ChatGPT Work, Cursor’s OpenAI Cutoff, and AI Essay Scoring | UpNext AI – August 31, 2026
ChatGPT Work is gaining more agent-like capabilities, while OpenAI prepares to end its model contract with Cursor following Cursor’s acquisition by SpaceX. Plus, a new study examines AI-assisted scoring of secondary-school essays.
Covered in this episode:
- Simon Willison’s practitioner analysis of ChatGPT Work, including browser, code-execution, persistent-file, and sub-agent capabilities.
- OpenAI’s proposed November 12, 2026 shutdown of its model contract with Cursor.
- A Moroccan secondary-education benchmark of AI tools for essay scoring against human references.
- Reports that public…
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