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SpaceX strikes $60 billion deal to acquire or fund Cursor, an AI coding platform, as Elon Musk's companies race against OpenAI and Google in artificial intelligence

SpaceX strikes $60 billion deal to acquire or fund Cursor, an AI coding platform, as Elon Musk's companies race against OpenAI and Google in artificial intelligence

SpaceX announced a deal to either buy Cursor (an AI tool that auto-generates computer code) for $60 billion or pay a $10 billion fee if the acquisition doesn't close — likely timed ahead of a planned IPO for Musk's combined SpaceX/xAI/X businesses.

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