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Last verified 21 August 2026
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Cursor expands cloud agents with event subscriptions and long-running goals
Cursor released cloud-agent updates that let agents monitor pull requests, Slack threads, and scheduled tasks; pursue persistent goals; run subagents in isolated virtual machines; and continue fixing CI or bot feedback with less step-by-step intervention.
Can I Vibecode It? turns SaaS replacement into a viral public catalogue
The open-source project grades whether coding agents can recreate paid SaaS products and publishes the prompts and trade-offs. Its creator reported 60,000 page views from 15,000 visitors in its first 72 hours; on 19 August, the site listed 1,093 apps while GitHub showed 247 stars, 173 forks and an active contribution queue.
Cursor launched Origin in early beta for paid plans, adding hosted repositories, GitHub synchronization, pull requests, code browsing, agent access, and integrations with Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite.
Lovable raises $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation
Lovable announced a $400 million Series C led by Menlo Ventures and EQT’s Scaleup Europe Fund. The company attributed more than 60 million projects and over 900 million monthly visits to its platform, while noting that these are company-reported figures.
Lovable adds automatically generated trust centers to published apps
Lovable began giving every publicly published app a dedicated trust page showing observed controls such as HTTPS enforcement, dependency checks, software bills of materials, deployment traceability, database authorization reviews, and row-level security status. Lovable explicitly says the pages are informational and not certifications.
Cursor released plugins for Gmail, Google Drive and Google Calendar, allowing its agents to retrieve workspace context and carry out supported mail, file and scheduling actions.
Lovable enables per-user connectors for published apps
Lovable shipped app-user connectors that let each end user connect services such as Google, Microsoft, Slack, Salesforce, or HubSpot using their existing permissions. The platform says credentials remain outside the app and browser while its gateway handles authorization and token refresh.
Figma acquires the team behind Bud, formerly Orchids
Figma acquired the team behind the vibe-coding and agent platform Bud, previously called Orchids. The service announced a shutdown while the team moved to Figma.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5 for coding and agents
Anthropic released Sonnet 5 across Claude plans, Claude Code and its API, positioning it as a more capable agentic Sonnet for planning, tool use and coding.
The open-source React framework for MCP apps ranked number two for the day and number five for the week, reflecting growing interest in interactive applications that run inside AI assistants.
SafeHill acquires Arcane Security for vibe-coding security products
SafeHill announced its acquisition of Arcane Security and said Arcane’s founders would lead Helix and Sentinel, AI-powered code-security and validation agents positioned for vibe-coding workflows, alongside the HygenIQ internal-network testing product.
Google AI Studio expands into full-stack vibe coding
Google upgraded AI Studio with its Antigravity coding agent and Firebase integrations for building applications with databases, multiplayer features and connections to external services.