Cursor Launches Origin as GitHub Outage Exposes AI Coding Race Vulnerability

Cursor rolled out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning—just hours before GitHub suffered a six-hour, 42-minute global outage that crippled pull requests, issues, and the API. The timing was almost too perfect: GitHub's error rates hit 20% across core functions and 50% on archive downloads, while enterprise single sign-on (SAML, OIDC, SCIM) went dark entirely. Copilot went down with it. As Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch quipped...