# CircleCI News Published articles for CircleCI News. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## CircleCI is now available on Cursor Origin DevFeed: [CircleCI is now available on Cursor Origin]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Nathan Fish Published: 2026-09-01T18:45:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [The CircleCI Blog Feed | CircleCI]() Topics: [CI/CD](), [Testing](), [AI-assisted coding](), [Pull Request]() Tags: [agentic-ci-cd](), [ai-coding-agents](), [ai-development](), [ci](), [ci-cd](), [circleci](), [circleci-cursor-origin](), [circleci-news](), [cursor-origin](), [cursor-origin-ci-cd](), [integrations](), [mcp](), [origin-ci-cd-integration](), [pull-request](), [testing]() ### AI overview CircleCI has released a beta integration with Cursor Origin, allowing teams to connect Origin-hosted repositories and run CI/CD pipelines on pushes and pull requests. The integration supports agent-oriented validation through parallel execution, targeted testing, and feedback via the CircleCI CLI and MCP. ### Source excerpt CircleCI now integrates with Cursor Origin in beta. Connect an Origin repo, keep your existing .circleci/config.yml, and add agent-friendly CI/CD to your Origin projects. ## CircleCI Smarter Testing: Stop running tests that don't matter DevFeed: [CircleCI Smarter Testing: Stop running tests that don't matter]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Nathan Fish Published: 2026-08-26T19:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [The CircleCI Blog Feed | CircleCI]() Topics: [Testing](), [CI/CD]() Tags: [accelerate](), [auto-rerun-failed-tests](), [ci-cd](), [circleci](), [circleci-news](), [developer-productivity](), [dynamic-test-splitting](), [engineering-productivity](), [flaky](), [intelligent-test-selection](), [parallel](), [pipeline](), [quality](), [reduce](), [smarter-testing](), [test-impact-analysis](), [testing](), [tests](), [time]() ### AI overview CircleCI describes Smarter Testing, a set of features designed to reduce CI/CD test execution time by skipping tests unaffected by changes, balancing parallel nodes, and retrying flaky tests. The article says early users have seen test runs up to four times faster. ### Source excerpt Testing eats up to half your pipeline time. See how CircleCI Smarter Testing skips unaffected tests, rebalances parallel nodes, and retries flaky tests. ## 5 takeaways from the State of Software Delivery Q2 Pulse report DevFeed: [5 takeaways from the State of Software Delivery Q2 Pulse report]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Jacob Schmitt Published: 2026-07-08T13:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [The CircleCI Blog Feed | CircleCI]() Topics: [Software](), [Development](), [Artificial Intelligence]() Tags: [ci-cd-benchmarks](), [circleci-news](), [cost](), [developer-productivity](), [efficiency](), [merge-efficiency-ratio](), [popular](), [report](), [software-delivery](), [software-delivery-metrics](), [software-delivery-pulse](), [software-delivery-report](), [state-of-software-delivery](), [teams](), [velocity](), [workflows]() ### AI overview CircleCI releases its 2026 State of Software Delivery Q2 Pulse report, based on more than 20 million workflows analyzed in March 2026. The report finds that the gap between high-performing teams and the median team widened, while feature-branch throughput increased and main-branch throughput remained flat. ### Source excerpt The velocity gap is widening. See what 20M+ workflows reveal about merge efficiency, delivery costs, and the teams pulling ahead in the Q2 Pulse report.