🍭 Cursor Built a Brain 🧠

Good morning. If you got laid off by AI, just tell people you’re “between models.”

Let’s dig in. 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Cursor 2.0 built a brain (and made agents the main dish)

• Big Tech is laying off white-collar in the name of “efficiency”

• Grammarly → Superhuman, Google x Reliance, YouTube’s AI reorg, Nvidia’s Poolside bet

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🧠 Cursor Built a Brain

The Bite: Cursor just dropped its biggest update yet: Cursor 2.0 — and this time, it didn’t just add features. It grew a brain. The team launched Composer, their own in-house model, so they’re no longer renting smarts from OpenAI. The new release makes Cursor feel less like a code editor and more like a tiny dev team living in your laptop — fast, opinionated, and slightly judgmental.

Snacks:

• Meet Composer. Cursor’s first home-grown model — same name as their old “compose” feature (bold choice, but it kinda works).
  

• Multi-agent flow. You can spin up to eight agents at once, each isolated in its own git worktree or remote machine.
  

• Agent-first UX. Chats now feel central — code just happens to be the by-product.
  

• Latency flex. Running their own model means snappier replies and less “one sec…” energy.
  

• Big picture. Cursor’s quietly morphing from “AI IDE” into “agent OS for building things.”

Why it Bites: Cursor realized that if they kept depending on outside models, they’d always be a feature — not a frontier. By building their own brain, they turned the whole IDE game agent-first. It’s no longer you coding faster with AI — it’s you leading a swarm of mini-engineers. Cursor 2.0 doesn’t just write code; it conducts it.

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🧠 You Need to Know

🦸‍♂️ Grammarly Rebrands to Superhuman + Launches AI Work Platform

→ Grammarly changed its name to Superhuman and dropped a new AI assistant (“Superhuman Go”) alongside integrations across email, docs, calendars and over 100 apps, shifting from writing-tool to full productivity platform.

🤝 Google + Reliance Industries Roll Out AI Freebie for India

→ Google is partnering with Reliance Intelligence to give eligible Jio users free 18-month access to Google’s AI Pro plan (Gemini 2.5 Pro, 2 TB cloud, image/video tools) via MyJio app.

😭 YouTube Restructures Teams to Prioritise AI, Offers U.S. Buyouts

→ YouTube announced a reorg into three new divisions (Viewer, Creator & Community, Subscriptions) and is offering voluntary exit packages for U.S. staffers as it pivots workforce to build AI-first products.

🦺 OpenAI OSS Safeguard: AI Governance Gets Open-Source Tooling

→ OpenAI released “GPT OSS Safeguard,” a new open-source framework aimed at auditing, tracking and regulating the lifecycle of generative AI models for transparency and compliance.

💰 Nvidia to invest up to $1 B in AI startup Poolside AI

→ Nvidia is reportedly committing up to $1 billion in Poolside AI, which specializes in AI-coding assistants and is raising a $2 billion round at ~$12 billion valuation; the deal reflects Nvidia’s deepening play in the agent/dev tooling layer.

_{Tech Layoffs}
😭 Tech Just Fired the People AI Was Supposed to “Help”

The Bite: Over the past two weeks, Amazon, Microsoft, and a handful of other giants quietly cut tens of thousands of white-collar roles. Add it up and you’re looking at six figures worth of layoffs since mid-October — all under the banner of “efficiency” and “AI transformation.” The irony? AWS and Azure have both been glitching hard at the same time. It’s giving “we replaced too many humans before the robots finished onboarding.”

Snacks:

• Amazon’s latest trim. Another ~14,000 corporate roles gone, mostly from AWS, Alexa, and HR — with “AI realignment” cited as the reason.
  

• Copycat cuts. Microsoft, Target, Intel, and others are downsizing their corporate teams too — especially roles that sit between engineers and AI tooling.
  

• The efficiency era. Every exec deck says the same thing: “We’re reallocating to AI.” AKA: agents are cheaper than analysts.
  

• Cloud chaos. AWS’s US-East region and Microsoft Azure both suffered multi-hour outages right after those layoffs. Timing that would make a meme jealous.
  

• Human redundancy ≠ system resilience. Turns out, trimming people doesn’t fix fragile infra. Sometimes it just leaves no one around to reboot it.

Why it bites: Lately, “AI will take your job” sounded like something TechCrunch said to get clicks.

Now it’s just a calendar invite with a severance link.

The white-collar bubble popped the moment companies realized that agents could replace middle layers faster than those layers could learn to prompt.

But the crash course in “efficiency” is exposing a deeper flaw:
AI may scale faster than stability does.

Is this is the new corporate rhythm — cut now, automate later — 2026 will be the year half of middle management learns to prompt… or pack.