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SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60B — What It Means for Developers

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On Friday, SpaceX closed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor. It's the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup in history, and it folds one of the most popular AI coding tools on the planet directly into Elon Musk's empire, alongside xAI (which Spac…

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  1. 2026-08-24 07:22 · DEV Community — AI
    SpaceX Bought Cursor for $60B — What It Means for Developers

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