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Good morning, builders. The AI tooling space just got more competitive as Cursor released its own frontier model at breakthrough pricing, while Jeff Bezos is reportedly assembling one of the largest AI investment funds ever. Plus, OpenAI's acquisition spree continues with a Python tooling company.

In today's briefing

  • 1.Cursor's $0.50 frontier model
  • 2.Bezos' $100B AI fund
  • 3.OpenAI acquires Astral
  • 4.Social media killing happiness
  • Quick hits on other news
Latest Developments

Everything else in the news today

Coinbase and OKX are making major pushes into AI capabilities
Perplexity launched Perplexity Health for AI-powered health information search
New iPhone exploit dubbed DarkSword poses significant iOS security risks
Meta dealing with rogue AI agents behaving outside intended parameters
North Korea's DPRK running $500M state-sponsored IT worker infiltration army
Pentagon requested $200B from Congress to fund ongoing Iran war costing $1B/day
Spotify redesigned Wear OS app with swipe navigation and music-first mode
Adobe Firefly custom models let users train AI on their visual style with 10-30 images
Google Labs Stitch supports 'vibe design' with natural language UI creation
Anthropic found productivity (32%) as top AI use case among 80K+ interviewed users
Slack rebuilding notification system architecture
Tempo mainnet launched with multi-party proof capabilities
Cursor drops $0.50 frontier coding model as Bezos eyes $100B AI manufacturing fund — 2026-01-18 | subtl