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A new AI-generated game called Founder Trail simulates startup survival, allowing founders to paste their company URL and watch an AI-driven narrative unfold with permanent death. The game, created by the thread.app team…
Mistral AI teased a new sparse 'fat' model family for early access in July, but a viral meme about a 'Le Chaton Fat' model with 24T-30T parameters was debunked as an internet hoax. The company's actual latest model, Mist…
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the maker of AI coding tool Cursor, in a stock deal valuing the startup at $60 billion. The acquisition, disclosed in a regulatory filing, will make Anysphere a wholly owned SpaceX…
Databricks announced the public preview of Apps on Databricks Marketplace, allowing customers to discover, install, and run third-party data and AI applications directly within their secure workspaces. Providers can dist…
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) launched a CFO community program that brings together small cohorts of finance leaders for in-person sessions over a year, aiming to provide a trusted peer network for discussing sensitive deci…
SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding company Cursor's parent Anysphere for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, expected to close in Q3 2026 pending regulatory approvals. The deal follows an April option that allow…
SpaceX acquired AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in stock just days after its record-breaking IPO, using its surging share price as a near-costless acquisition currency. The deal, the largest ever for a venture-b…
Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced updates to its Private Cloud AI platform on March 16, co-engineered with Nvidia, delivering up to a 20% improvement in token throughput for AI inference tasks. New network expansion r…
SpaceX shares surged for a third consecutive day, pushing its market value to $2.8 trillion and briefly overtaking Amazon to become the world's fourth-largest stock. The rally was driven by limited public float and stron…
SpaceX will acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, aiming to gain a competitive edge against Anthropic and OpenAI. The deal, announced in a regulatory filing, will make Cursor a wholly owned subsidiary of Spac…
The University of Sydney's AI platform Cogniti, launched on Microsoft Marketplace in January 2026, enables educators to build course-specific AI tutors. Early trials in New Zealand nursing schools showed 100% student rec…
Angel Armendariz, a 20-year enterprise sales veteran from AWS, released an open-source Claude Skill called Forward Deployed Selling (FDS) that encodes a sales methodology for the AI era. The skill, free and installable i…
Canadian LLM developer Cohere reports a surge in inbound interest after the US blocked Anthropic's latest models, positioning itself as a sovereign alternative to US AI providers.
JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citi, and MUFG are arranging $2.5 billion in debt financing to back AI-driven investment group Long Lake Management's $6.3 billion acquisition of American Express Global Business Travel. …
SpaceX will acquire AI coding tool Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock transaction, the companies announced today. The deal comes days after SpaceX's IPO and months after its merger with xAI, as Cursor struggles with …
SpaceX acquired AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion, highlighting the booming vibe-coding market. Other startups like Lovable and Replit are raising billions as investors bet on AI-assisted coding tools that enable …
SpaceX announced it will acquire Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in stock, four days after its Nasdaq debut at a $1.77 trillion valuation. The deal pairs Cursor's $2.6 billion annu…
SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the parent company of AI coding tool Cursor, in a $60 billion all-stock deal following its record-breaking IPO. The acquisition aims to combine Cursor's software with SpaceX's computin…
Leaked financial documents show OpenAI's revenue grew from $3.7 billion in 2024 to $13.07 billion in 2025, but operating losses widened from $8.78 billion to $20.92 billion as expenses outpaced income. The company, which…
Mistral has adopted a plump cartoon cat as its mascot on the Vibe landing page, directly referencing the viral 'Le Chaton Fat' AI meme that briefly fooled researchers into thinking it was a real model. CEO Arthur Mensch …