In a late-night blog post last Friday, OpenAI said it would wind down its partnership with Cursor, the startup behind one of the most popular AI coding tools on the market. The reason OpenAI gave for the decision is effectively that it can’t trust Elon Musk, whose company SpaceX recently acquired Cursor in a $60 billion deal.

In doing so, OpenAI walked away from one of its most important customers. Cursor has long paid OpenAI fees to offer the ChatGPT-maker’s models to developers using its AI coding editor. At the start of 2026, Cursor was one of OpenAI’s top five customers in terms of revenue, people familiar with the matter tell WIRED. By the spring of this year, OpenAI estimated Cursor would bring in more than $1 billion in annualized revenue for the ChatGPT maker, based on the partnership’s performance at that time, the people said.

The figures, which have not been previously reported, indicate the financial loss OpenAI is willing to take on to avoid doing business with Musk. OpenAI declined to comment. Representatives for SpaceX and Cursor did not immediately respond to WIRED’s request for comment.

“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,” said OpenAI in the blog post.

As OpenAI prepares to go public next year, it’s trying to show investors a more stable business—ideally one that doesn’t rely so heavily on the goodwill of Musk. OpenAI reportedly now generates more than $40 billion in annualized revenue, drawing on several different lines of business, including subscriptions, ads in ChatGPT, and selling access to its AI coding tool, Codex.

Losing a major customer like Cursor may not hurt OpenAI financially as much as it once would have, but it was certainly a difficult decision. The company acknowledged in its blog post that ending the partnership may damage its standing with developers—a community it has spent years carefully working to win over—by cutting off a major channel they use to access OpenAI’s models.

Michael Truell, Cursor’s founder and CEO, who is now leading teams at SpaceX, responded publicly to OpenAI’s announcement hours later on Friday in a post on X, claiming that the ChatGPT-maker’s models only “serve about 5% of Cursor user traffic.” The comment seemed designed to imply that OpenAI’s models weren’t very popular with developers using Cursor, and wouldn’t meaningfully affect its business.

OpenAI’s head of core products, Thibault Sottiaux, was quick to point out that token usage is “not a proxy for revenue nor value created,” and asked Truell to “share the math” behind the 5 percent number.

WIRED previously reported that Cursor leaders hoped to remain a platform for third-party AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic, even after the SpaceX acquisition. Some AI insiders considered that wishful thinking, assuming that Cursor and OpenAI’s breakup has long been a foregone conclusion. As OpenAI builds Codex into a large AI coding business, it increasingly finds itself competing with Cursor for customers. Nevertheless, the companies have operated relatively peacefully, as partners and competitors, for well over a year.

Evidently, that arrangement was no longer possible with Musk in control of Cursor. OpenAI may have determined that its Cursor partnership was not worth the risk that SpaceX might distill its best AI models. The company noted in its blog post that, earlier this year, Musk seemingly said that xAI—now a part of SpaceX—used OpenAI’s models to train its own. The apparent admission came during Musk’s deposition in his lawsuit against OpenAI, in which he claimed that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman had stolen a charity they created together roughly a decade ago. A federal jury dismissed the suit earlier this year.

This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp.

In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles. However, as robot arms swivel, rotate, and extend, the electrical cables, fiber optics, and pneumatic hoses supplying them endure severe mechanical stress. Torsional twist, rapid acceleration, and repeated contact with machine structures often lead to premature conductor fatigue, insulation breakdown, and costly unplanned production halts.

To overcome these multi-axis motion challenges, the Tsubaki KabelSchlepp Robotrax System provides a specialized three-dimensional cable carrier engineered specifically for complex robotic motion.

Managing High Tensile Forces With Central Steel Technology

Conventional cable carriers often transfer operational movement stress directly onto internal electrical lines and hoses. The Robotrax system changes this dynamic through a central steel cable that runs through the core of every chain link.

The Robotrax system’s central steel cable absorbs the primary tensile loads and preserves conductor integrity, dramatically extending cable service life.

When robot arms undergo rapid directional shifts and accelerations up to 10 g, this internal steel cable absorbs the primary tensile loads. By isolating electrical and fluid lines from pulling forces, the design preserves conductor integrity and dramatically extends cable service life. Mechanics can easily calibrate and adjust system tension using an integrated clamping piece, ensuring consistent mechanical support throughout long operational cycles.

Spherical Link Design and Modular Cable Routing

The foundation of the Robotrax system lies in its open, single-piece plastic links featuring spherical snap-on connections on both sides. This geometry allows the carrier to flex smoothly across three axes, providing radial rotation of up to ±450 degrees per meter depending on the model size.

To optimize internal organization, carrier links contain up to three distinct chambers. This physical separation prevents signal interference and mechanical abrasion between heavy power lines, sensitive data channels, and fluid hoses. For standard models (R040 through R100), technicians can press cables directly into the carrier without tools, drastically reducing installation and maintenance time. Larger configurations, such as the R140X, incorporate swiveling crossbars with snap locks alongside vertical and horizontal dividers for customized interior partitioning.

Active Retraction and Impact Protection

Large robot work envelopes and high-speed motion trajectories can cause loose cable carrier loops to swing and strike the robot body. To eliminate these destructive collisions, Tsubaki KabelSchlepp integrates the Pull Back Unit (PBU).

The PBU serves as an active retraction mechanism that maintains optimal tension on the cable carrier throughout the entire motion cycle. By preventing excess slack and eliminating interfering contours, the PBU minimizes collision risks across complex movement paths. The unit requires zero maintenance on its retraction element and offers standard mounting configurations for leading industrial robot platforms, including KUKA, ABB, and FANUC.

Tsubaki KabelSchlepp’s Pull Back Unit maintains optimal tension on the cable carrier and minimizes collision risks across complex movement paths.

Additionally, external protectors can be retrofitted onto individual chain links. These durable impact shields limit the minimum bending radius to prevent over-flexing while shielding the chain body from severe external abrasion. If wear occurs, technicians simply replace the modular protector rather than the entire cable carrier assembly.

Built for Demanding Industrial Environments

From automotive welding cells to high-speed machining centers, Robotrax systems adapt to severe working conditions through tailored protective accessories:

• Heat Shields: Aluminum-coated textile fiber covers protect against radiated heat, hot weld spatter, and flying sparks.
• Protective Covers: Coated polyester sleeves shield sensitive lines against aggressive cutting fluids, hydraulic oils, paint overspray, and abrasive dust.
• LineFix Strain Relief: Multi-layer clamping devices anchor cables securely at both ends to prevent axial displacement during intense motion.

By combining central load absorption, multi-axis flexibility, and active retraction control, the Robotrax system offers plant engineers and system integrators a reliable path toward maximizing robot uptime and reducing total operational costs.

Luka Kids has introduced the Luka Kids Drawing Projector, an AI-powered device designed to encourage creativity among children. It helps kids translate their thoughts into drawings and keeps them engaged in the creative process. This new product adds to Luka Kids’ existing lineup of AI-driven products. The company is also unveiling its new versions of the Luka Kids Reading Robot and Luka AI Cube at IFA 2026.

The Luka Kids Drawing Projector uses AI to turn children’s spoken ideas into simple outlines on paper. Children can describe a story, character, or concept and watch the projector create a starting point. They can then trace the outline, draw new details, color it, and add their own ideas. The projector will also offer 384 unfinished templates at launch for children who want ready-made starting points. These templates will include characters and stories from Luka Kids’ original Inko creative universe. AI provides the initial idea, but children decide how the final artwork looks.

How the Luka Kids Drawing Projector Uses AI for Storytelling

Children have the opportunity to influence the stories through the Luka Kids Drawing Projector and their drawings. They may make drawings of various characters, objects, or situations as the story unfolds. The AI can understand what the child has drawn and modify the story accordingly. Kids can come up with new ideas and see how they are incorporated into the ongoing story.

Luka Kids Reading Robot is a screenless device that helps children read picture books using artificial intelligence. Over 10 million devices have already been sold worldwide. As part of the IFA 2026 launch, Luka Kids has integrated language-learning models to enhance interactivity in the reading process. Now, the robot can recognize and read picture books that it has never seen before. The latest version has been created by Luka Kids utilizing information collected from over 200,000 textbooks and illustrated books.

The Luka AI Cube helps kids learn more about the world around them. The tool uses visual sensing and multimodal artificial intelligence to detect objects and understand their surroundings. Kids can pose questions about science, history, nature, and other things around us and receive answers instantly. AI characters developed by Luka Kids encourage questions. The device connects real-life experiences with digital knowledge to support learning through discovery.

Luka Kids Drawing Projector and Other AI Devices: Availability

Luka Kids will display its three AI devices at IFA Next, Hall 25, Stand 154 in Berlin. The new Luka Kids Drawing Projector will be available for sale soon, and the enhanced version of the Luka Kids Reading Robot will go on sale from September 3, 2026. Currently, the company sells its products in the USA, Germany, South Korea, Singapore, and China. has been selling its products in the USA, Germany, South Korea, Singapore, and China.

Apple TV is betting on the Waffle House Index for a sci-fi disaster flick that takes the restaurant’s reputation for staying open to its logical extreme.

“Waffle House Index” follows a Waffle House waitress as a series of mounting disasters unfold during her night shift. First, a man with a gun, then a flood, followed by killer crocodiles, nuclear explosions, and yes: even aliens.

Inde Navarrette, known for her role as Nikki Freeman in the horror film “Obsession,” is set to star in “Waffle House Index.” And, for the first time, she’ll also serve as executive producer.

The film was part of the 2025 Black List, a survey of the most liked screenplays that have yet to be produced. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the deal for the film was seven figures.

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For those not in the know, the Waffle House Index is an informal metric used to determine the severity of an event, typically a storm. The index has three levels: green, yellow, and red.

A green-level event means that the Waffle House is fully operational with power, and the full menu is available. A yellow-level event means power is either unavailable or supplied by a generator, or food supplies are running low, but a limited menu is still available.

A red-level event means the restaurant has sustained severe or critical damage and is no longer open. We should hope to think that in the event of an alien invasion or a nuclear explosion, your local Waffle House would have the sensibility to close.

Game and yap from across Epic’s ecosystem.

The acquisition is the latest attempt by Nvidia to pull ahead in the global AI race.

Nvidia has agreed to acquire open-source AI and machine learning platform Hugging Face for $12.9bn, according to announcement released today (3 September).

In a statement, Nvidia said that as part of the acquisition, the organisation will scale Hugging Face’s platform, strengthen its infrastructure and expand AI access for developers and institutions across the world.

The company also explained that Hugging Face will continue to serve as an open platform for the AI ecosystem, where developers can select their models, frameworks, cloud, inference service providers and computing platforms. Additionally, users will still be able to build or deploy via Hugging Face without Nvidia compute. 

The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027, pending regulatory approval, according to a number of outlets.

Rumours of a Hugging Face acquisition first surfaced last week, after Business Insider reported that the platform was exploring a sale.

Commenting on the announcement, Nvidia’s president and CEO Jensen Huang said: “Recently, I co-authored an open letter on the importance of open weights to the AI economy. Joined by leaders from across the industry, we made a simple point: open weights broaden access to AI and help ensure that AI leadership is distributed across companies, institutions and communities.

“Open models let start-ups, businesses, universities and public institutions build on advanced capabilities without training every model from scratch. They enable organisations to match the right model to the right job. 

“That is how AI can advance safely, strengthen cybersecurity and sovereignty, accelerate innovation, and reach factories, hospitals, farms, classrooms and main street businesses around the world.”

Hugging Face made headlines in July after AI models developed by OpenAI were able to breach containment during testing and hack into the platform and a connected third-party business.

The incident sparked serious concerns in the tech industry around AI’s rapidly advancing ability to bypass boundaries and, effectively, go ‘rogue’.

Shortly afterwards, Nvidia formed an alliance with other companies in the technology space in the wake of the Hugging Face breach. The alliance was created in order to develop and share tools designed for enhanced AI safety and cybersecurity.

‘Corporate scouting ground’

Commenting on today’s announcement, Forrester principal analyst Naveen Chhabra said Nvidia is “clearly on the path to vertical integration”, which he said is good for Nvidia’s business, “but not necessarily for the market overall”.

“Nvidia gains visibility into customer’s preferences and the AI models they use. They can see which models are trending, what datasets customer are downloading, and the architectures that are gaining traction weeks before they hit mainstream tech news,” said Chhabra. “It turns Hugging Face into a corporate scouting ground and an unparalleled market intelligence machine.

“Nvidia also gets data-driven foresight into what next-generation chip architectures they need to build based on developer habits.

“They are securing the software layer because hardware-only companies get commoditised over time.”

The acquisition is Nvidia’s latest major financial investment in AI. 

Earlier in the week, Nvidia announced plans to invest $3.5bn into MediaTek, a Taiwanese semiconductor company. The investment is part of a partnership designed to develop the next generation of AI computing platforms.

In late July, it was reported that Nvidia would be joining forces with Safe Superintelligence in a long-term strategic partnership to help the AI company in its growth plans. It was reported that the collaboration involves the investing of $5bn into the company. 

And in August, the Wall Street Journal reported that Nvidia is planning to use its $6bn deal with AI start-up Poolside to build open-weight AI models to rival those made by China’s DeepSeek and Moonshot. 

With additional reporting by Colin Ryan

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I first discovered New Wave Toys and this entire collecting industry in October 2020, which is when I bought my first cabinet: “Street Fighter II: Champion Edition.” The company began with “Centipede” in 2018, which was followed by “Tempest,” “Street Fighter II,” “Dragon’s Lair,” “Asteroids,” “1942 & 1943,” “Q-Bert,” “Missile Command,” “Food Fight,” “Space Ace,” “Ghosts ‘n Goblins & Ghouls ‘n Ghosts,” “Berserk & Frenzy,” “Golden Tee,” and a working “Zoltar” machine that spits out actual fortune tickets.

New Wave Toys also makes USB hubs in the form of cigarette machines, (which also come in the form of an Art-o-Matic if you’re averse to the former.) There’s also a Coke machine, which can keep a tiny can cool, two versions of coin machines, small boom boxes, and more. It also has a ton of products in development, including “Crystal Castles,” a “Skee-Ball” machine, and a “Black Hole” pinball machine, which isn’t playable, but features an “attract mode” that simulates gameplay.

Jonathan H. Kantor

One of the things I like best about New Wave Toys’ products is the attention to detail put into everything they make. You can often buy different versions of the same cabinet, including one with cigarette burns, gum stickers, and stains from use, adding a bit of authenticity to your home mini arcade. 

The most recent release, as of writing, is “Golden Tee,” (pictured above, center) which comes with an optional mini DMD (dot matrix display) topper, just like it’d have in an real arcade setting. There are additional arcade sticks and controllers you can buy if you want to play your games on a TV, so there are tons of great options.

Labor Day monitor sales at B&H and Amazon include discounts on the 2026 Apple Studio Display, with prices falling to as low as $1,499.

The Labor Day deals at Amazon and B&H deliver the lowest prices of the season on the Apple Studio Display that was released in March 2026.

Grab Apple Studio Display deals

While the 2026 updates were minor, they do include a few upgrades that will be enticing to new users of the monitor. One upgrade is the port selection, which now includes two Thunderbolt 5 ports, one of which is used for upstream connectivity. It also offers 96 watts of charging power.

The webcam has been updated as well to a Center Stage cam with Desk View support.

Apple Studio Display sale

• Apple Studio Display: Standard Glass, Tilt-Adjustable Stand: $1,499 ($100 off) at B&H
• Apple Studio Display: Standard Glass, Tilt- and Height-Adjustable Stand: $1,926.35 ($74 off) at Amazon
• Apple Studio Display: Nano-Texture Glass, Tilt-Adjustable Stand: $1,849 ($50 off) with coupon

For deals on additional monitor options, including the Apple Studio Display XDR, be sure to visit our Monitor Price Guide.

Vention is expanding its portable power lineup with the launch of the H Series and the U.S. and E.U. debut of the Dash Series at IFA 2026. Both lineups aim to offer more than just electricity in portable charging, with improved design, safety, and usability. The H Series lineup represents a sleek and stylish take on portable batteries, while the Dash Series offers advanced charging controls.

Vention H Series Combines Slim Design With Portable Power

The Vention H Series is a portable battery with a slim design and functionality. With a thickness of 6.9mm, it has a capacity of 5,000 mAh. The contoured aluminum alloy build gives it a sleek, stylish design. Users can choose between the three colors: Burgundy Dusk, Cloud White, and Midnight Black.

Vention calls this design approach “Half Sky, Half Earth,” inspired by the way two colors meet at the horizon. The concept also represents the company’s effort to make portable power more inclusive and user-focused. The H Series uses a solid-liquid hybrid battery to deliver high energy density in a thin form factor. For safety, it passed a 4mm tungsten steel puncture test without sparking, smoking, or exploding and survived a 135°C hot-box test for 60 minutes without combustion. Users can also check battery temperature, charging status, capacity, and system health through the companion app.

Dash Series Brings Smarter and More Visible Charging

The Vention Dash Series is a lineup of six chargers designed to make charging information easier to understand. Its flagship model, the Dash Pro, is a 140W 4-port GaN 5.0 charger with a smart display. Its EnergyCore system uses five animated emojis to show the charging status at a glance. The indicators have different states, including idle, trickle charge, fast charge, maximum charge, and warnings.

Users will get additional information via the companion app, which provides details on power, current, temperature, and device status. EnergyCore detects any connected device and supplies the appropriate amount of power to it. The charger is compatible with various fast-charging technologies, including PD 3.1, QC, PPS, UFCS, and others. It also supports 100V–240V input, a foldable plug, and a reinforced plug design for travel. The Dash Pro is available in Titanium Gray and Titanium Silver and carries a Red Dot Award-winning design.

Vention Expands Its Portable Power Portfolio at IFA 2026

After years of producing portable battery products for other brands, the company is now bringing its own approach to portable power under the Vention name. The company aims to make charging products more user-friendly, intuitive, and suited to everyday lifestyles, rather than focusing solely on technical specifications. The company is also using IFA 2026 to showcase more new products, including the 2-in-1 Retractable Charging Cable, 7-in-2 USB-C Plug-in Docking Station, and SpotTag Pop Dual-Mode Smart Bluetooth Tracker. These products support Vention’s wider approach of bringing together technology, usability, and design in its latest lineup.