SpaceX cuts a deal to maybe buy Cursor for $60 billion.

. Buying this startup that’s focused on AI coding could help xAI’s tools compete with financial market leader Anthropic, as well as the other competitors. A analysis by The Information this week said Sergey Brin has directed Google’s “strike team” to help its agentic AI tools catch up, while Sam Altman analysisedly declared a “code red” at OpenAI last year before shutting down Sora to focus on the ChatGPT superapp and its own Codex too …
Read the full story at The Verge. With an IPO looming for Elon Musk’s SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for $60 billion or pay a fee of $10 billion.