The Daily Brief

OpenAI 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.” Its evidence includes the $2M-a-year deal Musk killed after buying Twitter, plus xAI training on OpenAI’s 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 OpenAI acquisition.
• Musk posted “I couldn’t care less,” while Cursor CEO Michael Truell pushed for a fix, putting OpenAI’s slice of Cursor’s overall usage at just 5%.

Why it matters: Cursor has typically been a neutral coding editor carrying all frontier models for developers to choose from. Now it finds itself in the middle of the Altman-Musk feud — though with xAI’s Grok surge and Cursor’s own model progress, competition might play a bigger role than the politics.

Icelanders voted against resuming EU membership talks, with “no” voters largely concerned that joining would threaten the country’s control of its lucrative fishing industry — a setback for the EU’s push to gain a stronger Arctic foothold. Iceland remains the only NATO member without its own military.

Separately, President Trump called for NBC’s Kristen Welker to be reported to the FCC after she said his endorsement record has “mixed results.” The FCC is legally barred from punishing her, but per CNN’s Brian Stelter, the directive could be used as pretext to target NBC, as happened with ABC after Trump’s criticism of Jimmy Kimmel.