OpenAI says it's ending its deal with Cursor because Elon Musk's companies violate contracts
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Model access is becoming entangled with corporate control and perceived ToS risk — if your acquirer is seen as a policy violator, your AI supply chain can break overnight. Any startup built on third-party models now has to underwrite not just vendor risk, but acquirer reputational and compliance risk as well.
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