AI
OpenAI launches free frontier model access for up to 100,000 academic researchers
OpenAI is opening free access to its frontier models — including the GPT-5.6 family — to scientists, mathematicians, and engineers through a new program called ChatGPT for Academic Researchers. The initiative starts with 10,000 participants and is set to scale to 100,000 by the end of 2027. Each workspace includes business-grade privacy protections, and researcher data is not used for model training by default. OpenAI framed the move as a deliberate effort to prevent the benefits of frontier AI from concentrating among a handful of well-resourced labs, arguing that researchers know their fields best and should have direct access to powerful tools.
Cursor brings its AI coding agent to iPad with new PR review features
Cursor has released a native iPad app, extending the AI coding environment it launched on iPhone to a larger screen better suited for working with agents. Both the iPhone and iPad versions received new features simultaneously: an inbox for staying organized and a full pull-request review experience covering comments, checks, and approvals. The additions position Cursor as a mobile-first coding tool capable of handling end-to-end development workflows away from the desktop.
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