The broadcaster has made a huge donation to help Peter Melhuish achieve his sporting dream hours after his wedding

Piers Morgan has donated £1,000 to help a cricket-loving groom fly straight from his wedding in north Wales to Lord’s in time to play in a dream cup final.

Peter Melhuish is due to marry his fiancée Izzy Upton in Groesffordd Marli, near Abergele in north Wales on September 5 – less than 24 hours before he is supposed to take to the field for Blackheath Cricket Club in the National Village Cup final at Lord’s.

The extraordinary bid to get the 32-year-old to the match has now received a major boost after broadcaster Morgan donated £1,000 to the Crowdfunder, which has gone past its £4,500 fundraising target.

The appeal had raised £5,340 from 112 supporters when last checked, with the money going towards the estimated £10,000 cost of a helicopter flight from north Wales to London.

Club members had already put £5,500 towards the cost before the public appeal was launched, meaning the target was set at £4,500.

Morgan said on the crowd funding page: “As someone who also comes from Guildford and has also always dreamed of playing in the village cup final at Lord’s, I’m very glad you will now be living my dream. Good luck Peter!”

The Crowdfunder says Pete and Izzy need to leave their wedding in north Wales on September 5 and reach Lord’s by 10am the following morning.

It says a helicopter is the only way they can make the journey in the time available, with the flight expected to take just over an hour.

Melhuish, who first joined Surrey-based club Blackheath aged six, admitted the club’s run to the final had created an unusual problem after he and Izzy planned their wedding for the Saturday after his club’s local league season was due to finish.

But they had not anticipated Blackheath reaching the final of the nationwide competition, which is played on Sundays by village and local cricket clubs from across the UK.

“It’d be amazing if we can afford it and pull something together,” Melhuish told the BBC.

“The only other way is a 5am taxi down from the wedding which wouldn’t be much fun.

“It’s amazing how the club are pulling together and helping us with it.

“It’s really nice to have that support from them.”

And the groom revealed his bride-to-be had been hugely supportive of his extraordinary attempt to make the match.

“We’ve been organising the wedding for well over a year so the fixtures for the Village Cup hadn’t even come out when we started organising it,” he said.

“She’s been really supportive and very understanding of how much it means, not just to me but the club too.”

A unique chance to live and work in beautiful surroundings.

A “superb” job opportunity in Scotland has come up, with an estate advertising new live-in positions for a couple. The roles include a “competitive” salary, as well as comfortable and private on-site accommodation that has been described as being in “excellent condition”.

At the moment, a private estate in Perth and Kinross is looking to hire two people to act as a housekeeper and maintenance gardener. The unique jobs come with a “competitive salary” that is based on experience, and they will be long-term positions “for the right couple”.

The private accommodation that will be provided to the successful candidates is in “excellent condition” and is situated on the estate, separate to the main house. Featuring one-bedroom, it will allow the couple to live independently while being conveniently placed to support the family and care for the property.

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Among the housekeeping tasks that the couple will be responsible for are the daily cleaning and care of rooms, the making and changing of beds, and the preparation of the house for guests and entertaining. You will also be expected to dust, polish, and vacuum, as well as maintain household stocks.

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Cooking tasks will revolve around the preparation of simple and nutritious family meals, meaning you will cook breakfasts, lunches, and dinners as required. You will also be catering for informal family entertaining, and will be expected to shop for provisions and keep the kitchen clean and organised.

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According to the job listing, the ideal applicants will have previous experience working together as a couple in a private household or similar setting. The candidates must also possess strong housekeeping and organisational skills, as well as a good attention to detail and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

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Celtic were beaten 5-4 on aggregate by LASK in the Champions League play-off round on Tuesday night and manager Martin O’Neill knows his side will have to respond against Falkirk

Martin O’Neill reckons Celtic must demonstrate the traditional Hoops “character” when they face Falkirk this weekend, following their disastrous Champions League play-off exit to LASK on Tuesday evening.

The Scottish champions had built a commanding 3-0 lead from the first leg in Glasgow, and captain Callum McGregor’s deflected effort after 21 minutes in Austria appeared to put the tie beyond doubt.

Yet an extraordinary capitulation saw the Austrian side storm back to triumph 5-4 on aggregate following extra-time, condemning Celtic to the less financially rewarding and less prestigious league phase of the Europa League.

O’Neill, whose initial stint as permanent Celtic boss ran from 2000 to 2005, secured the William Hill Premiership crown and Scottish Gas Scottish Cup last term, but he’s well aware that supporters, still smarting from missing out on Champions League football, will demand a strong showing against the Bairns on Saturday.

“I’ve known this from my time at this football club, you’re always one game away from a crisis, and that’s the case,” said the 74-year-old Celtic manager, who disclosed that McGregor sat out training due to a stomach complaint, though there’s optimism he’ll be available.

“It’s a major disappointment to get knocked out of the competition, particularly carrying a lead and certainly with 60 minutes to go and we are looking in real control of the game.

“They’ve had a couple of skirmishes but we have had the better chances in the game. And to let it slip in the manner in which we did is, that is my responsibility.

“And so we have to go and and really show, I know it’s an overused word, the character. We have to show a lot of character.

“And there’ll be moments in the game tomorrow, misplaced passes, allowing Falkirk in, shots at goal and maybe even going a goal behind in the game, where the crowd are going to get really restless. Absolutely, so we have to fight that.

“But that’s been the case even in my days with (Henrik) Larsson and (Neil) Lennon, (Paul) Lambert, it was the case then, so that doesn’t change. And you know what? I wouldn’t expect it to. We can’t live in laurels for the rest of our time.

“Last season was just fantastic one of the great moments but it’s gone, and I’ve had some really great moments in my time, and I’ve had some real lows, like everything else.

“One of the great highs was us winning the league (last season) and one of the major lows was losing this game the other night. It doesn’t get any easier at 74 years of age. In fact, it gets worse.”

Meanwhile, in the Europa League draw, Celtic face away trips to Benfica, Union SG, Omonia and Torreense, while hosting Marseille, Ferencvaros, Celta Vigo and Besiktas at home.

O’Neill said: “Yes, gosh, it is really tough. I probably still haven’t got over the game on Tuesday night, but it’s something to look forward to. Some really big games there.

“I’ve got the list here in my pocket and Marseille and Benfica, I never read any further after that.

“But, listen, it’s not the day for fun and games, Tuesday was really disappointing, we just have to try and get over it if we can.”

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Richard Osman has reflected on his challenging upbringing as he admitted his mum ‘struggled forever’ after his dad walked out on the family after confessing to an extra-marital affair.

The TV star was just nine years old when his dad David announced he was having an affair before leaving his wife Brenda and children in Sussex and relocating to Warwickshire with his new partner.

Brenda, now 84, took a range of menial jobs before becoming a primary schoolteacher, but Richard admitted they didn’t have ‘money, or freedom’.

However after a successful career as a best-selling author and TV presenter, Richard  has used his earnings to help his mum after she struggled throughout his childhood. 

‘I’ve made sure my mum doesn’t have to struggle, because she struggled forever. It’s freedom, money. Because I didn’t have freedom and anybody who grew up without money knows that.’ 

He told The Times: ‘I’ve got more money than when I was growing up, that’s for sure. I’ve made sure my family are safe and secure.’

Brenda lives in a retirement home in Sussex which provided the inspiration behind his hit series The Thursday Murder Club.

After his father left the family home, Richard explained that the whole side of that family cut contact with Richard’s side of the family.

‘It’s OK. The other side of my family more than made up for it. They’re a lovely bunch. We fetishise our family a bit.’

Richard previously said he had no interest in learning about his paternal family during his appearance on Who Do You Think You Are in 2022. 

Speaking to Radio Times, Richard described his father’s walking out as the worst thing to ever happen to him.

When they met 20 years later, they didn’t bond, which left the quiz show host with no desire to discover more about his forebears when the opportunity for Who Do You Think You Are arose.

‘My dad’s side of the family wasn’t something I was interested in because that’s not the family I grew up in. It would, in a funny way, be like learning about strangers,’ he told the publication.

Richard shared a close bond with his grandfather, Tom ‘Fred’ Wright: ‘So much of what I am I owe to him,’ he says on the show, adding that he would have loved to have followed in his footsteps and been a detective.

He said: ‘I’ve made sure my mum doesn’t have to struggle, because she struggled forever. It’s freedom, money. Because I didn’t have freedom and anybody who grew up without money knows that'(pictured with his older brother Mat who is the bass guitarist of Suede) 

Richard has also been open about how his father leaving the family triggered his ‘shameful and bizarre’ battle with food addiction.

The star believes his issues with food served as a coping mechanism as he struggled through childhood without an adequate father figure.

‘It’s traumatic, that’s for sure,’ the presenter explained during an episode of John Robins’ How Do You Cope? podcast in April. 

‘It’s difficult to put yourself back in your nine-year old brain. What do you know when you’re nine? Nothing, but you know family, and you know that there’s a certainty when you go home, and that’s ripped from you, so that would be a trauma for certain.

‘I would say that I didn’t deal with that trauma. This happened in the 1970s, which was a very different time, and it wasn’t the done thing to talk about it. So long as I looked OK, that was OK for everyone else.’

He added: ‘I was able to subsume it, put it to the back of my brain and not deal with it in any way; the more modern thinking is that’s not very healthy. But I’ve always had a very quick brain so I was able to find routes through this pain I was feeling and through this betrayal that I felt, and show a face to the world that was comfortable, and happy, and secure, and bits of me were, but it catches up with you.

‘I would say in my late twenties and early thirties, I’d run out of road with this new person I’d created, this person who was able to hide from pain and run from pain, and tell a different narrative.

‘That was gone, so I had to deal with it then because I didn’t deal with it when I was nine, because how could I deal with it when I was nine?’

There is just four days left of the summer window, meaning time is running out for the likes of Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham to finalise deals before Tuesday’s deadline. The three biggest deals in the offing could see Julian Alvarez join the Gunners, as Liverpool book a medical for Bradley Barcola and Enzo Fernandez pushes to join Man City.

Harry and Meghan should look for a Royal Family reset following damage done by their 2020 departure, Jennie Bond says, provided the Palace makes a similar effort

Prince Harry should issue an apology following his return to the UK with Meghan Markle, a royal expert has said, but Buckingham Palace should return the favour.

Royal commentator Jennie Bond said an apology from the Duke and Duchess of Sussex “would be nice” as they prepare to set up their new lives. They returned to the country after years abroad in California, in the US, last week, where they travelled following a major schism with the rest of the Royal Family in 2020.

Jennie, while welcoming the couple and calling for Brits to “reset” their attitudes towards them, has asked the former working royals to do the same, and made a similar plea to King Charles III.

Speaking on Sky News this morning, she said it “would be nice” for Meghan and Harry to apologise to the rest of the family.

She said: An apology would be nice from Harry and Meghan because they have said and done things that have been deeply hurtful. A recognition, acknowledgement from the Palace that they could have done things better, perhaps.”

Jennie suggested the couple could keep the repairs under-wraps and pave the way for a more “civil” relationship. She added: “That all could be done privately, then surely they could all move forward, and we could move forward and be civil.”

But the royal commentator stopped short of saying the Royal Family should completely repatch their relations with Meghan and Harry.

She said: “The brothers don’t have to be that close any more, they don’t have to be best buddies. But can they not have a civil and courteous relationship?” Sources have claimed that William was left deeply hurt by Harry’s airing of family grievances in interviews and his autobiography Spare, which released in 2023.

Ms Bond previously said that Prince Harry and Meghan could prove a distraction from the royals and their work – and could annoy the King and Prince William.

She told the Mirror last week that the working royals face a “very real prospect” of having their duties overshadowed by the Sussexes after their return. She said: “One of the biggest challenges facing the working royals at the moment is the very real prospect of their work being overshadowed by anything the Sussexes do, at least whilst we all get used to them being back in the UK.

“And that’s a distraction that will annoy the King and — especially— William. I’m afraid it will all be seen as something of a competition in the next few months, particularly as Harry tries to get more publicity for his Invictus Games.

“And, until the novelty of having him and the family back in the UK wears off, it’s a competition that Harry will probably win.

“And that will mean less news coverage for the work his family are doing on behalf of the country and for the charities and campaigns they spend their lives supporting.” Harry and Meghan landed in Birmingham, with a private jet reportedly belonging to the couple having been spotted at the city’s major airport, on Wednesday.

They and the other royals have remained tight-lipped on the arrival, with no official statements yet released by either camp.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — At least 27 people have been killed following a Russian attack on the Bucha district, close to the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, officials said Saturday.

Tymur Tkachenko, head of the local regional military administration, said that at least 50 residential buildings had been damaged in the attack, which also sparked a large-scale fire that spread to homes and a restaurant.

In a statement, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a warehouse had been struck in the village of Myla “followed by a detonation.”

He did not give details on the site, but wrote in the same message that criminal proceedings had been opened on charges of official negligence.

“There are regulations in place – ammunition cannot be stored near homes or other residential areas,” Zelenskyy said.

The Ukrainian leader wrote that a care home for elderly people and people with disabilities and residential buildings were damaged.

“More than 370 people have already been evacuated, and the evacuation is ongoing,” he said.

Almost constant air raids in Kyiv have now reached their third day, choking the economy in the Ukrainian capital and severely disrupting civilian life more than 4½ years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor.

A common sweetener used in jam and chewing gum has been linked to increased risks of heart attacks and stroke, a new study has shown.

The artificial sweetener xylitol is widely used in foods, drinks and toothpaste to replace sugar – often at 1,000 times the amount found in foods naturally.

In the largest study of its kind into the effects of xylitol on major cardiovascular events, such as a stroke or death, researchers from the Charité University Hospital in Berlin found higher blood levels were associated with greater risks.

Researchers looked at data from 17,710 participants over several years, comparing the 25 per cent with the highest levels of xylitol in their blood to the 25 per cent with the lowest.

Over six years, they found people with the highest levels of xylitol in their blood had a substantially greater risk – 57 per cent – of major cardiovascular events compared to those with the lowest. The difference in risk between the highest and lowest over 30 years was 18 per cent.

The findings were presented on Saturday in Munich at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) annual congress, the world’s largest heart conference.

In previous studies, we showed that xylitol can enhance the ability of platelets to form clots,” said presenter Dr Marco Witkowski from the Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany.

He added: “We also found that high blood levels of xylitol were linked to cardiovascular events in high-risk individuals over a 3-year period.Here we studied if xylitol increases cardiovascular events in a larger sample of the general population over much longer follow-up.”

The research also showed the increased risk linked to xylitol levels was consistent regardless of age and sex, and independent of other risk factors such as body mass index, hypertension and diabetes.

“Artificial sweeteners are consumed by people who think they are healthier than sugar and they are generally regarded as safe by regulatory agencies.”

“Our long-term findings in the general population highlight how little we know about the cardiovascular safety of xylitol and indicate that further studies are warranted, especially as the amount of xylitol in products continues to increase,” Dr Witkowski concluded.

The US has threatened to oppose Britain’s claim to the Falklands if Andy Burnham does not increase defence spending.

Officials in Washington are said to be pushing the UK towards meeting Nato‘s 5 per cent spending pledge, with one revealing ‘nothing is being ruled out’ in conversations over the matter.

The proposal will likely heap pressure on the Prime Minister, as well as his Chancellor, John Healey, who has been accused of ‘surrender’ after it emerged he had shelved his own defence spending target.

Mr Healey was branded a ‘sell out’, ‘hypocrite’ and accused of putting ‘welfare over warfare’ as it emerged he will delay setting a date for hitting 3 per cent of GDP on defence spending.

Critics have said it raised fresh questions about Labour‘s commitment to defence and security of the nation and warned it threatens to sour relations with Washington, which has been calling for greater spending among European allies for years.

They note Mr Healey resigned as Defence Secretary just two months ago under Sir Keir Starmer after the former Prime Minister’s military investment plan failed to commit to spending 3 per cent by 2030.

On Thursday it emerged the Chancellor won’t use his first Budget to officially set 2030 as the target date for reaching 3 per cent.

He will instead use next year’s spending review to set out the timetable.

Chancellor John Healey as accused of ‘surrender’ after it emerged he had shelved plans to announce any defence budget increase

But White House insiders have not reacted well to the news – and said US President Donald Trump would ‘continue efforts’ to see Britain increase her defence spending.   

One official said: ‘I would expect the UK to receive special attention because it has so much potential.

‘We will therefore continue efforts to incentivise and enable the UK to step up in a major way.’

Asked about the US ‘reviewing’ its position on Britain’s sovereignty of the Falklands, they added:  ‘I can say that they [conversations] are candid and nothing is being ruled out as far as options for encouraging the sort of burden-sharing that we seek.’

It is not the first time the US has openly spoken of ‘reviewing’ the UK’s claim to the Falklands Islands.

In April, similar sentiments were shared in a memo exploring ways for the US to punish Nato countries for failing to support the Iran war by refusing or being reluctant to grant Washington access, basing and overflight (ABO) rights for the conflict.

The email included an option to consider reassessing US diplomatic support for longstanding European ‘imperial possessions’, such as the Falkland Islands, which lie close to Argentina. 

According to the State Department’s website, the islands are administered by the United Kingdom but are still claimed by Argentina, whose Libertarian President Javier Milei is a Trump ally.

Britain and Argentina fought in 1982 over the islands after Argentina made a failed bid to take them. Some 650 Argentine soldiers and 255 British troops died before Argentina surrendered.

The wrangle over Britain’s defence budget comes as the Kremlin warned this week it could strike British military targets inside and outside Ukraine if Kyiv continues to fire long-range, UK-made cruise missiles into Russia.

The warning was the strongest direct threat yet to Britain over its military backing for Ukraine.

This week, CIA director John Ratcliffe also made a surprise trip to Moscow to warn the Kremlin against launching an attack in Nato territory amid growing fears Russia is looking to escalate its war.

And during a trip to Brussels on Thursday, the Pentagon’s policy chief Elbridge Colby said the US needed to see ‘major efforts to step up’ on defence spending among European allies, including the UK.

Mr Burnham posed for the cameras alongside Ukrainian premier Volodymyr Zelensky this week during a trip to Kyiv, pledging that Nato countries would do ‘everything we can’.

But critics tore into Mr Healey and the PM, who are scrambling for cash after Mr Burnham made a series of unfunded commitments after entering Downing Street last month.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage told the Daily Mail: ‘Britain faces the most serious security threats in a generation, yet the Chancellor cannot even stick to the defence target that only weeks ago he was saying was essential.

‘John Healey spent years styling himself as a champion of our military, yet the moment he gets his hands on the Treasury keys he betrays them.

The Daily Mail’s Don’t Leave Britain Defenceless campaign has repeatedly highlighted shortages and weaknesses in the Armed Forces and has long been calling for an immediate rise in spending, increasing to at least 3 per cent by 2030 

‘The first duty of any government is the defence of the realm. Labour has failed that test yet again.’

The Tories’ shadow defence secretary, James Cartlidge, said: ‘With Russia ramping up its threats every day, the world has only got more dangerous since Mr Healey resigned two months ago.

‘It is extraordinary that he is backtracking on the very pledge which sealed the fate of the last PM and opened the door of No 10 to Andy Burnham.

‘Burnham needs to do what Starmer could not and make the difficult decisions to fund 3 per cent.

‘Russia doesn’t work to Treasury timetables, and we can’t wait for a spending review to keep Britain safe.’

Shadow Armed Forces Minister Mark Francois added: ‘When the CIA Director has just flown to Moscow, supposedly to warn them off attacking NATO, behaviour like this is strategic madness.’

Former head of the Army, General Lord Richard Dannatt, said: ‘It is outrageous. Shelving the 3 per cent target is akin to surrender.’

Labour peer Lord West, a former First Sea Lord, said: ‘I would hope that Healey, having been the Defence Secretary, is sticking by his guns.

‘It would be extraordinary and very weird if he didn’t meet the things he resigned over.

‘For him to very bravely stand and be resolute about defence and resign, only to then get the job of Chancellor and say ‘well actually it’s not that important,’ does seem a bit hypocritical.’

Former Tory Defence Secretary Sir Liam Fox said: ‘Even by the standards of this Labour government, this would be breathtaking hypocrisy.

‘And it’s clear under Labour that Britain is a country that will be more configured for welfare than warfare, even if that threatens our national security.

‘What message does it send to Putin if we’re unwilling to confront our own domestic spending problems, even if that puts our country at greater risk?’

Sir Gavin Williamson, another ex-Defence Secretary, added: ‘It’s absolutely shocking.

‘It’s all well and good for the PM to go off to Kyiv, offering additional support, but you have to back that up with the investment in terms of our defences.

‘Russia has said we’re a target and to have the naivety and the recklessness to actually then not do more to defend ourselves is a dereliction of duty.

‘It’s very disappointing if John’s going to sell out the Armed Forces as the price for him getting the job as Chancellor.’

Government insiders said Mr Healey’s first Budget would focus on filling a defence equipment funding gap of nearly £5billion left behind by Sir Keir, amounting to about £1.2billion a year.

But much bigger decisions on an uplift in defence spending will be delayed until a Treasury spending review next year, with one source claiming that was the ‘appropriate place to set that out‘.

Mr Healey resigned as Sir Keir’s Defence Secretary in June after the ex-PM’s Defence Investment Plan only projected spending to reach roughly 2.68 per cent of GDP by 2030.

The 2030 target Mr Healey has previously pushed for was part of a wider Nato commitment to hit 3.5 per cent of GDP on defence spending by 2035.

Most Nato members signed up to the target at a summit in The Hague last June under pressure from US President Donald Trump.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank has said raising spending to 3 per cent in 2030 would cost an extra £10billion a year in today’s terms.

Boosting spending further to 3.5 per cent of GDP would cost £25billion compared with existing levels.

The Daily Mail’s Don’t Leave Britain Defenceless campaign has repeatedly highlighted shortages and weaknesses in the Armed Forces and has long been calling for an immediate rise in spending, increasing to at least 3 per cent by 2030.

In an interview with Sky News yesterday, Mr Healey said fiscal discipline was the ‘first priority’ for any Chancellor.

A government spokesman added: ‘The first duty of government is to keep its citizens safe.

‘The prime minister and chancellor are committed to fully funding the Defence Investment Plan.

‘At the spending review we will set out a pathway to meet our Nato commitment of 3.5 per cent of GDP on defence by 2035 and will set a target date to hit 3 per cent on that path.’

OpenAI said on Friday that it ⁠plans to stop providing AI models to Cursor, the coding-tool company now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, marking a further escalation in the bitter rivalry between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk.

Musk and Altman have been at odds for years, a feud that culminated earlier this year in a trial over Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit ⁠against OpenAI. During the trial, Musk’s lawyer said that ​Musk ⁠and other witnesses had testified that Altman was a liar, while OpenAI argued that Musk had sought control of the company.

“We are making this choice because we cannot ⁠be confident that SpaceX will use our technology within our terms of service, based on our ​experience with ⁠Elon Musk’s companies violating contracts,” OpenAI said ‌in a blog post.

Musk responded early on Saturday in an X post, writing, “I couldn’t care less.”

He accused Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman of being “untrustworthy,” while repeating his assertion that they “stole ‌an open source nonprofit.”

Musk, the world’s richest person, had ‌sued OpenAI and Altman for “stealing a charity” by betraying the company’s original nonprofit mission for their own enrichment. A federal jury ruled against Musk earlier this year, finding that he had filed the case too late.

However, Michael Truell, a co-founder of ⁠Cursor and now an executive at SpaceX, said on X that the company was speaking with the OpenAI team to resolve this issue.

Hours after OpenAI’s announcement, Anthropic, which rivals both firms but has an ongoing partnership with SpaceX, said it planned to increase compute to support Claude models in Cursor, according to Tom Brown, one of the co-founders of the firm.

In its blog post, OpenAI said that X, formerly known as Twitter and now part of SpaceX, had breached the ‌terms of its contract with OpenAI after Musk acquired the platform.

“To work with a ​large partner like SpaceX, we typically rely on custom contracts to ensure compliance ‌with our terms of service and that the ⁠integration provides for safety at scale,” the AI company added.

The ChatGPT-maker said it proposed ⁠a shutoff date of November 12, 2026, adding that its agreement with Cursor gave it a limited time window to cancel ‌the contract following “a change of ​control.”

SpaceX announced a deal to buy Anysphere, the startup ‌behind Cursor, for $60 billion in an all-stock ​deal in June, and completed the acquisition earlier this month.