SpaceX now owns Cursor. Nothing about your plan changed.
The $60 billion deal for Cursor's maker closed on 14 August, putting the editor, its models and Grok under one owner — with no pricing announcement attached.
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Tool news that actually changes what you should buy, drop, or budget for. Every story is confirmed against at least two independent sources before we publish it.
Claude now watermarks its output, and you cannot switch it off
Anthropic has begun marking generated text at the model level to meet EU rules, but the tools to read the mark are not public yet.
ShipMonk was breached. Its client brands are hearing it late.
A fulfilment provider lost names, phone numbers and shipping addresses for nearly 14,000 of one client's customers, and has said nothing publicly.
Shopify's Stocky closes 31 August. Copy your suppliers by hand.
The inventory app bundled with POS Pro shuts down at the end of the month, and supplier records are the one thing Shopify cannot export for you.
Tally and n8n exposed logins through a Metabase zero-day
A maximum-severity flaw in the dashboard tool your vendors use to read their own customer data let attackers walk out with account records.
Oracle halved its free ARM tier and told almost nobody
The Always Free Ampere allowance fell from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB to 2 and 12, with no announcement and no changelog entry.
ChatGPT Atlas closes August 9. Nothing exports itself.
OpenAI is retiring its standalone browser after about a month's notice, and bookmarks, tabs, history and logins do not carry over to anything.
Bending Spoons is buying Airtable. Export your bases.
The Nasdaq-listed roll-up that already owns Evernote and WeTransfer signed an all-cash deal for Airtable on August 4 — nothing changes yet, which is exactly when to prepare.
Relay.app is closing. Free accounts stop on August 15.
The automation tool is winding down with no reason given, no buyer and no successor — and anything you have not exported by your deadline is deleted.
Claude Opus 5 is out. If you pay for Claude, you have it.
Anthropic's new default model on Claude Max costs the same per token as Opus 4.8 but lands near its top Fable 5 model on many tasks, with a dial to trade cost for capability.
Private equity is buying DistroKid. Nothing changes yet.
CVC has agreed to a majority stake and no pricing change has been announced — but the deal is a good prompt to check the renewal date that keeps your catalogue online.
Microsoft 365 Standard is now $14. Premium didn't move.
The July 1 increase adds $18 per seat per year on Business Standard and folds Copilot Chat into the base plan, with no described way to decline it.
Bending Spoons is public. Go audit your subscriptions.
The Milan roll-up that owns Evernote, WeTransfer and Harvest listed on Nasdaq on July 1 with a stated pipeline of 1,000-plus more targets — here is how to check your own stack.
Notion Mail closes Sept 22. Export your drafts by the 21st.
Your email is safe in Gmail, but the drafts, scheduled sends, snippets and auto labels you built inside Notion Mail are deleted unless you pull them out first.
Continue.dev is discontinued. Time to migrate off it.
Cursor bought the team and wound the product down. The open-source code survives under Apache 2.0, but the hosted service is dead and its cloud data was deleted on 15 July.
MailerLite cuts free tier to 250 subs, deadline Aug 13
The free plan lost half its subscriber cap and about 80% of its send volume, and over-limit accounts get locked out of sending and editing after August 13.
The vendor you never signed with had a key to your CRM
A dead 2022 credential at a sales-intelligence company you have probably never heard of exposed CRM records belonging to customers of LastPass, Snyk, Gong, Jamf and dozens more.
Copilot's flat rate is gone. The $10 price tag isn't.
GitHub Copilot now meters most AI features against a monthly credit pool that doesn't roll over — the sticker price held, but what it buys is now variable.
Atlassian ties your AI data control to what you pay
From August 17, Jira and Confluence content feeds Atlassian's AI by default on cheap plans — and only Enterprise can refuse metadata collection at all.