SpaceX Buys AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion

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SpaceX locks in $60 billion Cursor deal to power AI coding push
Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX.O) said on Tuesday it would acquire Anysphere, the software firm behind the popular AI coding agent Cursor, for $60 billion, in a bid to ramp up its presence ​in the enterpris...

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SpaceX's $60 billion Cursor AI deal: What is Cursor AI and who are the founders?
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SpaceX locks in $60 billion Cursor deal to close gap with rivals in AI coding race
SpaceX is having a week for the history books. It’s only Tuesday
SpaceX is now bigger than Amazon. Its shares are more popular than every other stock on the market, combined.

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‘Opportunity to build life-changing wealth’: Goldman Sachs analyst says $10,000 in SpaceX today could become $150,000 by 2030
SpaceX overtakes Amazon to become world's fifth-most valuable firm after stock surge
Dow Jones| Nasdaq | US Stock Market Today | Live: SpaceX surpasses Microsoft, Amazon in market value on post-IPO surge; US market edge higher
SpaceX shares surged 9.7% in premarket trading on Tuesday, putting Elon Musk's space and AI company on track to overtake Amazon and become the world's fifth-most valuable listed firm.

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SpaceX rally adds $164 billion to Musk's fortune, more than Buffett's net worth
Dow hits record high as oil slides; SpaceX soars
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A founder says Cursor's AI agent deleted his startup's database, causing chaos for customers

Cursor recently said that SpaceX had secured an option to acquire the company for $60 billion.Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Startups using AI agents have a new problem to worry about: "vibe deletion." Jer Crane, the ...
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'Rogue' AI agent from Cursor goes haywire, deletes company's entire database

A software company founder went viral this week after sharing a post on social media describing how an AI agent threw his business into chaos for 30 hours. Jeremy Crane, founder and CEO of PocketOS, which mainly works with car rental companies, shared in ...
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Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex

Cursor announced Thursday the launch of Cursor 3, a new product interface that allows users to spin up AI coding agents to complete tasks on their behalf. The product, which was developed under the code name Glass, is Cursor’s response to agentic coding ...
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‘I violated every principle I was given’: An AI agent deleted a software company’s entire database. It may not be the AI’s fault

Another cautionary tale about AI has hit social media. This time, a software company’s founder is claiming that a Claude-powered version of AI coding tool Cursor deleted his entire production database in just nine seconds. Jer Crane is the founder of ...
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'Rogue' AI agent from SF-based Cursor goes haywire, deletes company's entire database

A software company founder went viral this week after sharing a post on social media describing how an AI agent threw his business into chaos for 30 hours. Jeremy Crane, founder and CEO of PocketOS, which mainly works with car rental companies, shared in ...