https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/opinion/china-ai-open-weight-us.html

«Two U.S. congressional committees have opened investigations into Airbnb and Cursor’s parent company….»

“Cursor’s parent company.” Nice, NYT. Why not just say who’s Cursor’s parent company?

It’s SpaceX.

That would have been a one-word insertion. Are you assuming your readers (who have to pay for a subscription) are idiots, and that we wouldn’t know? Or are you assuming that of course we all know? Why not just put the one word that’s the name of the parent company in the story? Or did an editor take it out?