OpenAI Pulls Out of Cursor After Musk's SpaceX Buys It, Court Sides With Anthropic
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 31st, 2026. OpenAI announced it's removing its models from coding platform Cursor by November 12th, citing Elon Musk's history of violating contracts as the reason, stretching the wind down as far as its contract allows following last month's SpaceX acquisition of Cursor, with Musk responding simply that he couldn't care less while Cursor's CEO pushed back, noting OpenAI only accounts for about 5% of the platform's overall traffic. A federal judge ruled that the Pentagon broke the law when it blacklisted Anthropic as a supply chain risk…
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