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SpaceX is acquiring AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in stock, concluding a deal announced in April. The acquisition aims to bolster SpaceX's xAI division, which has faced controversies including Grok chatbot inc…
A short squeeze in SpaceX perpetual futures briefly sent the company's implied valuation to $3 trillion on blockchain-based markets, surpassing Amazon and Microsoft. The squeeze liquidated over $50 million in short posit…
Local AI models have reached a tipping point where they are now viable for agentic coding and development tasks, according to a developer who has tested models like Mistral 7B, Gemma 4, and Qwen variants on a 2022 M2 Mac…
Clayem launches an LLM-assisted tool to help policyholders fight property insurance claims, using AI to analyze policies and licensed public adjusters to negotiate with insurers. The service operates on a contingency fee…
Mediawan is rebooting its hit documentary franchise 'Apocalypse' with 'Apocalypse Civilizations: Rome,' using artificial intelligence to recreate archival-style footage of the Battle of Actium, which decided the destiny …
A developer open-sourced Polymr, an agent platform for controllable execution and adaptive interaction through dynamically generated tools and interfaces. The platform features standardized preview modes, granular permis…
SpaceX announced a $60 billion all-stock deal to acquire Anysphere, the company behind AI coding tool Cursor, on June 16, 2026. The acquisition aims to combine Anysphere's distribution capabilities with SpaceX's supercom…
MWC Barcelona 2026 focused on AI infrastructure, with companies like Supermicro, NVIDIA, and telecom giants showcasing AI-RAN and sovereign AI solutions. CME Group launched the first compute futures contracts for GPU ren…
Coinbase launched 'Coinbase for Agents' on June 11, 2025, enabling AI agents to autonomously earn and spend credits via its x402 micropayments protocol. The platform uses MCP-native APIs for dynamic service discovery, pr…
Tailscale expanded its AI access and control platform Aperture with a browser chat interface, universal data connectors, identity-preserving access, and sandboxing for AI agents, aiming to give IT teams visibility and go…
SpaceX surpassed Amazon in market capitalization on June 16, 2026, three days after its Nasdaq IPO, with shares rising 8% to a valuation of $2.74 trillion. The same day, SpaceX announced a $60 billion stock acquisition o…
SoundHound AI disclosed a risky strategy for identifying potential acquisition targets, involving the use of debt and stock to fund deals. The company aims to expand its voice AI platform through acquisitions, but the ap…
A Hacker News thread on June 16 revealed that local LLMs like Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B handle about 70% of daily coding tasks but fall short on complex multi-file reasoning, creating a gap akin to a junior versus senior develope…
OpenAI's Codex AI coding tool experienced elevated errors on Tuesday morning, with users reporting 'model at capacity' issues. OpenAI acknowledged the problem and resolved it by 9:48 a.m. ET, restoring full service. The …
Authorizer 2.3.0 introduces Zanzibar-style fine-grained authorization (FGA) for vector search, enabling permission-aware RAG by pre-filtering document retrieval based on user access rights. The update includes an MCP ser…
A developer launched Offload, a tool that enables cross-device handoffs for Claude Code and Codex by prepending "/offload" to prompts, running tasks on another device or setting up a VPS. It handles environment keys, Git…
SpaceX agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion in an all-stock deal, granting Cursor's investors equity in SpaceX instead of cash. The acquisition, expected to close in Q3 2026, will result in approxim…
Limitless Labs, a two-year-old Israeli startup, raised $20M in Series A funding for its AI agent that programs CNC machining, already used by Blue Origin and Cadillac's F1 team. The company aims to capture veteran machin…
Developer Leon Becker released vibeSH, an open-source Python REPL that uses a large language model to hallucinate an entire Linux terminal—filesystem, processes, and network—without touching the real machine. The project…
Materialize announced 28 weekly releases to build a live context graph for AI agents, enabling real-time data feedback loops. The platform now includes an MCP Server for agent discovery and querying, improved performance…