SpaceX makes its $60bn Cursor takeover official, days after its record IPO
SpaceX makes its $60bn Cursor takeover official, days after its record IPO

SpaceX has made it official. In a filing on Tuesday, Elon Musk’s newly public rocket company said it had signed a binding agreement to buy Anysphere, the startup behind the popular AI coding tool Cursor, in an all-stock deal that values the company at …

Claude earns more revenue per user than ChatGPT, Sensor Tower finds
Claude earns more revenue per user than ChatGPT, Sensor Tower finds

OpenAI still rules AI by sheer size, but it is no longer running away with it. ChatGPT’s apps crossed 1 billion monthly users last month, the fastest any app has reached the milestone, according to Sensor Tower’s State of AI report. Yet on the metric t…

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX’s struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.

SailPoint plans to buy Entro to pour non-human identities into its “Agentic Fabric”
SailPoint plans to buy Entro to pour non-human identities into its “Agentic Fabric”

The race to secure non-human identities just produced its second deal of the day. SailPoint, the Austin-based identity-security giant, said it plans to buy Entro, a Tel Aviv startup that finds and protects the credentials, keys and machine accounts tha…

1Password acquires Apono to govern what AI agents can do once they’re inside
1Password acquires Apono to govern what AI agents can do once they’re inside

1Password is buying its way into the agentic enterprise. The Toronto identity-security company said on Monday it has acquired Apono, an Israeli startup that decides, in real time, what every human, machine and AI agent is allowed to touch inside a comp…

SoftBank and OpenAI launch “Patching as a Service” to defend Japan’s critical infrastructure
SoftBank and OpenAI launch “Patching as a Service” to defend Japan’s critical infrastructure

SoftBank and OpenAI are moving into cyber defence. The two said on Tuesday they are launching “Patching as a Service,” a security product built on OpenAI’s technology, to shield the companies behind Japan’s critical infrastructure from a rising wave of…

Danish startup Good Tape launches ‘Names’ campaign honouring journos killed in the line of duty

Good Tape, the Copenhagen-based creator of the novel security-first AI-powered transcription tool, has announced today the launch of its global initiative Names. The Names campaign signifies Good Tap…

Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.
Want to get a data center online quickly? Give it some flex.

At the end of a tense and scoreless first half of a soccer match between the English men’s team and rival Germany, millions of Brits let out a collective sigh and did what they so often do in moments of stress: They made tea. That wave of electric kettles clicking on, however, caused a different…

France to spend €655m on AI and a single chatbot for the whole civil service
France to spend €655m on AI and a single chatbot for the whole civil service

France wants its civil servants to share a chatbot. On Monday, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu announced an additional €655m for artificial intelligence, the headline use of which is a single sovereign conversational assistant intended for every publi…

Alibaba unveils AI models for robots as China’s focus shifts to agents
Alibaba unveils AI models for robots as China’s focus shifts to agents

Alibaba has revealed its first suite of AI models for robots, a move that says as much about where Chinese technology is heading as about the models themselves. The launch came as the industry pivots away from chatbots and towards agents, the systems m…