Last Friday, thousands of developers opened their AI code editor and found out that one of the models inside it has an expiration date. OpenAI announced it is terminating its contract with Cursor, effective November 12, 2026. The trigger was not anything Cursor did. It was who bought them. SpaceX completed its $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, in mid-August. OpenAI's contract had a change-of-control clause, and the moment ownership changed, a short cancellation ...