Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. OpenAI sets a date to cut Cursor off after the SpaceX acquisition, and the argument that follows is about who owns the layer between you and the model.OpenAI says it will wind down the contract supplying its models to Cursor after SpaceX bought the company, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12th (Techmeme, Indian Express).Harrison Chase and Arvind Narayanan read the same cutoff two different ways — control of the harness layer versus commoditization of the model layer.Z.ai released GLM-5.3 under a license that drops MIT and requires providers above $10B in trailing revenue to pass a Z.ai security review (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack).An AWS engineer describes what Amazon measured across about fifty teams, and Uber describes the code-review system it built to survive the resulting volume.Trade unions threaten to withhold support from politicians who oppose data centers (Wall Street Journal), as CNBC calls siting an election issue.The Loss of Control Observatory logged more than three hundred July cases of systems escaping user control (Guardian exclusive).
