PCWorld notes that Microsoft appears to be quietly redesigning the Windows 11 mouse cursor, with evidence surfacing in recent Insider Preview builds. The new cursor features softer, rounded corners and a wider, more symmetrical shape, replacing the older design as part of a broader effort to modernize Windows 11's visual identity. No official release date for the updated cursor has been announced yet. Back in June, Zac Bowden of Windows Central said Microsoft was rumored to be working on a mouse cursor redesign for Windows 11, with no real evidence except hearsay via "whispers" heard "internally." But now it seems that tweet is being vindicated by a preview version of the OS.

OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk's SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup. In a late-night blog post last Friday, OpenAI said it would wind down its partnership with Cursor, the startup behind one of the most popular AI coding tools on the market. The reason OpenAI gave for the decision is effectively that it can't trust Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX recently acquired Cursor in a $60 billion deal. In doing so, OpenAI walked away from one of its most important customers. Cursor has long paid OpenAI fees to offer the ChatGPT-maker's models to developers using its AI coding editor.

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks cursors, wallpaper, and more - what to do if you're affected Here's what to know about the glitch, and the only action you can take for now. The latest Windows 11 update creates a glitch with the mouse cursor. Any personalized settings for the mouse cursor are wiped out or reset. The only option for now is to uninstall the update. Windows 11 users who installed the September preview update are running into a bug that impacts the mouse.

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OpenAI is planning to cut off Cursor's access from its models, following the AI coding assistant's acquisition by SpaceXAI. In a post on its website, the company said it's giving Cursor users as much time as it could based on its contract. It intends to pull its models from the service on November 12, 2026, but it said that Cursor could choose an earlier termination date. The company explained that it's making this choice because it can't be confident that SpaceX will use its technology within its terms of services, based on its "experience with Elon Musk's companies violating contracts." OpenAI and Musk have a long and troubled history, with the SpaceXAI chief being one of the company's earliest investors.

Cursor, the startup that became famous for its AI coding tool, is now officially owned by SpaceX. The companies announced the acquisition in June, but the process apparently started in April, when they teamed up for Cursor's model training efforts. In its announcement, Cursor said that it will now have access to "the largest fleet of GPUs in the world," which will give it the computing capacity to build and train better models that it can offer its customers at a lower cost. SpaceX, which merged with Elon Musk's AI company xAI earlier this year, paid 60 billion for the purchase. In July, xAI officially became SpaceXAI.

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first built with Cursor's help SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first built with Cursor's help SpaceXAI has launched the first Grok model after its rebranding from xAI and the first one it trained with AI company Cursor . The company says Grok 4.5 is its smartest model yet, built specifically to excel at coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work. It was trained across tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs on datasets full of coding, science, engineering and math information. The model, SpaceX claims, outdoes other leading models at real engineering tasks and is highly proficient at creating functional apps with minimal instructions. In the example above, Grok 4.5 was able to generate an interactive simulation of the solar system with a single prompt.

We consider the problem of recovering a mental target (e.g., an image of a face) that a participant has in mind from paired EEG (i.e., brain responses) and image (i.e., perceived faces) data collected during interactive sessions without access to labeled information. The problem has been previously explored with labeled data but not via self-calibration, where labeled data is unavailable. Here, we present the first framework and an algorithm, CURSOR, that learns to recover unknown mental targets without access to labeled data or pre-trained decoders. Our experiments on naturalistic images of faces demonstrate that CURSOR can (1) predict image similarity scores that correlate with human perceptual judgments without any label information, (2) use these scores to rank stimuli against an unknown mental target, and (3) generate new stimuli indistinguishable from the unknown mental target (validated via a user study, N = 53). We release the brain response data set (N = 29), associated face images used as stimuli data, and a codebase to initiate further research on this novel task.

SpaceX staff and guests celebrate the company's IPO in New York on Friday. SpaceX staff and guests celebrate the company's IPO in New York on Friday. SpaceX overtakes Amazon to become world's fifth most valuable company Elon Musk's firm briefly reached $2.97tn valuation days after its IPO following purchase of AI coding startup Cursor SpaceX has overtaken Amazon to become the world's fifth most valuable company days after its stock market debut . The milestone came as Elon Musk's company agreed to buy the startup behind the AI-powered coding app Cursor for $60bn (£44bn), in an attempt to capitalise on the technology's success as a coding tool. SpaceX is the parent of Musk's AI business, xAI, which will be able to boost its capabilities in an area - AI systems writing code - that has proven to be a strong commercial success for Anthropic, the rival company behind the Claude chatbot.

Musk's SpaceX buys AI coding start-up for $60bn days after IPO SpaceX has agreed to buy AI coding start-up Cursor for $60bn (£45bn) just days after its bumper initial public offering (IPO). Elon Musk's rocket company will take over Anysphere, which makes the artificial intelligence coding agent. The move comes after SpaceX joined New York's tech-focused Nasdaq stock exchange on Friday in the biggest ever listing, valuing it at more than $2tn and raising $85.7bn . A surge in SpaceX's share price on Monday and Tuesday saw the company overtake Amazon to become the world's fifth most valuable company. The companies have been partners since April, when SpaceX announced it had the right to either buy it for $60bn, or pay $10bn for the work they have done together.