OpenAI Exits SpaceX-Owned Cursor, Pentagon Anthropic Blacklist Overruled, and Music Giants Sue AI Lab

OpenAI Exits SpaceX-Owned Cursor, Pentagon Anthropic Blacklist Overruled, and Music Giants Sue AI Lab This edition covers OpenAI pulling its models from coding editor Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX, a federal judge overturning the Pentagon's supply chain blacklist of Anthropic, and other major AI product launches and legal developments. OpenAI plans to remove its models from coding editor Cursor by November 12, citing Elon Musk's history of violating agreements after SpaceX acquired the platform. A federal judge ruled that the Pentagon broke the law and violated the First and Fifth Amendments by blacklisting Anthropic as a supply chain risk. Sony Music and Warner Music filed an intellectual property infringement lawsuit against Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei. Industry releases include Tencent's Hy4 preview model, agentic shopping updates for xAI's Grok Bot, and Fal's fast video streaming model. OpenAI Cuts Ties with Cursor Following SpaceX Acquisition OpenAI announced it will end access to its models on the Cursor coding platform by November 12 after Cursor was purchased by SpaceX. OpenAI invoked cancellation terms triggered by the sale, pointing to Elon Musk's past contract disputes, including the termination of a $2 million Twitter data contract and xAI's use of OpenAI outputs. While Musk stated he did not care and Cursor CEO Michael Truell noted that OpenAI accounts for roughly 5% of Cursor's traffic, Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown reaffirmed ongoing support for the platform. Court Overturns Pentagon Blacklist Against Anthropic Federal Judge Rita Lin ruled that the Department of Defense acted unlawfully when it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk in June, concluding the blacklist was retaliation against the company's opposition to military AI rather than a genuine security threat. The designation made Anthropic the first domestic company placed on the adversary list, temporarily taking its Mythos and Fable models offline. The court determined the punitive move violated the First and Fifth Amendments, establishing a legal check against similar national security bans, even as an appeal proceeds. Legal Actions and Backlash Facing Anthropic Anthropic faces new legal pressure from Sony Music and Warner Music, which filed suit against the company and CEO Dario Amodei alleging massive intellectual property theft. Concurrently, Anthropic met user criticism regarding changes to Claude Code limits after marketing a 17% cut in weekly usage allowances as an enhancement. AI Model Releases and Productivity Guides The edition highlighted several new product releases and workflows: Tencent unveiled its Hy4 preview coding model, xAI launched agentic shopping using single-use virtual cards for Grok Bot, and Fal demonstrated fast video generation with Minimax H3 Max. Practical guides covered deploying iOS apps from Xcode using Codex and App Store Connect, as well as staff and reader workflows using Claude for automated draft planning, web analytics, and local file format conversion.

The Rundown AI简报：OpenAI退出Cursor、五角大楼封杀Anthropic被判违法及多项行业动态 本期简报重点涵盖OpenAI在Cursor被SpaceX收购后决定撤出模型支持、联邦法院裁定五角大楼将Anthropic列入黑名单违法，以及多项AI工具发布与法律纠纷快讯。 因SpaceX收购Cursor，OpenAI宣布将于11月12日从该编程平台撤出其模型，理由是马斯克过往存在违约记录。 联邦法官裁定五角大楼将Anthropic列为“供应链风险”黑名单的行为违法，侵犯了第一和第五修正案权利。 腾讯、xAI、Fal发布多项新模型与功能，同时索尼与华纳音乐就侵权问题对Anthropic提起诉讼。 OpenAI因SpaceX收购而终止对Cursor的模型支持 在编程平台Cursor于上月被SpaceX收购后，OpenAI宣布将在11月12日前从该平台撤出旗下模型。OpenAI表示收购触发了合同终止权，并列举了马斯克收购Twitter后取消每年200万美元协议以及xAI使用其数据训练等过往违约记录作为依据。马斯克对此回应称“完全不在乎”，Cursor首席执行官Michael Truell则寻求解决方案，并透露OpenAI仅占其总体AI流量的约5%。与此同时，Anthropic联合创始人Tom Brown重申了对Cursor的支持。 联邦法官裁定五角大楼封杀Anthropic违法 联邦法官Rita Lin裁定，美国国防部将Anthropic列为“供应链风险”黑名单违反了宪法第一和第五修正案，指出国家安全不能成为惩罚批评者的借口。此前国防部因Anthropic反对军用AI而发布禁令，导致其Mythos和Fable模型下线近一个月，Anthropic也成为首个遭受该制裁的美国本土企业。目前该标签仍待上诉法院审理，国防部表示对Claude的停用过渡将于9月30日完成。 行业快讯与法律诉讼 在技术与产品动态方面，腾讯推出了具备100万上下文窗口的开源模型Hy4预览版；xAI为Grok Bot引入可共享Bot及通过Link集成进行单次卡消费的代理购物功能；Fal展示了Minimax H3 Max视频生成能力。此外，Anthropic调整Claude Code周限额引发争议，并遭到索尼音乐与华纳音乐起诉，被指控实施了大规模的知识产权侵权。

[Read Online]({{live_url}}) ^| [Sign Up](https://www.therundown.ai/subscribe?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0928) ^| [Advertise](https://therundownai.typeform.com/to/kraZ1TSO?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0928) **Good morning, {{ first\_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to our 9,208 new readers.** Sam Altman and Elon Musk have fought over companies, lawsuits, talent, and more. Now the feud is landing somewhere developers may actually feel it… One of the most popular AI coding editors on the market. OpenAI's models will exit the newly SpaceX-owned Cursor by mid-November, with Musk's record on past agreements as the dealbreaker. Elon’s response? He “couldn’t care less.” **In today’s AI rundown:** OpenAI cuts out Cursor after SpaceX acquisition The Rundown Roundtable: Our AI use cases Submit your iOS app to the App Store with Codex Court rejects Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist **LATEST DEVELOPMENTS** Image source: Images 2.0 / The Rundown **The Rundown:** OpenAI just [announced](https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0928) that it will be removing its models from coding platform Cursor by Nov.12, coming after the company was acquired by SpaceX last month — citing Elon Musk’s history of violating contracts as the reason for the decision. **The details:** OAI said it stretched the wind-down as far as its contract allows via cancellation rights that opened once Cursor was sold, calling the decision “incredibly tough.” OAI's evidence includes the $2M-a-year tweet deal Musk killed after buying Twitter, plus xAI training on its outputs, which Musk called “partly” true. Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown reaffirmed support for Cursor, with many calling out the company’s similar move against Windsurf over its potential OAI acquisition. Musk [posted](https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2093572368434127259?s=20&utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0928) “I couldn't care less,” while Cursor CEO Michael Truell pushed for a fix, putting OAI's slice of its AI traffic at a seemingly light 5% of overall usage. **Why it matters:** Cursor has typically been a neutral coding editor carrying all frontier options for developers to choose from. Now, it finds itself in the middle of the lunchroom fight between Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Though with xAI’s newfound Grok surge and Cursor’s internal model progress, competition might also play a bigger role than ever. **The Rundown:** Blotato automates your DMs using Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, or any AI Agent, helping you turn engagement into actionable leads. This case study shows you how to convert attention into sales by engaging viewers instantly with lead magnets, special offers, and guides. **In this case study, you’ll learn:** How one DM automation led to $120K ARR How to easily set up DM automations with Claude or ChatGPT Best practices for turning attention into leads **The Rundown:** The Rundown Roundtable is a weekly feature where we poll members of The Rundown staff about how we use AI in our work and daily lives. **Zach, Editor-in-chief:** It’s one of my favorite times of the year… Fantasy football draft season! But I was feeling particularly behind on my research this year, and my first draft that snuck up on me was a keeper league that complicates the structure and player pool. I used Claude to help build a war room plan for the draft, dropping in our league settings, keepers, and a brain dump of my ideal strategies and gut reads. After a few clarifying questions, Claude went out to research and came back a few minutes later with a generated live artifact based on its scan. The strategy factored in my exact pick slots and expected available players, potential targets built around my keepers, and (admittedly) sharp rationales for some options I hadn’t considered. Once in the draft, I updated my picks as they went, and Claude then modified the page, recalibrating ideal options based on where my team was trending. Highly recommend as a co-manager! **Adrian, Developer:** A while ago, my dad told me he wanted to use AI to analyze matches for the World Cup. He had never coded before, and his AI experience was pretty much limited to occasionally asking Gemini a question. I installed Claude Code for him and gave him a few prompting tips. He ended up building a full football analytics site himself and putting it on Vercel so he could show it off to his friends. Getting started with AI is much easier than people assume; sometimes you just need a project you actually want to make. Now that the Premier League season has kicked off, he's already reworking the site for that. **The Rundown:** In this guide, you will learn how to take a mobile app from Xcode to the App Store with ChatGPT Work and App Store Connect. You will prepare the listing, upload the build, set a price, and submit it without hunting through every screen. **Step-by-step:** Start with a working app. Follow [Part 1](https://app.therundown.ai/guides/build-test-publish-ios-app-without-leaving-codex?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0928) to build it. Tell Codex: “Build this app and send it to App Store Connect.” It will build, archive, and distribute it from Xcode Open [App Store Connect](https://appstoreconnect.apple.com/?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0928) in Codex's browser and sign in. 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Optimizely's upcoming webinar explores how Corinthia Hotels built a 7-agent AI system, achieving a 100% brand approval rate, 10x productivity, and 150+ hours saved — all with zero PII ever entering the AI layer. **The Oct. 7th session will cover:** How Corinthia personalizes across 5 personas and 14 lifecycle stages, mapping 76 behavioral signals to 6,384 content variants Live demos of autonomous personalization and creating dynamic 1-1 experiences How to maintain brand control without humans in the quality control loop [Register for Oct. 7 at 10 AM ET](https://www.optimizely.com/field-notes/events/ai-personalization-webinar-corinthia-hotels/?utm_source=rundownai&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=global_pers_rundownai-newsletter-1_q326_tofu_pt_traffic&utm_content=pers-ai-webinar) to join live or receive the recording. Image source: Court Listener **The Rundown:** A federal judge [ruled](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379655/250/anthropic-pbc-v-us-department-of-war/?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0928) that the Pentagon broke the law when it blacklisted Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” deciding that it was payback for the lab's pushback on military AI rather than a response to a real security threat. The Dept. of War issued the label in June, forcing its frontier Mythos and Fable models offline for nearly a month while the two sides publicly sparred. The move made Anthropic the first U.S. firm ever hit with a designation typically reserved for foreign adversaries, with all govt. agencies ordered to drop its models. Judge Rita Lin held that the blacklist violated the First and Fifth Amendments, saying national security isn’t a “blank check” to punish critics. The label still technically survives while a second case sits in appeals court, and the Pentagon has said its “wind down” of Claude usage will finish by Sept. 30. **Why it matters:** Anthropic scores the ruling confirming what many in the industry felt (including [ourselves](https://www.therundown.ai/articles/inside-the-deadlock-keeping-mythos-offline?utm_source=therundownai.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=rundown-0928)) in June — that the label was more retaliatory than safety-related. While Anthropic might no longer have the Pentagon as a customer regardless, future attempts to block models may now come with a legal precedent for pushback. **QUICK HITS** ▸ **Zan built a local Publisher-to-PDF converter** Today’s workflow comes from reader **Zan**: Microsoft is retiring Publisher on Oct. 1, 2026. I have many .PUB files that I need to convert to PDFs before then, but I did not want to use online converters. I wanted a solution that would run locally on my computer. 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