The launch of Cursor Composer 2 was supposed to be a victory lap for the $30B coding startup, but it quickly turned into a "Napster moment for AI". In this deep-dive episode, Neural Intel explores the technical and legal fallout of the March 2026 leak.We examine:

• The Technical Evidence: Why the identical tokenizer and internal model ID made a denial impossible for Cursor.
• The Licensing Trap: Kimi K2.5’s modified MIT license requires a prominent UI label for companies earning over $20M monthly—a requirement Cursor initially ignored.
• The "Fireworks" Workaround: How a commercial partnership with Fireworks AI allowed Cursor to pivot from "thief" to "authorized partner" in less than 24 hours.
• The Future of AI Derivatives: If 3/4 of a model's training is custom RL, who really "owns" the final product?.

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