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Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race: Cursor launched Origin, its code...

Hosting platform, for paid users hours before GitHub suffered a 6-hour-42-minute outage with near 20% errors on pull requests, issues, and APIs and near 50% on archive downloads. Enterprise SSO and Copilot also failed. The outage highlights an opening for AI-native code hosting rivals.

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Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race: Cursor launched Origin, its code hosting platform, for paid users hours before GitHub suffered a 6-hour-42-minute outage with near 20% errors on pull requests, issues, and APIs and near 50% on archive downloads. Enterprise SSO and Copilot also failed. The outage highlights an opening for AI-native code hosting rivals.