theregister

Cursor-Opus agent snuffs out startup’s production database

Jer (Jeremy) Crane, the founder of automotive SaaS platform PocketOS, spent the weekend recovering from a data extinction event caused by the company's AI coding agent in less than 10 seconds. Not one ...
Business Insider

SpaceX and Cursor have explored a team-up with Mistral to take on AI rivals

Elon Musk is ramping up efforts to compete with AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI. Musk's AI startup, xAI, has held discussions in recent weeks with Mistral and AI coding startup Cursor about a potential ...
cryptopolitan

SpaceX secures $60bn option on Cursor as both sides found an enemy of their enemy

SpaceX has secured the right to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year. Cursor has grown from a $2.5 billion valuation at the start of 2025 to nearly $30 billion by year-end.
TechCrunch

SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60B

SpaceX said it has struck a deal with Cursor to develop a next-generation “coding and knowledge work AI,” which includes a surprising provision — an option to buy the popular software development ...
Reuters

SpaceX says it has option to acquire startup Cursor for $60 billion

April 21 (Reuters) - SpaceX said it has secured an option to either acquire code-generation startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion for their new partnership, as it pushes ...
CNBC

SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for 'our work together'

SpaceX said in a post on X that it's obtained the rights to buy coding startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year or pay $10 billion for the work the companies are doing together. "SpaceXAI and ...
ZDNet

Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Wired

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 ...
VentureBeat

Cursor's Composer 2 was secretly built on a Chinese AI model — and it exposes a deeper problem with Western open-source AI

The $29.3 billion AI coding tool just got caught with its provenance showing. When Cursor launched Composer 2 last week — calling it "frontier-level coding intelligence" — it presented the model as ...
Forbes

Cursor Goes To War For AI Coding Dominance

On January 5, employees at Cursor returned from the holiday weekend to an all-hands meeting with a slide deck titled “War Time.” During the break, employees playing with Anthropic’s latest model, Opus ...
InfoQ

Agent Trace: Cursor Proposes an Open Specification for AI Code Attribution

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