-plus CVEs and up to 200,000 exposed instances, and says Anthropic declined to change the protocol, describing the behaviour as expected.
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PDF4me's guide wires the same server into five clients using three structurally different config blocks. Get the shape wrong and no client raises an error.
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