2026-08-31
GitHub Copilot Proved Autocomplete Was Worth Paying For Five Years Ago. This Week It Dodged the Blow Cursor Just Took
On November 12, OpenAI will cut off Cursor's model access — because SpaceX paid $60 billion to buy it on August 14. Cursor's CEO says OpenAI is only 5% of its traffic, so the cut is more a warning shot than a wound. But in the same story, GitHub Copilot — a product born five years ago running on nothing but OpenAI's models — quietly unhooked itself between April and August this year, ahead of anyone using that dependency as leverage.
