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SpaceX Secures $60 Billion Option on Cursor Ahead of Record IPO

SpaceX Secures $60 Billion Option on Cursor Ahead of Record IPO

SpaceX said Tuesday it obtained the option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion to keep the current partnership. The move lands weeks before a planned June IPO at a reported $1.75 trillion valuation, and adds Cursor's enterprise coding product to xAI's Colossus supercomputer after Cursor's top engineers joined SpaceX in March. Cursor's own $50B+ funding round makes the premium look restrained.

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Anthropic Cutoff Exposes OpenClaw's Automation Cost Problem
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Anthropic Cutoff Exposes OpenClaw's Automation Cost Problem

Anthropic's April cutoff for Claude subscriptions in third-party agent tools has made OpenClaw's hidden cost clearer: the software is free, but always-on automation can turn simple jobs into metered loops with context, tools, memory and security risk attached. Most teams should start with scripts, workflows or one targeted model call before reaching for a persistent agent.

Harkaram Grewal · 11 min read ·
Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week
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Repo Radar: 5 GitHub Projects Worth Your Week

Repo Radar looks at five fast-moving GitHub projects: Hermes Agent, OpenScreen, Google AI Edge Gallery, DeepTutor, and Multica. The pattern is clear. Open source is moving from code libraries into full products for agents, local AI, screen demos, and learning workflows.

Marcus Schuler · 9 min read ·
Intermediate Tutorial: Build Useful Chrome Skills for Gemini Workflows
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Intermediate Tutorial: Build Useful Chrome Skills for Gemini Workflows

Chrome Skills turn repeated Gemini in Chrome prompts into reusable browser workflows. This intermediate tutorial shows how to confirm access, save useful prompts, compare selected tabs, build a research verification Skill, and keep the library from becoming clutter. It also explains where the rollout is limited, why selected tabs matter, when a saved prompt is too risky for confidential work, and how to test outputs before trusting them.

Harkaram Grewal · 16 min read ·
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Karpathy Killed His RAG Pipeline for a Folder of Markdown. Here's the Full Build Guide.

Karpathy's LLM Wiki thread drew 16M views. His Gist with zero code got 5,000 stars. The pattern, a hands-on tutorial, the ecosystem, and why the "idea file" may matter more than the wiki.

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The Problem With OpenAI and Anthropic. $1.2 Trillion in AI Wants to Go Public, and Neither Company Can Close the Trust Gap.

OpenAI's shares are going unsold. Anthropic leaked its source code twice. Both want IPOs worth $1.2 trillion. Neither can close the trust gap.

A profile of John Ternus: The new Apple CEO is not the next Steve Jobs. He is the hinge.
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A profile of John Ternus: The new Apple CEO is not the next Steve Jobs. He is the hinge.

Apple says John Ternus becomes CEO on September 1, while Tim Cook stays through summer and moves to executive chairman. The simple answer hides the harder profile. Ternus is not being asked to copy Steve Jobs or tear down Cook's operating machine. He is being asked to decide faster inside a company built to polish every edge. Siri, foldables and AI devices will show whether that hinge actually moves.

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