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A 4-year-old startup just got Elon Musk to fork out up to $60 billion. Loading audio narration… On Tuesday, Musk’s SpaceX announced that it struck a deal with Cursor, giving it the right to acquire the AI coding startup for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for Cursor’s work if it’s not acquired.The deal lets the space and AI company put its own horse in the AI coding race. SpaceX, which owns AI assistant Grok, competes with Anthropic’s Claude Code, OpenAI’s Codex, and, now, vibe-coding startups such as Lovable, Emergent, and Bolt.”The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to…
Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the mouse movements and keystrokes of its own staff in its pursuit to build more capable and efficient artificial intelligence. The story, which was first reported by Reuters, shows the lengths to which tech companies are going to find new sources of training data — the lifeblood of AI models that helps the programs learn how to more effectively carry out tasks and respond to user queries. When reached for comment by TechCrunch, a Meta spokesperson…
A group of unauthorized users has reportedly gained access to Mythos, the cybersecurity tool recently announced by Anthropic. Much has been made of Mythos and its purported power — an AI product designed for enterprise security that, in the wrong hands, could become a potent hacking tool, according to the company. Now Bloomberg has reported that a “private online forum,” the members of which have not been publicly identified, has managed to gain access to the tool through a third-party vendor. “We’re investigating a report claiming unauthorized access to Claude Mythos Preview through one of our third-party vendor environments,” an…
SpaceX said it has struck a deal with Cursor to develop a next-generation “coding and knowledge work AI,” which includes a surprising provision — an option to buy the popular software development platform for $60 billion later this year. Partnering with and potentially purchasing a leader in the hottest AI product category can only be seen in the context of SpaceX’s much-anticipated public offering. Investors seeking more value in the IPO might see its engagement with Cursor as another way to extract value from Elon Musk’s increasingly sprawling tech conglomerate. The deal won’t shock those who follow the industry closely.…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s intense rivalry with Anthropic has reached a new level. Loading audio narration… During an interview with podcaster Ashlee Vance in an episode of Vance’s “Core Memory” podcast posted on Tuesday, Altman named checked Anthropic while talking about the recent attack on his San Francisco home.”I think the doomerism talk hasn’t helped. I think the way certain other labs talk about us hasn’t helped,” Altman said, adding, “I think the way Anthropic talks about OpenAI doesn’t help.”It’s not clear which Anthropic comments Altman is referring to. In the wake of the early morning attack, Altman wrote a…
Tim Cook’s record is pretty clear: Under his watch, Apple didn’t create a world-changing product. But it posted world-beating sales, and the stock market rewarded him for it. Loading audio narration… Cook also has other accomplishments, including one he is much less likely to boast about: He got Donald Trump on his side.We are a little bit inured to this kind of thing now. In Trump’s second tenure, Big Tech CEOs and everyone else who wants favors from him — or at least wants to escape his wrath — knows how to do it. You can simply cut checks to…
Over his 15-year reign as Apple’s top banana, Tim Cook has become instantly recognizable, powerful beyond imagination, and exceedingly wealthy. Most estimates peg Cook’s current net worth at roughly $3 billion, assets that he amassed largely through performance-based equity awards as Apple’s market cap has grown more than 11x on his watch to roughly $4 trillion. But the job comes with plenty of baggage, too. Cook has also had to navigate two Trump administrations and one Biden administration – each with its own posture toward Big Tech, China, and regulation. Cook also faced down the FBI over encryption, spent years…
DALLAS (AP) — Texas can require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms, a U.S. appeals court ruled Tuesday in a victory for conservatives who have long sought to incorporate more religion into schools.The ruling sets up a potential clash at the U.S. Supreme Court over the issue in the future. Arkansas and Louisiana have passed similar laws, which have also been challenged in courts. And Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed a similar law earlier this moth.The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said in the decision that Texas’ law did not violate the First Amendment, which protects…
Meta is installing new software on its US employees’ computers that will track their keystrokes and mouse movements to train its AI, and it’s sparking backlash within the company, according to internal communications obtained by Business Insider. Loading audio narration… Business Insider obtained the full internal announcement about the launch of the new AI training program. The post says that the software helps AI models improve how humans actually use computers, such as using keyboard shortcuts and choosing from dropdown menus. Reuters first reported on the new tracking software.”For agents to understand how people actually complete everyday tasks using computers,…
Investors are aggressively courting AI researchers to build startups that can make AI more reliable and efficient. Yu Su, an Ohio State professor leading an AI agent lab, said he initially resisted the pressure from VCs to commercialize his work. He finally took the leap last year and spun out his work into a startup when he saw that foundational model advances could make agents truly personalized. NeoCognition, a startup Su describes as a research lab developing self-learning AI agents, has just emerged from stealth with $40 million in seed funding. The round was co-led by Cambium Capital and Walden…