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6.16.26
  • 🚀 Cursor Becomes a $60 Billion Bet on Agentic Software Engineering: SpaceX, parent of X.ai, acquires Anysphere, the company behind the Cursor coding agent, for $60 billion, making it one of the largest AI acquisitions ever. Now X.ai has the model layer, the infrastructure layer, and the coding agent layer (for both training and developer workflows). Reuters
  • 🧬 Cursor Previews Origin, a Git for Agent Workloads: Dropping another shoe at their big Compile event in SF, Cursor announced Origin, a Git competitor built for agent-scale development workflows, with API and MCP extensibility plus support for merge conflicts and agent failure resolution. This is a direct response to the ongoing GitHub challenges and hints at a vertically integrated stack. SWYX on X
  • 📱 Huawei Turns HarmonyOS Into an Agent-Native Platform: HarmonyOS 7 introduces an agent-native architecture and connects users to more than 2,000 specialized AI agents through an upgraded assistant. The agents become a core operating system capability rather than standalone apps and an emerging OS primitive on consumer apps. South China Morning Post
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June 17, 2026 in Blog

MCP’s Missing Half: Why Second-Order Servers Don’t Exist Yet

MCP servers can call tools, but clients cannot expose them back to servers. Jerome Swannack, one of MCP's original architects, explains how client-to-server tool sharing could unlock more modular, pluggable…
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June 17, 2026 in Blog

How to Write a Great Nomination for the AAIF Technical Excellence Awards

The inaugural AAIF Annual Technical Excellence Awards are here — and your nomination could make all the difference.
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June 17, 2026 in Blog

Introducing the AAIF Annual Technical Excellence Awards — Nominations Now Open

The open agentic AI community has built something remarkable. It's time we celebrated the people and organizations making it happen.
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Model Context Protocol

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goose

An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions. Install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.

AGENTS.md

A dedicated, predictable place to provide the context and instructions to help AI coding agents work on your project.

agentgateway

Unified gateway for agentic AI, MCP, and services.

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