Digest: March 18-22, 2026

OpenAI bought Astral and took the main Python tools, Bezos started raising $100B for an AI fund, and Cursor released Composer 2 built on Kimi K2.5.

Author: Michael Kokin ·

OpenAI bought Astral and took the main Python tools, Bezos started raising $100B for an AI fund, and Cursor released Composer 2 built on China's Kimi K2.5.

AI

OpenAI bought Astral — creators of uv, ruff, and ty. Team joins Codex. Projects remain open-source but community is concerned — worst case: fork. Astral

Cursor released Composer 2 — frontier coding at low cost. Built on Kimi K2.5 by Moonshot AI. Standard: $0.50/$2.50 per M tokens. Cursor

Xiaomi showed MiMo-V2-Pro with 1T parameters. MoE model activates 42B at a time. Approaches GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.6. VentureBeat

MiniMax launched M2.7 model. Autonomous debugging, research agents, office automation. TestingCatalog

Software

OpenAI announced desktop super-app. Combines ChatGPT, Codex, and browser with agentic capabilities. TechCrunch

Google unveiled Stitch — vibe design on AI canvas. Understands canvas context, voice design, prototype generation. Google

Perplexity launched Health Agent in the US. Personalized health hub with agents for nutrition, sleep, and lab tests. TestingCatalog

Google started testing Gemini for Mac. Desktop version gets Desktop Intelligence — desktop context access. Engadget

Robots and Hardware

Amazon showed Trainium lab — chips used by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Apple. Major AI companies started switching to Amazon chips for model training. TechCrunch

Business

Bezos started raising $100B for AI manufacturing automation. Fund will acquire chipmaking, defense, and aerospace companies. Bezos held talks in the Middle East and Singapore. WSJ

China mobilized thousands of solo AI startups. Free apartments, offices, GPU subsidies, and loans — state policy instead of venture capital. Rest of World