GitHub Goes Down Worldwide for Six Hours as Cursor Unveils Rival Platform Origin

GitHub suffered a worldwide outage exceeding six hours on August 18, 2026, with degraded functions and a nearly 20% global error rate. The same day, Cursor detailed Origin, an AI-native code hosting rival now in beta on all paid plans. A LeadDev analysis counted 257 GitHub outages over the past year, contributing to an exodus of high-profile users.