OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor Before Astra | IBM Quantum Claim Challenged

OpenAI is cutting off Cursor's direct model access ahead of Astra, while IBM's claimed quantum advantage already faces a classical challenge.

Jim Love covers the technology headlines for Monday, August 31, 2026.

OpenAI will stop supplying models directly to Cursor on November 12 following Cursor's $60-billion acquisition by SpaceX. OpenAI cites its contract and concerns that model outputs could be used to help train competing xAI systems. Developers can still access OpenAI through standard APIs, Codex and cloud gateways including Amazon Bedrock and Microsoft Azure.

IBM says its quantum computer completed a difficult 70-qubit test in 16.1 minutes while detecting errors and validating its results. Researchers working with Nvidia then reported a classical method using 256 H100 GPUs and projected that a comparable workload could be completed in 10.6 minutes.

Also in this episode: Flock Safety faces 90 municipal cancellations in August; infostealer malware is hijacking authenticated Claude sessions; and New Brunswick introduces a bell-to-bell school phone ban, child-care screen limits and social-media blocking on school networks.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Headlines and introduction
00:47 OpenAI cuts Cursor off before Astra
02:53 IBM's 70-qubit quantum test
04:13 Classical computers challenge IBM
05:34 Flock Safety backlash accelerates
07:53 Infostealers hijack Claude sessions
10:22 New Brunswick's school phone ban
13:08 Wrap-up and credits