Description: In April 2025, users of Cursor, an AI-powered coding assistant developed by Anysphere, reported being logged out unexpectedly. An AI-powered support bot, "Sam," allegedly responded with an invented login policy to justify the behavior. The hallucinated policy was not based on any real company change. The incident reportedly led to subscription cancellations.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Anysphere and Unknown LLM developer developed an AI system deployed by Cursor and Anysphere, which harmed Software developers , Small businesses relying on Cursor and Cursor users.
Alleged implicated AI systems: Cursor login system and Cursor AI support bot ("Sam")
Incident Stats
Incident ID
1039
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2025-04-19
Editors
Daniel Atherton
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AI startup Anysphere has been riding high over the past two months, thanks to the skyrocketing popularity of its AI-powered software coding assistant, Cursor. The company, which was eyed for acquisition by OpenAI and has reportedly been in …
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
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