Sources: Microsoft considered buying Cursor in recent weeks but didn't make an offer; Microsoft has been working to boost GitHub Copilot's popularity
Prior to SpaceX's announcement this week that it's obtained the right to acquire Cursor for $60 billion, Microsoft looked at a potential deal …
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NewsMax.com
Glenn Chapman
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SpaceX Gets $60B Option to Buy AI Startup Cursor
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@edzitron.com
Ed Zitron
on bluesky
Ok this makes this headline 20000x funnier — bsky.app/profile/tech... [embedded post]
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@blowdart.me
Barry Dorrans
on bluesky
Why would you pay for a fork of VS Code when you already have VS Code? [embedded post]
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@marypcbuk
Mary Branscombe
on bluesky
Have to wonder if Cursor has been running around begging people to buy them generally so they can survive or specifically so they wouldn't get assimilated and borgified by Musk [embedded post]
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@mntruell
Michael Truell
on x
Excited to partner with the SpaceX team to scale up Composer. A meaningful step on our path to build the best place to code with AI.
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@starplatinum_
@starplatinum_
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Justin Sun vs WLFI - crypto billionaire, founder of TRON, early believer in the Trump narrative late 2024: invests $30M into World Liberty Financial - scales position to ~$75M - becomes one of the largest holders - publicly supports the project September 2025: sends ~$9M in [imag…
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@beffjezos
@beffjezos
on x
Holy based alliance. Mistral cracked French model artisans, Cursor interface and agentic coding data, xAI Collossus compute. Elon assembling the based AI lab Avengers to take on the big 3. LFG
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@dorialexander
@dorialexander
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So long for “EU sovereignty”
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r/technology
r
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SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for ‘our work together’
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r/cursor
r
on reddit
SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for ‘our work together’
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@spacex
@spacex
on x
SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI. The combination of Cursor's leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX's million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will …
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r/spacex
r
on reddit
SpaceX to acquire AI company Cursor for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for their “work together”
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Jordan Novet
Jordan Novet
on linkedin
Today Kate Rooney and I reported that SpaceX wasn't the only company that considered a deal with Cursor, an AI coding startup. …
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Kate Rooney
Kate Rooney
on linkedin
SpaceX wasn't the only one interested in buying AI startup Cursor... Microsoft also looked at buying the coding company before Elon Musk's $60 billion deal, according sources. …
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Mansoor Ahmad
Mansoor Ahmad
on linkedin
SpaceX's option to acquire Cursor for $60B is not a deal. It is a declaration of where the next AI war is being fought. …
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@justinhendrix
Justin Hendrix
on bluesky
“SpaceX said it secured the right to buy artificial-intelligence coding startup Cursor for $60 billion.”
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@stockmktnewz
Evan
on x
Andreessen Horowitz would reportedly make $6 Billion if SpaceX buys Cursor for $60B
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@rmac
Ryan Mac
on bluesky
Tired: landing humans on Mars by 2026 — Wired: Orbital data centers! Self-sustaining moon colony! AI chip factory! $60B deals for AI companies! — In the last 6 months, Musk has completely changed the direction of SpaceX. He's hoping investors will go along for the ride: w…
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r/accelerate
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SpaceX and Cursor have explored a team-up with Mistral to take on AI rivals