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Business

OpenAI walks away from $1B Cursor deal after SpaceX buys the coding startup

OpenAI ended a partnership projected to bring in over $1B annually rather than keep serving models to an Elon Musk-owned company.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

Starcloud raises $250M to build orbital data centers ahead of launch crunch

The Nvidia-backed startup hits a $2.3B valuation as it races to secure Starship capacity before SpaceX retires Falcon 9 in 2028.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Cognition CEO denies SpaceX tried to acquire the AI coding startup
Business

Cognition CEO denies SpaceX tried to acquire the AI coding startup

Scott Wu says Cognition 'is not for sale' after a report that SpaceX approached the Devin maker, now in talks at a $40B valuation.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Cursor launches Origin, a GitHub rival, as outages mount
Business

Cursor launches Origin, a GitHub rival, as outages mount

The AI code editor now hosts repos, arriving the same day GitHub suffered a six-hour worldwide outage with a 20% error rate.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Ex-SpaceX engineers launch 1872, an AI-run robotic factory for steel skids
Business

Ex-SpaceX engineers launch 1872, an AI-run robotic factory for steel skids

Backed by $15M in seed funding, 1872 is automating steel fabrication for AI data centers as US welding shortages hit 320,500 by 2029.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
xAI faces expanded lawsuit as woman says stepfather used Grok to make 7,000 explicit images
Security

xAI faces expanded lawsuit as woman says stepfather used Grok to make 7,000 explicit images

A fourth plaintiff joins a Tennessee suit alleging Grok generated child sexual abuse material from a childhood photo.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX closes $60B Cursor acquisition, pulls AI coding into its GPU empire
Business

SpaceX closes $60B Cursor acquisition, pulls AI coding into its GPU empire

The deal folds Cursor into a SpaceX stack that already includes xAI and rents compute to Anthropic and Google.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Cursor launches ₹649 India-only plan weeks before $60B SpaceX close
Business

Cursor launches ₹649 India-only plan weeks before $60B SpaceX close

The AI coding startup's first localized subscription undercuts its $20 Pro tier by two-thirds as India becomes its third-largest market.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Analysis

Altman calls Musk's space data centers a short-term sales pitch

The OpenAI CEO's weekend jab lines up with what space-compute engineers have been saying: orbital AI inference is a 2030s business, not a near-term one.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Business

Musk vows not to 'cut off' Anthropic from SpaceX's $40B compute deal

Musk called Anthropic the current AI leader and pledged not to weaponize the 300 MW hosting contract, reversing a September 2025 dismissal.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI exits to top 25 years of US venture returns

SpaceX went public at $1.77T; with Anthropic and OpenAI queued behind it, the trio will clear $4T in combined value.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

Ex-OpenAI product chief Kevin Weil joins Stoke Space board

The former OpenAI CPO takes a director seat at the $1.34B reusable-rocket startup, fueling speculation about a Sam Altman–SpaceX play.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Cursor's $60B SpaceX deal puts its OpenAI and Anthropic ties in doubt
Business

Cursor's $60B SpaceX deal puts its OpenAI and Anthropic ties in doubt

Cursor wants to keep serving rival models after the acquisition closes, but its two biggest suppliers now have to sell through Elon Musk.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX shows investors a handset-like AI device prototype
News

SpaceX shows investors a handset-like AI device prototype

The device reportedly runs on a proprietary OS with xAI integration, pitching Musk into the same hardware race as OpenAI and Jony Ive.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Business

Meta plans cloud business to resell AI compute, following SpaceX playbook

Meta Compute would sell raw capacity and hosted models, targeting AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure after $182.9B in infrastructure commitments.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Masayoshi Son questions Musk's orbital data center pitch
Analysis

Masayoshi Son questions Musk's orbital data center pitch

SoftBank's CEO says space-based compute won't arrive in time for the AI race that matters — the next few years, not the next decade.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX signs $6.3B compute deal with open-source lab Reflection AI
Business

SpaceX signs $6.3B compute deal with open-source lab Reflection AI

Reflection becomes the third AI lab to rent GB300 chips from SpaceX's Colossus 2 site, joining Anthropic and Google.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after record IPO
Business

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after record IPO

The all-stock deal closes a path Musk laid out in April, when SpaceX agreed to buy Cursor or pay a $10B break-up fee.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
SpaceX opens at $150 as Anthropic and OpenAI line up for IPO summer
Business

SpaceX opens at $150 as Anthropic and OpenAI line up for IPO summer

SpaceX popped 11% on debut while Anthropic and OpenAI prepare to follow, ending the FAANG era and ushering in what insiders are calling MANGOS.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Grok still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a US lawmaker
Security

Grok still hosting sexualized deepfakes of celebrities and a US lawmaker

A WIRED review found dozens of nonconsensual explicit images on Grok.com days before SpaceX's IPO, despite xAI's January safeguard pledges.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Ex-xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over alleged firing for Grok safety complaints
Security

Ex-xAI engineer Devin Kim sues over alleged firing for Grok safety complaints

Suit filed in California state court days before SpaceX's IPO targets xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba, not Musk, over Grok safety pushback.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Spin founder raises $5M to build space data centers at Orbital
Business

Spin founder raises $5M to build space data centers at Orbital

Euwyn Poon's new company plans 10,000 satellites delivering a gigawatt of inference compute — once Starship is flying commercially.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
S&P 500 refuses to bend rules for SpaceX, blocking OpenAI and Anthropic too
Business

S&P 500 refuses to bend rules for SpaceX, blocking OpenAI and Anthropic too

S&P Dow Jones Indices kept its profitability and seasoning rules intact, denying $14B in passive buying to SpaceX and shutting the door on AI IPOs.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Business

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month to rent xAI compute capacity

The 32-month deal covers 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and lands one week before SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO on the Nasdaq.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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