Build and share live apps inside Cursor
Greetings, model whisperers, getting an AI-built prototype into your team’s hands just got simpler: Cursor now handles hosting, databases, and sign-in alongside the code. This edition focuses on changes that help you ship apps, budget video generation, and delegate ongoing work.
In today’s edition
- Cursor now builds and publishes live apps.
- Google cuts Gemini video generation API prices.
- Perplexity launches persistent agents for ongoing work.
Cursor takes your app from prompt to live link
Cursor can now build and publish a live web app without a separate hosting setup. You can share the result with teammates rather than leave it running only on your computer.
- The agent provisions Postgres when needed and sets up authentication through Cursor sign-in.
- Before publishing, Cursor checks for common security issues such as exposed credentials. Checks must pass, and you must explicitly publish.
- It’s available on all paid plans with cloud agents enabled. Team sharing supports specific people and groups; individual plans can also publish publicly.
What it means Start with an internal tool you need to share: update Cursor, launch a cloud agent, and explicitly ask it to build an app.
Source: cursor.com
Google cuts video API prices by 30%
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is available in AI Studio and the Gemini API, with longer clips and conversational editing. For video apps and content workflows, that changes both the generation budget and how much fits in one clip.
- Google’s new API price is $0.07 per second for 720p video, 30% below the previous generation.
- Generation and editing now support clips up to 15 seconds, up from 10.
- You can change backgrounds, subjects, or lighting turn by turn without starting over.
What it means Try a 15-second scene in AI Studio that you previously had to split into shorter clips, then use the new rate to update your production budget.
Source: GoogleAI
Perplexity gives ongoing jobs to persistent Teammates
Perplexity’s new Teammates stick around between tasks instead of disappearing when a session ends. They can watch ongoing work, act when something changes, and message coworkers in Slack.
- Each teammate starts with your existing Computer Projects, skills, memory, and tools rather than a blank conversation.
- Teammates run in isolated environments under existing tool and Project permissions. You can review their work, redirect them, or take over the desktop.
- The research preview is available on the web for Max subscribers, whose plan costs $200 per month.
What it means Try it if you already use Computer for recurring research or bug triage. Give one teammate a single ongoing responsibility and review its work.
Source: perplexity_ai
Quick hits
- METR’s Anthropic assessment estimates roughly twice the earlier capability-growth pace on well-specified tasks, with substantial uncertainty and much of its strongest evidence redacted.
- OpenAI released GPT-6 Cyber to select Daybreak Red customers, giving approved security teams access to the model behind its previously announced Linux research.
- Democratic lawmakers plan AI bills covering independent model testing, liability, and data-center electricity costs, Reuters reports; these are legislative plans, not enacted rules.
- Thinking Machines launched Inkling 2 Small for inference and fine-tuning on Tinker, with image input; an Apache 2.0 weight release is planned after external safety testing.
- Mistral Studio’s managed agents and apps entered public preview, while workflows reached general availability on Mistral Cloud; private-cloud and on-premises versions are promised for late November.