Start from scratch, without a repo

PreviewAug 27, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Cloud Agents no longer require a connected GitHub or other third-party SCM provider to get started. Prompt from the get-go, then save your work to a Cursor Origin repo. Get started Select **Start from scratch** in the repo picker, then prompt the agent. In the background, Cursor creates an Origin repo for you.

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CursorSep 2, 2026

Self-hosted machines

Cursor supports **self-hosted machines**, which let you keep tool execution entirely in your own network. Your codebase, build outputs, and secrets all stay on internal machines running in your infrastructure, while the agent handles tool calls locally.

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CursorAug 19, 2026

Cloud Agents and Cursor Harness Improvements

We're continuing to improve cloud agents and the Cursor harness so always-on agents can operate as a system, building and shipping software on their own without the need for intervention at each loop.

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CursorAug 17, 2026

Origin Code Hosting

Cursor can now host your code. Origin begins rolling out today in early beta on all paid plans. We're starting with the essentials, designed for agent scale: repos, pull requests, code browsing, and GitHub sync. Agent-native features ship soon. Origin Repos The new **Codebase** tab is home for Origin repos. Click **+New** to create a new repo and name it.

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CursorSep 10, 2026

Cursor Projects

Today we're launching Projects in Cursor. Projects lets you take on larger bodies of work, such as a feature, a migration, or a full app. It maintains context over months of work, delegates tasks to thousands of subagents, and performs recurring work without being prompted. Access Projects from the left-hand nav.

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CursorAug 13, 2026

Cloud Agents Start 3x Faster with Builds

Agents do their best work when they start in a ready environment: repos cloned, dependencies installed, and your install script already run. This release introduces **builds**: ready-to-use copies of your development environment that Cursor prepares in the background. Agents boot into a ready environment instead of setting up from scratch each session.

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CursorAug 3, 2026

Google Workspace Plugins

Cursor can now read, write, and act across your Google Workspace. New plugins give coding agents direct access to Gmail, Google Drive, and Calendar, so you can pull context, draft and update files, and manage your inbox and calendar without leaving Cursor.

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CursorSep 23, 2026

Rollouts and Security Review

Today we're launching two Cursor bots for the last mile of shipping code. Rollouts watches every change as it deploys and reports its health per environment. Security Review reports exploitable bugs on every pull request. Both are available today on Teams and Enterprise plans.

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CursorJul 29, 2026

Cursor, now on iPad

Cursor for iPad is now available on all paid plans. New to both iPhone and iPad: an inbox to stay organized, and a review experience that covers the full PR. Create, review, and merge from anywhere. Built for the bigger screen The iPad layout is rebuilt around the extra space. Sidebar chats stay pinned so you can watch several agents run at once.

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Google Cloud BigQueryAug 27, 2026

You can now train models using XGBoost version 2.1 by using the XGBOOST_VERSION option

You can now train models using XGBoost version 2.1 by using the XGBOOST_VERSION option. BigQuery uses the XGBoost 3.1.0 library to load and make predictions on XGBoost models. This feature is generally available .

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Snowflake Cortex CodeAug 27, 2026

CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code (General availability)

CoCo in the Snowflake Extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available. CoCo runs in a side panel next to the extension's existing SQL and Snowpark Python workflows, so you can work locally while you stay connected to your Snowflake account.

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Databricks LakeflowAug 27, 2026

Lakeflow Designer August Release

The Lakeflow Designer August release adds the Unique operator, expands the Aggregate, Select, and Python operators, and improves the canvas, preview, and version-history experience.

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Databricks AI/BI and GenieAug 27, 2026

Genie Code is now available as a Lakeflow Jobs task (Beta)

You can now run prompts with Genie Code as a task in a Lakeflow Job. Genie Code runs your prompt autonomously. It can read upstream task outputs and call tools as needed. The task returns a link to the resulting Genie Code conversation with its response. See Genie Code task for jobs .

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Databricks AI/BI and GenieAug 27, 2026

Genie Code for AI Runtime (Public Preview)

Use Genie Code to develop and troubleshoot deep learning workloads in notebooks connected to AI Runtime. Now in Public Preview , it generates distributed training code, resolves environment and dependency issues, and debugs GPU and distributed workload failures. See Use Genie Code with AI Runtime .

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Databricks Unity CatalogAug 27, 2026

Share foreign Delta tables with OpenSharing (Public Preview)

You can now use OpenSharing to share foreign Delta tables, which are Delta-format tables registered in a foreign catalog such as OneLake, a Hive metastore, or AWS Glue. Providers add foreign Delta tables to a share, and recipients access the shared data in read-only format.

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