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SpaceX explores $60B acquisition of Cursor, an AI coding assistant losing ground to OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceX explores $60B acquisition of Cursor, an AI coding assistant losing ground to OpenAI and Anthropic

SpaceX is in talks to buy Cursor, a startup that makes an AI-powered code editor for software developers, with a reported option to acquire it for $60 billion. Cursor competes directly with GitHub Copilot (made by Microsoft/OpenAI) and Claude (made by Anthropic) in helping programmers write code faster.

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