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Elon Musk SpaceX Company Predicted To Reach Ten Trillion Dollar Valuation | Celebrity Insider
Elon Musk's SpaceX drew bold predictions about its future worth when financial commentator APompliano declared the space company will eventually hit a $10 trillion valuation. The market analyst made the striking claim in a tweet that caught attention across social media platforms. APompliano, who regularly shares insights about emerging markets and high-growth companies, didn't hedge his prediction with qualifiers or timelines. The tweet racked up 858 likes and 59 retweets, suggesting the prediction resonated with followers who've watched SpaceX's meteoric rise over the past decade. That level of engagement indicates people are taking the bold valuation seriously, or at least find it worth discussing. To put this prediction in perspective, SpaceX currently holds a private valuation around $180 billion based on recent funding rounds. A jump to $10 trillion would represent an increase of more than 50 times its current worth. That's the kind of growth that transforms companies into entire economic ecosystems. For context, no public company has ever reached a $10 trillion market cap. Apple, currently the world's most valuable public company, sits around $3 trillion. Microsoft and Saudi Aramco have also crossed the $2 trillion threshold, but $10 trillion remains uncharted territory. SpaceX's path to such astronomical valuations would likely depend on several key factors coming together. The company's Starship program aims to make space travel dramatically cheaper and more routine. Their Starlink satellite internet service continues expanding globally, potentially creating a massive recurring revenue stream. The space economy itself keeps growing. Satellite services, space tourism, asteroid mining, and eventual Mars colonization represent markets that barely existed a decade ago. If SpaceX positions itself at the center of multiple space-based industries, the math starts looking different. Musk's track record with Tesla also provides some historical precedent. Tesla went from a niche electric car startup to one of the world's most valuable automakers, proving that revolutionary technology can create unexpectedly large market caps. Tesla's success came from being early to electric vehicles and autonomous driving technology. SpaceX follows a similar playbook in the space industry. The company pioneered reusable rockets, dramatically reducing launch costs. Their Falcon 9 rockets now handle a significant portion of global satellite launches, including missions for NASA and commercial clients. The Starlink internet service adds another dimension to SpaceX's business model. Rather than just launching satellites for other companies, SpaceX operates its own satellite constellation providing internet service to remote areas worldwide. This creates ongoing subscription revenue instead of one-time launch fees. APompliano's prediction arrives as SpaceX continues hitting major milestones. The company's Starship vehicle completed several test flights, moving closer to becoming operational for both satellite deployment and eventual human missions to Mars. Space industry analysts have noted that successful Mars missions could unlock entirely new revenue streams. Everything from scientific research contracts to space tourism to resource extraction could become viable businesses if transportation costs drop enough. The $10 trillion prediction also reflects broader trends in how investors value companies with massive addressable markets. Tech companies like Amazon and Google achieved enormous valuations by expanding into multiple industries beyond their original focus areas. Whether SpaceX actually reaches $10 trillion depends on execution across multiple ambitious projects. The company needs Starship to work reliably, Starlink to capture significant market share, and the space economy to grow as rapidly as supporters expect. APompliano's bold prediction captures the kind of optimism that surrounds SpaceX and the broader space industry. Time will tell if that optimism translates into the extraordinary valuations some observers anticipate.
Before the IPO: SpaceX Just Set Up a $60 Billion Deal to Buy This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Company - AOL
SpaceX's partnership with Cursor could also have implications for Tesla. SpaceX is gearing up for what looks poised to be the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history. The company is expected go public in June at a valuation between $1.75 trillion and $2 trillion. Its first round of public share sales is projected to raise roughly $75 billion. Based on recent news, the company could wind up turning around and using most of the proceeds from its IPO to purchase an artificial intelligence (AI) coding specialist. SpaceX said recently that it had signed an agreement that would allow it to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Alternatively, the deal also leaves the door open for SpaceX to instead pay the AI coding specialist $10 billion for their work together. With SpaceX seemingly set to make IPO history in the next few months, what does the company's deal with Cursor mean for potential investors? Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue " Image source: Getty Images. In a post on X announcing the Cursor deal, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the two companies are working to "create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI." While SpaceX is best known for its rocket-launching and Starlink internet services, the company is also making artificial intelligence a big part of its growth strategy. Earlier this year, Musk moved to merge his xAI company with SpaceX. Cursor's core product is Composer -- an AI software coding tool that helps developers test their code with documentation. SpaceX's move to either acquire the company at a $60 billion valuation or pay $10 billion for its services represents a big vote of confidence in the coding specialist's tech and an important development in Musk's company's approach to the AI race. While xAI has solid footing in many aspects of the artificial-intelligence competition, it's still behind Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex in some key respects. Through the partnership with Cursor, Musk is aiming to strengthen SpaceX's competitive positioning in a crucial AI battlefield. Along with providing useful tools to software developers, the focus on building out AI coding technologies has the potential to support systems capable of self-improvement and deliver disruptive advantages. According to sources cited by Bloomberg, it's seemingly more likely that SpaceX will wind up purchasing Cursor outright than paying $10 billion for its services. Because Musk's space company is on the verge of carrying out its IPO, it would need to resubmit key informational filings related to its public debut -- a move that could potentially result in the delay of its initial public offering. Those sources suggested that the $10 billion figure that has been cited is actually a breakup fee if the acquisition were not to proceed. With such a high breakup fee relative to the planned $60 billion buyout price, SpaceX seems to be extremely bullish on Cursor's capabilities and confident that the buyout will go through at some point. Notably, another one of Musk's companies is set to report its first-quarter results after the market closes today. Some investors and analysts have speculated that Musk could move to merge Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) with SpaceX at some point following the latter company's public market debut. Beyond potentially bringing Tesla's electric-vehicle business into the fold, a merger would also combine the EV company's robotaxi and Optimus humanoid robotics businesses with SpaceX and xAI. While it's impossible to state with any certainty whether Musk will ultimately move to merge SpaceX and Tesla, he's clearly looking to build a complementary tech ecosystem across his companies. Even if a merger between Tesla and SpaceX never comes to fruition, the two companies will likely wind up doing significant amounts of business with each other in the future -- and Cursor's technologies could wind up seeing wide-ranging integrations. Ever feel like you missed the boat in buying the most successful stocks? Then you'll want to hear this. On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a "Double Down" stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you're worried you've already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it's too late. And the numbers speak for themselves: Right now, we're issuing "Double Down" alerts for three incredible companies, available when you join Stock Advisor, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon.
How SpaceX preempted a $2B fundraise with a $60B buyout offer | TechCrunch
Until a few hours before SpaceX announced its deal, giving it the option to acquire Cursor -- the maker of AI-powered coding software -- for $60 billion, Cursor was on track to close a $2 billion funding round later this week, according to a person familiar with the matter. The round would have valued the company at $50 billion. SpaceX said it would either buy the company at some point later this year or pay $10 billion to Cursor to collaborate on AI development. Cursor was apparently running a parallel process, negotiating a potential acquisition by SpaceX while simultaneously finalizing a private funding round with investors that include Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive, Nvidia, and Battery Ventures, details of which were first reported by TechCrunch last week. It is not uncommon for startups to engage in acquisition discussions while simultaneously raising new capital. While many private companies prefer to remain independent, Cursor's $2 billion raise would have fallen short of the capital needed to reach cash-flow breakeven, likely forcing the company to raise substantial funding later, the person said. SpaceX, which recently merged with xAI, has been aiming to beef up its AI capabilities to better compete with leaders like Anthropic and OpenAI. Acquiring Cursor gives Elon Musk's company a better chance of challenging rivals in AI coding, currently the most lucrative application of the technology. However, SpaceX is delaying the potential acquisition of Cursor until after its IPO this summer. This is largely because the company wants to avoid updating its confidential financial filings before the listing, and it will be easier to finance the $60 billion purchase using its new, publicly traded stock. The deal appears to benefit both sides for several reasons. Despite fast revenue growth, Cursor is facing fierce competition from Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. Given that threat, the startup could face challenges in continuing to raise private capital to finance its massive computing needs. Even if SpaceX doesn't go through with the acquisition, Cursor is receiving a $10 billion capital injection paid out over time from Elon Musk's company. Additionally, if SpaceX goes through with the acquisition, the space giant will likely keep the entire Cursor team intact. Unlike Google's purchase of Windsurf, which was structured as an acqui-hire of key individuals, SpaceX currently lacks a meaningful AI workforce and is widely seen as not having a significant AI business. Meanwhile, SpaceX has access to vast computing capacity at its data centers in Mississippi and Tennessee, which it can offer Cursor, potentially in lieu of part of the $10 billion "collaboration" payment promised the coding startup. The company would also like public investors to value it as more than just a space and satellite business. By promising to potentially acquire Cursor, SpaceX positions itself as an AI company, giving it a chance to garner the much higher valuation multiple that Wall Street currently assigns to AI companies.
You're Not Watching MCPs. Anthropic's Vulnerability Shows Why You Should Be.
The post You're Not Watching MCPs. Anthropic's Vulnerability Shows Why You Should Be. appeared first on Salt Security blog. Last week, researchers at OX Security published findings that should stop every security leader in their tracks. They discovered a critical vulnerability baked directly into Anthropic's Model Context Protocol SDK, affecting every supported language: Python, TypeScript, Java, and Rust. The result: remote code execution on any system running a vulnerable MCP implementation, with direct access to sensitive user data, internal databases, API keys, and chat histories. Over 7,000 publicly accessible servers. More than 150 million downloads. Ten CVEs spanning LiteLLM, LangChain, LangFlow, Flowise, and others. This isn't a single bug someone forgot to patch. This is a design decision that propagated silently into every downstream library and every project that trusted the protocol. Anthropic reviewed the findings and called the behavior "expected." Let that sink in and picture this: A developer at your company stands up a LangChain-based agent and connects it to an internal MCP server that has access to your customer database. The agent is working as designed: answering queries, pulling records, doing its job. Now an attacker sends a carefully crafted prompt through your public-facing interface. That prompt manipulates the MCP configuration through what researchers call a zero-click prompt injection, silently redirecting the STDIO interface to execute an arbitrary OS command on the server. In seconds, the attacker has your database credentials, your internal API keys, and a live shell on the machine running your agentic workflow. No authentication required. No alerts fired. Your SIEM never saw it because the action happened at the MCP layer, which nobody was watching. We've been saying for months that MCP servers are the most dangerous unmonitored layer in your agentic infrastructure. This proves it. When most people think about AI security, they think about the LLM itself. Prompt injection. Jailbreaks. Model safety. Those are real concerns, but they're not where your biggest exposure lives in a production agentic environment. Your agents don't just think. They act. They use MCP servers to connect to your internal systems, databases, APIs, and SaaS applications. MCP is the hands of your agentic infrastructure. And right now, for most organizations, those hands are completely invisible to your security team. One architectural decision, made once, opens up remote code execution across your entire agentic stack. Not because someone wrote bad code. Because the protocol itself was never designed with security as a first principle. A few of the affected vendors have issued patches. Most haven't. Anthropic has declined to change the underlying architecture. That means every developer who inherits MCP code inherits the risk, whether they know it or not. This is the pattern we've seen play out in API security for years. The vulnerability isn't in one place. It's structural. It lives in the trust relationships between components, in the defaults that no one questions, in the interfaces that no one monitors. The only way to address it is with visibility across the entire attack surface, not just point fixes on individual CVEs. If your organization is deploying AI agents, you need answers to three questions today: At Salt, we built the Agentic Security Graph specifically to answer these questions. It's the only framework that gives security teams full visibility and control across all three layers of agentic infrastructure: the LLM, the MCP servers, and the APIs they call. Not because we predicted this exact vulnerability, but because we understood the structural problem from the start. The MCP attack surface is not theoretical anymore. It's in your environment right now, and it's actively being researched by threat actors who read the same Hacker News articles your developers do.
Cursor's 25-year-old CEO is a former Google intern who just inked a $60 billion deal with SpaceX | Fortune
Cursor's 25-year-old CEO Michael Truell helped take the AI coding company from a college passion project to a potential $60 billion acquisition by Elon Musk's SpaceX. On Tuesday, SpaceX announced in a post on X that Cursor gave SpaceX the right to acquire the company later this year for $60 billion. If SpaceX doesn't buy Cursor, it will pay $10 billion for their work together, the company said. Either way, it's a big win for Truell, who just a few years after dropping out of MIT is worth an estimated $1.3 billion, according to Forbes. His and Cursor's rapid rise is among Silicon Valley's biggest success stories. Truell grew up in New York City and attended the Horace Mann School, a private prep school in the Bronx. He'd always had an interest in technology, and started coding at age 11 to make his own mobile games, he told Fortune's Allie Garfinkle. By age 18, Truell had just wrapped up his first year at MIT and was completing a summer internship at Google. During this time, he worked on "language models for feed ranking," according to his profile on LinkedIn. Truell met Ali Partovi, an early investor in Facebook and Airbnb, during his internship, as Partovi was recruiting for his Neo Scholars program, an accelerator for young tech talent. Truell immediately impressed him by completing a written coding test "in record time," Forbes reported. After he left that meeting, Partovi put a star with a circle next to his name on a list of potential Neo Scholar candidates, meaning "he was so impressed that he'd invest in any project Truell pursued," according to Forbes. Truell later became a Neo Scholar, one of only 30 selected each year. When he started Cursor, Partovi became one of the company's first investors. Truell and his MIT classmates Aman Sanger, Sualeh Asif, and Arvid Lunnemark were interested in AI before OpenAI changed the industry by launching ChatGPT in 2022. A year before that, the Cursor cofounders were thinking about what they should do in AI, Truell said in an interview at Y Combinator's AI Startup School in San Francisco last June. "In 2021 we were trying to figure out what we do with that interest," he said. "Do we go and work on AI in academia? Or, you know, do we go join, you know, a big existing AI effort? Or do we start our own thing?" By 2022, they had their answer. Truell and his cofounders were obsessed with Microsoft's GitHub Copilot, which launched for individual developers in 2022. But the program had its limits, they found, and could be improved. At first, the cofounders focused on what Truell described as a "copilot for mechanical engineers" partly because he said it would be a niche space that was "sleepy and uncompetitive," he said during the interview with Y Combinator. Two of Truell's cofounders were also working on a message encryption project at the same time. It wasn't until about six months later the team pivoted into AI coding, which Truell said at first they had avoided "because we thought it was too competitive." But the team was desperate after their first couple of ideas failed to get off the ground, he said. Plus, "we realized we were really inherently excited about the future of coding," he said during the Y Combinator interview. That passion propelled Truell and his cofounders to one of the fastest upward trajectories in the history of Silicon Valley startups. The company's valuation has skyrocketed almost as fast as AI's capabilities have improved. Cursor raised an initial $60 million funding round in June 2024. By the end of 2025, it had raised three more funding rounds that brought in $3.3 billion, skyrocketing its valuation from $2.5 billion to $30 billion in a single year. The company has grown even faster than some big tech names with similar rapid rises. Slack took two-and-a-half years to reach $100 million in annualized revenue, while Dropbox took four years to cross the same mark. Cursor hit the $100 million annualized revenue milestone in January 2025, around one year and eight months after it launched its first product in early 2023. Its annualized revenue crossed $2 billion in February, according to Fortune. Cursor is a coding assistant with its own Integrated Development Environment, or IDE, where the company's AI is built-in. At its most basic level, Cursor's AI capabilities let users code more quickly by constantly working to predict the code a user is likely to write next. With the launch of Cursor 3 earlier this month, the company has improved on its agentic coding, in which AI can write code on its own with broad user guidance -- a move to compete with Anthropic's Claude Code, which launched just over a year ago but already has gained popularity with programmers. Cursor has more than 300 employees, and 67% of Fortune 500 companies use the company's technology, Fortune reported. Some well-known companies that use Cursor include Salesforce, Samsung, and Budweiser, according to the company's website. Before the SpaceX announcement Tuesday, the company was in talks to raise another round at a $50 billion valuation TechCrunch reported. Now, it may be acquired for $10 billion more than that. For context, the company was in talks to raise funding at nearly a $10 billion valuation a year ago, according to Bloomberg. Ultimately, what may have made Cursor a success where the founders' other projects failed was a simple decision: to go all in. "We had a ton of conviction about that and we had a ton of excitement about that and so at some point we just decided to go for it," Truell said.
Anthropic's Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users (Bloomberg, 4/21)
A small group of unauthorized users have accessed Anthropic PBC's new Mythos AI model, a technology that the company says is so powerful it can enable dangerous cyberattacks, according to a person familiar with the matter and documentation viewed by Bloomberg News. A handful of users in a private online forum gained access to Mythos on the same day that Anthropic first announced a plan to release the model to a limited number of companies for testing purposes, said the person, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisal. The group has been using Mythos regularly since then, though not for cybersecurity purposes, said the person, who corroborated the account with screenshots and a live demonstration of the model. Anthropic has said Mythos is capable of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities "in every major operating system and every major web browser when directed by a user to do so." As a result, the company has taken pains to ensure that the technology is only available to a select batch of software providers through an initiative called Project Glasswing, with the goal of allowing those firms to test and safeguard their own systems from potential cyberattacks. The unauthorized access, which has not previously been reported, highlights the challenge Anthropic faces in fully preventing its most powerful -- and potentially dangerous -- technology from spreading beyond approved partners. It also raises questions about whether anyone else may be using Mythos without permission, and for what purpose. -snip-
Musk Makes $60 Billion Gamble After xAI Slips Behind in Coding
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has spent months trying to convince businesses to use its Grok chatbot for speeding up the process of coding. But Musk's own employees have sometimes been reluctant to do the same. Some SpaceX engineers have been slow to adopt Grok for technical work because it's not as effective as rival tools, according to people familiar with the matter. Within its xAI division, certain staffers have been using other AI alternatives such as Anthropic PBC's Claude for coding instead of Grok, said some of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. AI coding tools, which streamline the process of writing and debugging code, have become a key revenue driver for xAI's competitors. Musk's staff's hesitation to use Grok indicates its long road to building credibility for its offering in the market -- and an even longer road to being a top player. Those challenges have pushed Musk make what could be one of his biggest gambles yet to catch up. On Tuesday, Musk's rocket company SpaceX - which merged with xAI earlier this year - said it has an agreement giving it the right to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion for the companies' work together. The costly tie-up is aimed at developing "the world's best coding and knowledge work AI," SpaceX said. xAI, meanwhile, has developed an advanced - if often controversial - chatbot powered by data from the Musk-owned social network, X. Grok has yet to prove its coding muscle, however, and the stakes are high for that to change soon. The company's staff has been asked to show they can meaningfully bolster revenue, which until mid-2025 came largely from Musk's other businesses, ahead of SpaceX's expected public offering in June. In the meantime, the xAI team has been trying to sell Wall Street giants and US government agencies on Grok as a useful product for conducting internal business and delivering performance reviews based on scraping company data, people familiar with the matter said. But that pitch has been hampered by concerns that the chatbot is not as adept at coding and financial modeling, some of the people said. In finance, most Wall Street banks and asset managers either use their own proprietary AI models or tools from firms like Anthropic, making it that much harder to get them to switch licenses. Government agencies are using a variety of AI models, including Grok, after xAI secured a partnership with the General Services Administration. A spokesperson for the US Department of Agriculture said it is adopting Grok as one of its AI tools. xAI did not respond to a request for comment. In the universe of Musk businesses, xAI's chatbot is being used for purposes beyond coding. SpaceX's Starlink, for example, has incorporated Grok for customer service across its platform and Tesla is using the technology in its electric vehicles. SpaceX also has its own version of Grok called Spok. But adoption in specialized areas has been slow. Some of the top lieutenants at xAI have asked staffers to ramp up their efforts to produce Claude-like products that can handle coding as well as producing slides and spreadsheets, the people said. Musk himself has acknowledged that xAI is "behind" on coding and vowed to overhaul the company to be more competitive after a wave of layoffs and departures, including nearly all of its founding team. "xAI was not built right the first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up," Musk said in a post on his X social media platform in March. The company has embarked on a hiring spree for talent on its engineering and training teams to help turn the xAI around, including nabbing two senior employees from Cursor last month. It also brought in Michael Nicolls, a top executive at SpaceX's Starlink, as xAI's president. Still, the drumbeat of firings and hirings at xAI have left insiders confused, some of the people said, with some noting that directions for coding and other projects change constantly. While Cursor has become one of the fastest-growing startups of all time and a central player in tech's "vibe coding" era, it too faces stiff competition. The company offers its own proprietary model, as well as others, in an effort to not be overly reliant on technology from any single model maker.
Look to the Sky: SpaceX launch planned for Wednesday
PHOENIX (AZFamily) -- Don't forget to look out to the night sky Wednesday night for a SpaceX launch likely visible from Arizona. The private space exploration company is planning to launch 25 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit around 8 p.m. The launch will take place from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California. The glowing path of many SpaceX launches are visible from Arizona by looking toward the southeast. SpaceX says it will begin a livestream of this mission around 5 minutes to liftoff. You can watch that through the company's X account. There is a chance that some Southern California residents in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties may hear sonic booms during the launch, SpaceX says. The mission is dependent on factors like weather and wind, and the timing may change if warranted by the conditions.
Iran attacks, detains ships as chaos erupts
The US has extended, with no definite end date, its ceasefire against Iran with the hope talks can resume at some point. But certainly the tension isn't dropping in the Strait of Hormuz. On Wednesday, local time, it was reported Iran had seized two ships in the Persian Gulf. Tehran said they were "operating without authorisation" and attempting to exit the strait "in secret" while allegedly tampering with navigation systems. In recent days, the US has seized several Iranian ships which it has claimed are breaking its blockade. Iran has said that the blockade has to end before negotiations can begin once more. Read on for more updates.
Sam Altman says Anthropic's using fear-based marketing to promote Mythos
Fear sells? OpenAI CEO calls out Anthropic's approach for advertising its new model. Claude Mythos is the latest buzzword in the AI industry. For those who don't know, Mythos is a new AI model by Anthropic that is claimed to be so powerful it can bypass sophisticated cybersecurity measures used by organizations and outperform humans in this field. Such a tool could, in theory, help hackers identify and exploit vulnerabilities faster and more efficiently. Following Anthropic's claims about its latest achievements, governments and organizations around the world have raised alarms. However, at least one person remains unconvinced by Anthropic's claims about Mythos: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In a recent appearance on the Core Memory podcast, Altman accused Anthropic of using fear-based marketing to promote Claude Mythos. The OpenAI CEO also suggested that the hype around Claude Mythos is a way to keep advanced AI under control and in the hands of a select group of people. Anthropic has not yet released Claude Mythos to the public; instead, it has granted access to a limited group of enterprise customers. Some of the early testers reportedly include Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Nvidia, and JPMorgan Chase. "There are people in the world who, for a long time, have wanted to keep AI in the hands of a smaller group of people," Altman said. "You could justify that in a lot of different ways, and some of it's real -- like there are going to be legitimate safety concerns. But if what you want is like, "We need control of AI, just us, because we're the trustworthy people, I think fear-based marketing is probably the most effective way to justify that." Altman also criticized the current situation, saying it's like building a bomb and then selling a shelter for a hefty price. "It is clearly incredible marketing to say, 'We have built a bomb. We were about to drop it on your head. We will sell you a bomb shelter for $100 million to run across all your stuff, but only if we pick you as a customer," Altman added. Anthropic previously claimed that Mythos Preview has been able to discover "thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web browser." Claude Mythos is currently available only to a small group of enterprise customers, and there is still no independent way to verify Anthropic's claims regarding the system's capabilities.
Before the IPO: SpaceX Just Set Up a $60 Billion Deal to Buy This Artificial Intelligence (AI) Company
SpaceX said recently that it had signed an agreement that would allow it to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Alternatively, the deal also leaves the door open for SpaceX to instead pay the AI coding specialist $10 billion for their work together. With SpaceX seemingly set to make IPO history in the next few months, what does the company's deal with Cursor mean for potential investors? Will AI create the world's first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly" providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue " Image source: Getty Images. In a post on X announcing the Cursor deal, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that the two companies are working to "create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI." While SpaceX is best known for its rocket-launching and Starlink internet services, the company is also making artificial intelligence a big part of its growth strategy. Earlier this year, Musk moved to merge his xAI company with SpaceX. Cursor's core product is Composer -- an AI software coding tool that helps developers test their code with documentation. SpaceX's move to either acquire the company at a $60 billion valuation or pay $10 billion for its services represents a big vote of confidence in the coding specialist's tech and an important development in Musk's company's approach to the AI race. While xAI has solid footing in many aspects of the artificial-intelligence competition, it's still behind Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex in some key respects. Through the partnership with Cursor, Musk is aiming to strengthen SpaceX's competitive positioning in a crucial AI battlefield. Along with providing useful tools to software developers, the focus on building out AI coding technologies has the potential to support systems capable of self-improvement and deliver disruptive advantages. According to sources cited by Bloomberg, it's seemingly more likely that SpaceX will wind up purchasing Cursor outright than paying $10 billion for its services. Because Musk's space company is on the verge of carrying out its IPO, it would need to resubmit key informational filings related to its public debut -- a move that could potentially result in the delay of its initial public offering. Those sources suggested that the $10 billion figure that has been cited is actually a breakup fee if the acquisition were not to proceed. With such a high breakup fee relative to the planned $60 billion buyout price, SpaceX seems to be extremely bullish on Cursor's capabilities and confident that the buyout will go through at some point. Notably, another one of Musk's companies is set to report its first-quarter results after the market closes today. Some investors and analysts have speculated that Musk could move to merge Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) with SpaceX at some point following the latter company's public market debut. Beyond potentially bringing Tesla's electric-vehicle business into the fold, a merger would also combine the EV company's robotaxi and Optimus humanoid robotics businesses with SpaceX and xAI. While it's impossible to state with any certainty whether Musk will ultimately move to merge SpaceX and Tesla, he's clearly looking to build a complementary tech ecosystem across his companies. Even if a merger between Tesla and SpaceX never comes to fruition, the two companies will likely wind up doing significant amounts of business with each other in the future -- and Cursor's technologies could wind up seeing wide-ranging integrations. Ever feel like you missed the boat in buying the most successful stocks? Then you'll want to hear this. On rare occasions, our expert team of analysts issues a "Double Down" stock recommendation for companies that they think are about to pop. If you're worried you've already missed your chance to invest, now is the best time to buy before it's too late. And the numbers speak for themselves: Right now, we're issuing "Double Down" alerts for three incredible companies, available when you join Stock Advisor, and there may not be another chance like this anytime soon. Keith Noonan has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Tesla. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
Meet Aman Sanger, Indian-origin co-founder of AI startup Cursor that SpaceX is set to acquire for $60 billion
Aman Sanger is emerging as one of the key Indian-origin figures in the global artificial intelligence boom. A co-founder of Cursor, he is part of the team behind one of the fastest-growing AI coding platforms in the world. Recently, SpaceX confirmed it had secured an option to acquire Cursor for around $60 billion, or alternatively, enter a $10 billion partnership. The development has brought renewed attention to its founders, including Sanger, whose journey reflects both global ambition and strong Indian roots.Aman Sanger is an Indian-origin entrepreneur and one of the four co-founders behind Cursor, alongside Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, and Arvid Lunnemark. The team met while studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they began exploring how artificial intelligence could transform the way software is written.Sanger grew up in the United States in a family with strong Indian roots. According to reports, his father, Arvind Sanger, is an alumnus of IIT Bombay and a hedge fund professional, while his mother, Shilpa Sanger, is an orthodontist and entrepreneur. This background helped shape his early interest in technology. He began coding at a young age and later studied computer science at MIT, where he co-founded Anysphere in 2022.He has played a key operational and strategic role in scaling Cursor from an early-stage startup into one of the fastest-growing AI developer platforms globally, despite maintaining a relatively low public profile.Cursor is an AI-powered coding platform designed to help developers write, edit, and understand code more efficiently. Unlike traditional tools focused on autocomplete, it functions as an intelligent collaborator that can analyse entire codebases and generate complex solutions.The platform has gained traction among developers and enterprises, positioning itself within a rapidly expanding category of AI coding tools. Its ability to reduce development time and improve productivity has made it a prominent player in the AI ecosystem.In 2026, SpaceX secured an agreement that includes an option to acquire Cursor for approximately $60 billion later in the year. Alternatively, the companies could pursue a $10 billion partnership focused on AI collaboration.This is not a completed acquisition. The arrangement allows both sides to work together while keeping the final decision open. If finalised, the deal would rank among the largest in the AI sector.The interest reflects a broader push by SpaceX into artificial intelligence. Advanced AI coding tools could accelerate software development across its operations, including rockets, satellites, and simulation systems. Integration with Musk's wider AI ambitions could also position Cursor within a larger ecosystem competing with major AI players.Since its founding, Cursor has grown rapidly, attracting widespread adoption among developers and enterprises. Its rise highlights a broader shift in the technology industry, where AI is becoming central to software development.The company's journey from a student project at MIT to a startup potentially valued in tens of billions reflects the speed at which AI-driven innovation is reshaping the global tech landscape.The potential $60 billion deal signals a deeper transformation in how software is built. AI is moving from a support tool to a core part of the coding process.For Aman Sanger, this marks a significant milestone. From his early exposure to technology in an Indian-origin family to co-founding a leading AI startup, he now stands at the centre of one of the most closely watched developments in the tech world. Whether or not the acquisition goes through, Cursor's rise and Sanger's role in it reflect the growing influence of artificial intelligence on the future of work.
Report: Discord Group Uses Claude's Supposedly Secret Mythos
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , The Future of AI & Cybersecurity An unauthorized group of users gained access to Claude Mythos Preview artificial intelligence model and have regularly used it since the day that AI firm Anthropic revealed the model's existence while pronouncing it too dangerous to release to the public, reports Bloomberg. See Also: Context Drives Security in Agentic AI Era Anthropic made a splash when earlier this month it said it would reserve access to a select group of companies joined together under "Project Glasswing," with the understanding that they would use the model to find and fix security vulnerabilities before hackers get access to equally powerful tech. Members include Nvidia, Apple, Amazon and Cisco (see: Anthropic Calls Its New Model Too Dangerous to Release). A source told Bloomberg the unauthorized users belong to a private Discord channel dedicated to unreleased models. An apparent member of the group told the newswire that users have not used Mythos to hunt for new exploits. Anthropic has touted the vulnerability finding properties of Mythos in a publicity campaign that has received some outside validation, as from the AI Security Institute in Great Britain, which found the model to be "a step up over previous frontier models." The source told Bloomberg the Discord group deployed a mix of tactics to access Mythos, including using access the source has as a third-party contractor for Anthropic. The group "made an educated guess about the model's online location based on knowledge about the format Anthropic has used for other models." The person said such data was leaked in a recent breach at AI startup Mercor (see: Mercor Breach Linked to LiteLLM Supply-Chain Attack). An Anthropic spokesperson told the newswire that it is investigating the matter but that it has no evidence of unauthorized Mythos use beyond the third party's IT environment. The source told Bloomberg the Discord group also has access to other unreleased Anthropic models. Anthropic's release of Mythos to select partners received a rejoinder from rival firm OpenAI, which days later released GPT‑5.4‑Cyber with the stated intention of making it "as widely available as possible." OpenAI said it will rely on user identity verification and "trust signals" to safeguard its vulnerability-seeking AI model from being put to bad uses (see: OpenAI Touts Wider Access to Its New Cyber Model).
SpaceX Launches Final GPS III Satellite
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket deployed the final Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite on Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for the U.S. Space Force. Top leaders from the U.S. Space and Air Forces will examine how advanced technologies and strategies are shaping responses to evolving air and space challenges at the Potomac Officers Club's 2026 Air and Space Summit on July 30. Register now! Space Systems Command announced the milestone on the same day, noting that Space Vehicle-10 brings the operational GPS constellation to 32 satellites. SSC claimed that SV-10 completed the Space Force's most resilient GPS architecture to date, advancing positioning, navigation and timing capabilities for military and civilian users. The launch demonstrated the National Security Space Launch program's ability to adjust schedules quickly, with the Space Force executing a provider change and revised launch timeline in under seven weeks. USSF Col. Ryan Hiserote, SSC System Delta 80 commander, NSSL program manager and GPS III-8 mission director described the move as a "remarkable achievement compared to traditional timelines." SV-10 reportedly provides three times greater accuracy and improved resistance to jamming compared to earlier systems. It features secure M-code capability designed for military users operating in contested environments and carries several demonstration technologies, including an optical crosslink payload that enables satellites to communicate directly in orbit, a new atomic clock for improved timing precision, a laser retroreflector array supporting scientific measurement and system performance, and a 3D-printed antenna component intended to reduce production time and cost. The demonstration technologies will inform the development of the next-generation GPS IIIF satellites, which are expected to further strengthen anti-jamming capabilities and introduce new features, such as Regional Military Protection to improve signal availability for military users in high-threat environments, a search-and-rescue payload and fully digital navigation technology. Lockheed said the IIIF variant is being manufactured at its Denver, Colorado, facility. The company, under contract to deliver 12 IIIF units, is using augmented reality, digital twins and other emerging technologies to accelerate production timelines.
Mozilla Fixes 271 Firefox Bugs Using Anthropic's Mythos AI - IT Security News
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You're Not Watching MCPs. Anthropic's Vulnerability Shows Why You Should Be. - IT Security News
Last week, researchers at OX Security published findings that should stop every security leader in their tracks. They discovered a critical vulnerability baked directly into Anthropic's Model Context Protocol SDK, affecting every supported language: Python, TypeScript, Java, and Rust. The result: remote code execution on any system running a vulnerable MCP implementation, with direct access to sensitive user data, internal databases, API keys, and chat histories. Over 7,000 publicly accessible servers. More than 150 million downloads. Ten CVEs spanning LiteLLM, LangChain, LangFlow, Flowise, and others. This isn't a single bug someone forgot to patch. This is a design decision that propagated silently into every downstream library and every project that trusted the protocol. Anthropic reviewed the findings and called the behavior "expected." Let that sink in and picture this: A developer at your company stands up a LangChain-based agent and connects it to an internal MCP server that has access to your customer database. The agent is working as designed: answering queries, pulling records, doing its job. Now an attacker sends a carefully crafted prompt through your public-facing interface. That prompt manipulates the MCP configuration through what researchers call a zero-click prompt injection, silently redirecting the STDIO interface to execute an arbitrary OS command on the server. In seconds, the attacker has your database credentials, your internal API keys, and a live shell on the machine running your agentic workflow. No authentication required. No alerts fired. Your SIEM never saw it because the action happened at the MCP layer, which nobody was watching. We've been saying for months that MCP servers are the most dangerous unmonitored layer in your agentic infrastructure. This proves it. When most people think about AI security, they think about the LLM itself. Prompt injection. Jailbreaks. Model safety. Those are real concerns, but they're not where your biggest exposure lives in a production agentic environment. Your agents don't just think. They act. They use MCP servers to connect to your internal systems, databases, APIs, and SaaS applications. MCP is the hands of your agentic infrastructure. And right now, for most organizations, those hands are completely invisible to your security team. One architectural decision, made once, opens up remote code execution across your entire agentic stack. Not because someone wrote bad code. Because the protocol itself was never designed with security as a first principle. A few of the affected vendors have issued patches. Most haven't. Anthropic has declined to change the underlying architecture. That means every developer who inherits MCP code inherits the risk, whether they know it or not. This is the pattern we've seen play out in API security for years. The vulnerability isn't in one place. It's structural. It lives in the trust relationships between components, in the defaults that no one questions, in the interfaces that no one monitors. The only way to address it is with visibility across the entire attack surface, not just point fixes on individual CVEs. If your organization is deploying AI agents, you need answers to three questions today: At Salt, we built the Agentic Security Graph specifically to answer these questions. It's the only framework that gives security teams full visibility and control across all three layers of agentic infrastructure: the LLM, the MCP servers, and the APIs they call. Not because we predicted this exact vulnerability, but because we understood the structural problem from the start. The MCP attack surface is not theoretical anymore. [...] Content was cut in order to protect the source.Please visit the source for the rest of the article.
mRNA Uses Unconventional Pathways in CD8+T Cell Priming to Help Vaccines Work
mRNA vaccines scored a stunning win against SARS-CoV-2 in 2020, and now the Nobel-prize-winning technology is out to conquer some cancers. Several mRNA vaccines are already in clinical trials for melanoma, small cell lung cancer, and bladder cancer, among others. Recently, a pancreatic cancer vaccine grabbed headlines after researchers shared that most Phase I trial participants were still alive after several years -- unprecedented in a disease that is considered incurable, and usually kills patients quickly. But how exactly does mRNA work? A new study suggests a broader role for how T cells become activated after an mRNA vaccine. It's a process that engages both cDC1 and cDC2 cells redundantly. The study was led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WashU) and could lead to improvements in mRNA vaccine design. The findings were published in Nature. The work was powered by a novel mouse model developed by the WashU team. "My lab made them in 2019 and 2022. We put all of them in Jackson labs [database] so anyone can get them, no strings, and study them," senior author Kenneth M. Murphy, MD, PhD, told Inside Precision Medicine. "Thanks to them, we saw the question and were able to address it most quickly." Until now, scientists assumed that cDC1, which is a classical type 1 dendritic cell, was required for mRNA vaccination to activate the immune system. But, in a lab study, these researchers found that even without cDC1 cells, the mRNA vaccine still triggers strong cancer‑killing responses. That's because they determined that cDC2, a cousin to cDC1, can also stimulate anti-tumor immune activity -- an unexpected finding given that this related subtype is not involved in responses to other vaccines. "There is a lot of interest in applying the mRNA vaccine approaches used during the COVID-19 pandemic to the problem of inducing anti-tumor immunity," said Murphy, the Eugene Opie Centennial Professor in the department of pathology & immunology at WashU Medicine. "By dissecting which immune cells are involved and how they coordinate the response, we're offering vaccine developers some additional mechanistic insights to consider in their goal of optimizing these vaccines against tumor proteins." Murphy is also a research member at Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WashU Medicine. mRNA vaccines work by delivering instructions, in the form of messenger RNA, for immune cells to produce bits of protein that trigger the immune system to destroy cells bearing these proteins. Dendritic cells produce the protein bits from the mRNA instructions, and T cells then find and destroy the invading proteins. To treat cancer, mRNA vaccines can be designed to generate protein bits unique to a tumor. The work was done in collaboration with the study's co-corresponding author, William E. Gillanders, MD, the Mary Culver Professor of Surgery at WashU Medicine. Gillanders, a physician-scientist and surgical oncologist who has also developed an investigational vaccine against triple-negative breast cancer, treats patients at Siteman Cancer Center. Murphy and members of his lab used their mouse models, which lacked cDC1 or cDC2, to tease out the role that different groups of dendritic cells play in priming T cells after mRNA cancer vaccination. One of their findings was that mice immunized with an mRNA vaccine generated strong T-cell responses even in the absence of cDC1s. In addition, they found that immunized mice without cDC1s were able to clear sarcoma tumors -- cancers that develop in connective tissues such as fat, muscle, nerves, blood vessels, bone, and cartilage. This indicated that some other cell type must be stimulating the T-cell response. Indeed, their study found that cDC2s also participate in generating an immune response from T cells and preventing tumor growth. Further, the study found that T cells turned on by cDC1s and cDC2s each showed slightly different molecular "fingerprints." These differences could help scientists design better versions of vaccines in the future. Similarly, immunized mice lacking cDC2s and mice that had both cell subtypes produced an immune response and rejected tumor growth, demonstrating that mRNA vaccination uses both dendritic cell subtypes to stop cancer. "This work uncovers a new way mRNA vaccines engage the immune system -- through both cDC1 and cDC2 -- which helps explain their power and gives researchers concrete targets for making future mRNA cancer vaccines more effective," said Gillanders. "It could improve vaccine formulation and dosing, potentially explain why some patients respond better to vaccines than others, and guide strategies for making vaccines more effective."
Mozilla Fixes 271 Firefox Bugs Using Anthropic's Mythos AI
Mozilla says Firefox 150 patches 271 vulnerabilities found with Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI, highlighting how quickly AI-driven bug hunting is accelerating. Mozilla announced Tuesday that this week's release of Firefox 150 ships with patches for 271 security vulnerabilities uncovered using early access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, a powerful AI model the company has so far kept out of public hands. Firefox Chief Technology Officer Bobby Holley, writing on the Mozilla blog, said, "Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively." Anthropic's Mythos Preview isn't available to the general public. Although the company has released it to a small circle of technology partners through a program called Project Glasswing, which includes the likes of Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, all tasked with scanning their own software for weaknesses before the model reaches broader audiences. Mozilla's access came through a direct collaboration with Anthropic, separate from the formal Project Glasswing consortium, Holley confirmed to WIRED. What makes Mythos notable isn't just that it finds bugs; it's how it finds them. Traditional automated security tools like "fuzzers" essentially throw random bad data at software and watch what breaks. Effective, but uneven. Some parts of a codebase are harder to fuzz than others, leaving blind spots that only a human expert could reliably uncover. Mythos, according to Mozilla, doesn't have those blind spots. "Elite security researchers find bugs that fuzzers can't largely by reasoning through the source code," Holley wrote on the Mozilla blog. "Computers were completely incapable of doing this a few months ago, and now they excel at it. We have many years of experience picking apart the work of the world's best security researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable." Shock then relief Inside Mozilla, the initial wave of findings didn't feel like a victory. It felt like a gut punch. "For a hardened target, just one such bug would have been red alert in 2025, and so many at once makes you stop to wonder whether it's even possible to keep up," Holley noted. The team pushed through it. Holley told WIRED the Firefox organization had to essentially reprioritize everything to focus on the deluge of findings, a warning he says other software teams should take seriously. "I've talked to engineering leaders at very large companies who are saying that they're going to be pulling thousands of engineers off of everything to be working on this for the next six months," Holley told WIRED. The reassuring part, he says, is that there appears to be a finish line. Mythos didn't surface any entirely new category of vulnerability, nothing that a sufficiently skilled human researcher couldn't also have found in theory. Holley sees this as evidence that the problem is large but bounded. "The defects are finite, and we are entering a world where we can finally find them all," he wrote.
SpaceX Will Buy Cursor | NextBigFuture.com
Cursor is already at ~$2 Billion ARR (annual recurring revenue as of February 2026) and was on track to triple to over $6 billion ARR by the end of 2026 even before the xAI deal. The brand-new partnership with xAI/SpaceX gives them massive Colossus supercomputer access, which removes their biggest remaining bottleneck and should let them scale faster than their already insane trajectory while pushing them toward profitability this year or early 2027. Superior models from XAI and Cursor (Composer 3) could drive even faster growth. They could get to $10B+ ARR by year-end. The product becomes materially better than competitors, pulling in more seats and new logos at warp speed. They have more revenue than XAI does (not including X or SpaceX) and it is revenue in the AI market that is most important right now. SpaceX-XAI will buy them even if the LLM part of the coding were inferior to Grok Code. They need the superior market access, revenue, revenue growth, share of the developer market and the coding data. Delaying the purchase is just so the financials look better for the IPO and to move the mechanics of the acquisition after the IPO.
Poll blues: Bus crisis, steep cab fare spark chaos in Hills
Darjeeling: With fears over deletions of nearly 40,000 Gorkha voters during the SIR process driving people to return home at any cost, the road to the Hills turned chaotic at Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus on the eve of the phase 1 polls. A crippling bus shortage, soaring fares and swelling crowds combined to trigger tension, vandalism and the deployment of central forces.What should have been a routine 80-km journey from Siliguri to Darjeeling became a race against time for thousands of anxious voters. Many, driven by uncertainty over their names on the electoral roll, rushed back from across the country to ensure they could vote -- but found themselves stranded for hours as buses disappeared from regular service.As tempers flared, sections of the crowd vandalised ticket counters and damaged computers of the North Bengal State Transport Corporation. The situation escalated rapidly, prompting the deployment of central forces and senior police officials to restore order. Though tensions eased later in the day, normal services have yet to fully resume.Officials attributed the disruption to the large-scale requisitioning of buses by EC, which has hit connectivity across North Bengal, including to Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar, Cooch Behar and Darjeeling hills. "This has led to long waiting hours," said NBSTC in-charge Samir Sarkar.Passengers claimed private vehicles began charging between Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 per seat -- far above normal. Drivers reportedly cited road closures and diversions via Mirik. "I came from another state, spending extra on airfare just to vote. Now I don't know if I'll make it home" said Utpal Mondal, one of those waiting in a long queue.Sanjeev Chettri, who travelled from Bengaluru, said, "I didn't want to miss voting, but getting a vehicle from Siliguri became a struggle. The govt should have arranged transport support."Kamlesh Rai, a resident of Ghum who works in Kolkata, said, "Many believe names have been deleted. So, out of fear, many are rushing back to vote."."But transporters defended the fare hike, citing longer routes, fuel cost and traffic curbs. .Darjeeling RTO Milton Das said: "We will send a team to verify the situation and take action. No formal complaint has been received yet."
