1. Cursor Built Its Coding Model on a Chinese AI. Its Users Had No Idea. Cursor, an AI coding assistant competing with GitHub Copilot for developer adoption, confirmed this week that its newest model runs on top of Kimi, built by Beijing-based Moonshot AI.

2. AI Compute Demand Drives Musk, Amazon, and Tinygrad to Build Their Own Hardware Three announcements landed within days of each other, from companies that share almost nothing in scale or resources.

3. AI Vendors Flooded GDC While Crimson Desert Apologized for Actually Using It Walk the GDC show floor this year and you'd think generative AI had already conquered game development.

In Brief

• EFF Warns Publisher Blocks on Internet Archive Threaten One Trillion Archived Pages The New York Times and The Guardian now block Internet Archive's Wayback Machine crawlers, ostensibly to fight AI scraping. The Archive holds over one trillion web pages collected across three decades. Wikipedia links to 2.6 million news articles preserved by the Archive across 249 languages — all now at risk. EFF

• DoorDash Pays Gig Workers to Record Themselves Doing Chores for AI Training DoorDash's new Tasks app pays workers to film mundane activities — laundry, cooking, walking — to generate training data for AI models. The app turns gig workers into on-demand data laborers alongside their delivery shifts. Wired

• Companies Start Offering AI Token Budgets as Part of Engineering Compensation Some employers now bundle AI API token allowances into engineering job offers alongside salary, equity, and benefits. TechCrunch reports the trend raises questions about whether tokens are a genuine perk or an expense companies are shifting onto workers. TechCrunch

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