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SpaceX strikes $60 billion deal for the right to buy AI coding startup Cursor
SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) on Tuesday announced that it had struck a deal with AI coding tool maker Cursor, which gives SpaceX the option to purchase the startup later this year for $60 billion. "SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI," the post said. "The combination of Cursor's leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX's million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world's most useful models," the post said. "Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together." The deal is part of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's plan to transform the rocket company into an AI behemoth ahead of its upcoming IPO. Musk merged SpaceX with his xAI startup in February. The SpaceX-Cursor tie-up also shows how AI startups continue to find larger partners in order to secure the compute needed to continue improving their models. Earlier this week, for instance, Amazon (AMZN) announced a $5 billion investment in Anthropic that will give the AI startup broader access to its trainium chips. The SpaceX IPO, targeted for June, is aiming for a $1.75 billion to $1.8 trillion valuation, potentially making it the largest in history. Click here for the latest technology news that will impact the stock market
FTX Sold Cursor for $200K -- Now SpaceX Wants It for $60B
FTX is back in the headlines, not because of a token collapse or a court update, but because of a brutal what-if story tied to artificial intelligence. Bankruptcy filings previously showed that Alameda had invested just $200,000 in Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, before that stake was later sold for the same amount. Now, SpaceX says it has secured an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or instead pay $10 billion for a strategic partnership. That instantly raises the question: did FTX just miss out on billions? According to reporting on FTX bankruptcy filings, Alameda invested $200,000 in Anysphere through Clifton Bay Investments, an entity formerly known as Alameda Research. The stake was later sold in 2023 for the same $200,000, meaning the FTX estate exited the company long before the latest explosion in Cursor's value. At the time, this looked like a small and largely irrelevant venture position. Today, it looks very different. Cursor has become one of the most talked-about AI coding platforms in the market, benefiting from the broader boom in AI developer tools. Reuters reported this week that SpaceX wants deeper exposure to this sector and disclosed an option to buy Cursor for $60 billion, with the alternative of a $10 billion strategic partnership. Reuters said the move is meant to strengthen SpaceX's AI ambitions, especially around xAI's position in code automation. That is what turns an old FTX portfolio line into a huge missed-opportunity story. That number comes from a simple calculation. If Alameda's old stake had remained at around 5%, then a $60 billion valuation would imply a stake worth roughly $3 billion. That is why social media is framing this as one of the biggest missed bets linked to the FTX collapse. This is an inference based on the reported historical stake size and Reuters' reported option value. But that figure should be treated carefully. Startup stakes usually get diluted across later funding rounds unless investors continue participating. So while the headline "FTX missed $3 billion" is powerful, the real upside lost could have been materially lower depending on how much the position would have been diluted over time. Reuters did not state the exact retained ownership because FTX had already exited, and the bankruptcy filing coverage only confirms the original investment and sale amount. This is not a direct Bitcoin or Ethereum market catalyst, but it is still a strong crypto story because it captures the long shadow of the FTX collapse. The exchange's bankruptcy did not just destroy customer assets and confidence across the industry. It also forced the liquidation of positions that, in some cases, may have become extremely valuable later. The Cursor case is a reminder that distressed selling during crisis periods can lock in losses just before major upside appears elsewhere. That is an inference based on the reported sale timing and the much higher value implied by SpaceX's option today. It also feeds a broader narrative: while crypto firms were imploding, some of the venture-style bets around them were still touching major technology trends like AI. The real lesson is not just that FTX sold too early. It is that bankruptcy, forced unwinds, and bad timing can destroy optionality. Alameda's Anysphere position may have looked minor in 2023, but in 2026 it has become the kind of asset people point to when discussing how much value was lost in the chaos surrounding FTX. For crypto readers, the story works because it combines all the elements that drive attention: FTX, AI, Elon Musk, SpaceX, and a possible multi-billion-dollar missed payoff. FTX sold its Anysphere stake for just $200,000. Now SpaceX says it has an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Whether the old Alameda stake would really have been worth the full $3 billion implied by social media depends on dilution and cap table changes, so that number should be treated as a headline estimate rather than a certainty. But the bigger point remains unchanged: FTX may have exited one of the most valuable AI bets tied to its old portfolio just before the asset became a giant.
SpaceX Gains Option to Buy AI Startup Cursor for $60 Billion Ahead of Planned IPO
SpaceX said on April 21 it secured an option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year. The company also said it can choose a second route and pay $10 billion for a partnership instead of completing a full takeover. The announcement links SpaceX more directly with the fast-growing market for AI developer tools as it moves toward a public listing. SpaceX said Cursor's product and user base will combine with its Colossus training infrastructure. The company said the collaboration will focus on AI models for programming and knowledge work. Cursor said the agreement will expand access to computing capacity after training limits slowed growth.
Govt Mulls Crackdown On Polymarket, Kalshi, Other Prediction Market Apps As Election Betting Spikes
Prediction market apps such as Kalshi, Polymarket have come under the lens of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of India MeitY's scanner. Platforms such as Kalshi, Polymarket are used for betting on election outcomes, IPL and many other events, and MeitY is currently mulling action against these apps. (This is a developing story) Essential Business Intelligence, Continuous LIVE TV, Sharp Market Insights, Practical Personal Finance Advice and Latest Stories -- On NDTV Profit.
Anthropic's Claude Is Pumping Out Vulnerable Code, Cyber Experts Warn
This is the online edition of The Wiretap newsletter, your weekly digest of cybersecurity, internet privacy and surveillance news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. March, developers at Ohio-based cybersecurity company TrustedSec were regularly using Anthropic's premium Claude Opus model to speed up app development and generate attacks to test client defenses. But in recent weeks, they've stopped using it. Performance dropped so sharply in the weeks after the release of Opus 4.6 in early February that the model began introducing "serious defects and security issues," says TrustedSec CEO and former NSA analyst Dave Kennedy. "Right now, from five weeks ago to today, the code quality is over 47.3% worse than when it was first released," Kennedy tells Forbes. "It's really bad, I mean unusably bad." That figure is according to a tool he built to test Claude's quality, which tracks code quality, bugs, security issues and whether it completes a coding job from start to finish without problems. The ultimate risk, he says, is that novice developers using Claude for coding won't spot flaws, "introducing serious defects." "It's very alarming," he says. Kennedy says Opus 4.7, the latest model, was "marginally better" but still not at the quality level of 4.6 when it was released. In recent weeks, scores of once-happy Anthropic customers have flocked to Reddit and X to vent similar frustrations. It's not just programmers experiencing usability issues. An AI executive at chipmaker AMD wrote on Github that her team had seen Claude's thinking become so "shallow" that it "cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks." Analyses from coding security company Veracode have also found that Claude models are writing less secure code than competitors. Over the last year, Veracode has been testing AI systems by asking them to complete 80 coding tasks. In 52% of those, Opus 4.7 included a vulnerability in the code. That's up from 51% for Opus 4.1 and 50% for Claude Sonnet 4.5, a lower level, more cost-efficient model that doesn't use up as much compute. OpenAI's models perform notably better at around 30%. Jens Wessling, Veracode's chief innovation officer, says the data backed up user claims of model degradation. Wessling believes models are being trained to write working code, "not to consistently apply the controls that make software secure." "It reflects a real dynamic where faster, more capable models can still produce insecure output at meaningful rates," he tells Forbes. "Without changes to how that code is validated and remediated, the net effect can look like more buggy or vulnerable software, not less." Anthropic said it was actively investigating the claims of degradation in Opus and that engineers should always check for vulnerabilities. Previously, head of Claude Code Boris Cherny posted on X that the company had chosen to turn down how hard Claude thinks before editing code, down from "high" to "medium" effort, in response to complaints about token usage, referring to a unit of text or code that a model uses to process and generate language. Adding irony to injury, this month Anthropic announced it had developed a new model, Mythos, that was capable of autonomously finding security issues in commonly-used browsers and operating systems and at scale. The company limited Mythos use to 40 major organizations, from Apple to Google, so it can be used to secure widely-used products before hackers get hold of similarly powerful AI. Kennedy is so concerned about the potential for any AI giant's models regressing that he's reconsidering how his team uses AI. Now, he is building his own on-premise AI infrastructure so he can run bespoke models that he can control. "Who can we really trust here?" he asks. Got a tip on surveillance or cybercrime? Get me on Signal at +1 929-512-7964. Wired has a deep dive into the surveillance apparatus at New York's Madison Square Garden, where one trans woman was tracked for two years and protestors were snooped on by people pretending to be cops. Even Knicks players are warning about rooms being bugged, and staff fear being followed to local bars. Tinder and Zoom announced partnerships with Sam Altman's World company, which scans people's eyeballs to prove they're human and validate their identity. Palantir published a 22-point manifesto from the new book of cofounder and CEO Alex Karp, which included a call for national service. "We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost," he wrote. While Karp's business works closely with the Pentagon, Karp himself is not known to have served in the military. As part of an international police operation, the DOJ seized some of the biggest online markets offering to provide distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which flood websites and apps with traffic to take them offline. Tyler Robert Buchanan, a 24-year-old from Dundee, Scotland, pleaded guilty to his role in a hacking conspiracy to steal at least $8 million in virtual currency from U.S. companies. Investigators alleged Buchanan was part of the Scattered Spider crew, which targeted a range of retail and telecommunications companies globally. In case you missed it, Forbes published its eighth annual AI 50 list, with sponsoring partner Mayfield, that highlights the most promising privately held AI companies in the world. There's a lot of familiar names, like Anthropic, Harvey and ElevenLabs, but this year Forbes has also highlighted some exciting newcomers, including presentation builder Gamma, drug discovery startup Chai Discovery and New York-based Rogo, which is building AI for bankers and investors. We also launched our first ever AI 50 Brink list, featuring early stage companies with the potential to rival their more established peers in the future. Last year, the DOJ sued Rhode Island to acquire non-public voter databases that included sensitive information like birth dates and Social Security numbers, without any justification. Now, a U.S. district court judge granted a motion from voting rights groups and the ACLU to dismiss it. A 35-year-old former cop, Robert Jay Josett, pleaded guilty to using Flock Safety car surveillance technology, among other snooping tools, to track the whereabouts of his wife, mistress and romantic rivals. He's been ordered to serve a 52-week domestic violence program and sentenced to three years informal probation.
Polymarket, Kalshi Enter Perps Arena, Solana Sidelined in Both Sectors
Did Solana miss the boat on both perps and prediction markets? Perpetual futures trading and prediction markets have established themselves as two of crypto's most viable use cases, attracting millions of users and generating millions in daily revenue for applications like Polymarket and Hyperliquid. After witnessing meteoric growth separately, the two sectors are finally starting to merge. Between Polymarket and Kalshi announcing a fresh push into the perps scene, and Hyperliquid testing the prediction market waters with HIP-4, the stage is set for another fiercely competitive battle for users among crypto's biggest apps. Meanwhile, Solana is nowhere to be seen. Despite dominating onchain spot trading, Solana has struggled to find its feet in both prediction markets and perps trading, falling behind rivals in the leading verticals of 2026. In the last 24 hours, crypto's leading prediction markets, Polymarket and Kalshi, have both announced their expansion into perps trading. With perps trading dominating headlines throughout 2026, prediction markets are evidently eager to bring crypto's biggest markets to their user base, many of whom reportedly have limited experience or exposure to the industry. At the same time, crypto's leading perps venue, Hyperliquid, is branching out into prediction markets itself through HIP-4. The incentive for expansion is clear. Aside from stablecoin issuers, perps venues and prediction markets consistently rank as the crypto industry's most successful business models. According to DeFiLlama data, Hyperliquid and Polymarket dominate onchain revenue generation across all chains, joined by Solana's own memecoin launchpad, pump.fun. While experts and industry thought-leaders debate who comes out on top in the race to house onchain finance, Solana appears to have missed the boat on crypto's next great product. Pump.fun remains a revenue juggernaut in its own right, but its trajectory has undeniably slowed in recent months, with monthly revenue dropping considerably since the highs of Q1 2025. Comparatively, adoption of trading platforms like Hyperliquid and PolyMarket have improved considerably. Kalshi's growth is even more pronounced. According to Artemis data, Kalshi now leads PolyMarket in market activity, processing around $2.7Bin weekly volume. Three of crypto's most successful applications are all converging on the same thesis, giving users all over the world leveraged access to derivatives and event contracts. Meanwhile, Solana DeFi is yet to offer a competitive alternative, allowing rival chains to establish a clear lead in emerging sectors. While many Solana-based protocols, like Jupiter, Phantom, and DFlow, have integrated prediction markets into their applications, these are typically built on existing providers. Both Jupiter Predict and DFlow's tokenized prediction markets are powered by Kalshi, suggesting that Solana DeFi is currently lacking a competitive prediction market of its own. The same is true for perpetual futures. While the difficulties associated with operating a Solana-native perps DEX are well documented at this stage, the absence of a competitive option has meant that Solana is currently failing behind on crypto's biggest stage. DFDV makes moves in Japanese markets
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
Google Cloud Next 2026: AI agents, A2A protocol, Workspace Studio, and the full-stack bet against OpenAI and Anthropic
Summary: Google rebranded and consolidated its AI platform at Cloud Next 2026, renaming Vertex AI to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and absorbing Agentspace into a unified Gemini Enterprise product. The announcements include Workspace Studio (no-code agent builder), 200+ models in the Model Garden including Anthropic Claude, partner agents from Box, Workday, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, ADK v1.0 stable releases across four languages, Project Mariner (web-browsing agent), managed MCP servers with Apigee as an API-to-agent bridge, and A2A protocol v1.0 in production at 150 organisations. Kurian framed the strategy as owning the full stack from chip to inbox while competitors "hand you the pieces, not the platform." Google used the opening keynote of Cloud Next 2026 on Tuesday to unveil what amounts to a full rebranding and consolidation of its AI platform around agents. Vertex AI is now the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Google Agentspace, the employee-facing AI assistant, has been absorbed into a unified product called Gemini Enterprise. The announcements span a no-code agent builder for Google Workspace, a redesigned developer platform with more than 200 models including third-party options such as Anthropic's Claude, a web-browsing agent called Project Mariner, managed MCP servers across Google Cloud services, and the production-grade Agent2Agent protocol for cross-platform agent communication. Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud's chief executive, titled the keynote "The Agentic Cloud" and drew a deliberate contrast with competitors: other vendors, he said, are "handing you the pieces, not the platform," leaving teams to integrate components themselves. The timing is deliberate. OpenAI's Operator is scoring 87% on complex browser task benchmarks and the company has recruited Cognizant and CGI to push its Codex coding agent into enterprise software shops, with enterprise revenue now accounting for 40% of OpenAI's total. Anthropic has launched a marketplace for Claude-powered enterprise tools and its Model Context Protocol has reached 10,000 servers and 97 million monthly SDK downloads. Google is fighting from third position in cloud market share, behind AWS and Microsoft Azure, but exited the fourth quarter of 2025 with the fastest growth rate of the three at 50% year on year, and is betting that vertical integration, owning the model, the runtime, the silicon, and the distribution channel through Workspace, gives it an advantage neither competitor can replicate. Google Workspace Studio is the most consumer-facing announcement. It is a no-code platform that lets business users build and deploy AI agents across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Drive, Meet, and Chat by describing automations in plain language. A user can type "every Friday, ping me to update my tracker" and Gemini creates the automation. Workspace Studio connects to third-party applications including Asana, Jira, Mailchimp, and Salesforce, and can call external APIs via webhooks or run custom logic through Apps Script. It is rolling out to Google Workspace business, enterprise, and education customers. The developer-facing platform, now called the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, received deeper upgrades. Agent Designer, a visual flow canvas for building agent workflows, is in preview. Agent Engine Sessions and Memory Bank, which give agents persistent context across interactions, are generally available. A new Agent Garden provides prebuilt agent solutions for customer service, data analysis, and creative tasks. A free tier via Express mode lowers the entry barrier. The Model Garden now hosts more than 200 models spanning Google's own Gemini and Gemma families, third-party models including Anthropic Claude, and open models such as Llama. Google also announced six new agents for data engineering and coding in BigQuery, including a data engineering agent that automates pipeline creation from natural language prompts and a code interpreter that translates queries into executable Python with visualisations. Partner agents from Box, Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Dun and Bradstreet, and S&P Global are integrated into the platform, giving enterprise customers prebuilt capabilities for document intelligence, HR self-service, IT operations, and financial data. Project Mariner, Google DeepMind's web-browsing agent powered by Gemini 2.0, scores 83.5% on the WebVoyager benchmark and handles ten concurrent tasks on cloud-based virtual machines. It automates shopping, information retrieval, and form-filling, and is available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the United States. The roadmap includes a visual builder called Mariner Studio in the second quarter, cross-device synchronisation in the third quarter, and an agent marketplace in the fourth quarter. The most strategically significant announcement may be the least visible to end users. Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, originally launched with more than 50 technology partners, has reached 150 organisations in production, not pilot, routing real tasks between agents built on different platforms. The protocol is now governed by the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation and has reached version 1.2, with signed agent cards using cryptographic signatures for domain verification. Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow are running A2A in production environments. A2A is designed to complement rather than compete with Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP handles how an agent connects to tools and data sources. A2A handles how agents communicate with each other across organisational and platform boundaries. Google adopted MCP across its own services in December 2025, launching fully managed remote MCP servers for Google Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine, with Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, AlloyDB, Cloud SQL, Spanner, Looker, and Pub/Sub on the roadmap. Apigee, Google's API management platform, now functions as an MCP bridge, translating any standard API into a discoverable agent tool with existing security and governance controls. Google is simultaneously positioning A2A as the standard for the layer above: the orchestration of multiple agents from multiple vendors working together on a single task. The practical implication is that a Salesforce agent built on Agentforce can hand off a task to a Google agent running on Vertex AI, which can query a ServiceNow agent for IT asset data, all through A2A without any of the three systems needing to understand each other's internal architecture. Native A2A support is now built into Google's Agent Development Kit, LangGraph, CrewAI, LlamaIndex Agents, Semantic Kernel, and AutoGen. Google's open-source Agent Development Kit reached stable v1.0 releases across Python, Go, and Java, with TypeScript support also available. It is a code-first framework optimised for Gemini but model-agnostic and deployable to any container or Kubernetes environment. The security layer includes Model Armor for defence against indirect prompt injection, zero-trust architecture applied to decentralised agent systems, and access management through Google Cloud IAM with audit logging. OpenAI's own enterprise agent push through Codex and systems integrator partnerships has reached three million weekly users. Anthropic's enterprise marketplace for Claude-powered tools is building an ecosystem through partners including Snowflake. Microsoft's Copilot is embedded in virtually every Fortune 500 company. AWS has Bedrock with its own agents framework maturing rapidly. The enterprise AI agent market is not a two-horse race. It is a five-way contest in which each competitor has a structural advantage the others lack. OpenAI has the strongest consumer brand and the most advanced reasoning models. Anthropic has the most trusted safety positioning and the fastest-growing enterprise revenue. Microsoft has the deepest enterprise distribution through Office and Azure. AWS has the largest cloud infrastructure base and the strongest developer gravity. Google's argument is that it is the only company that owns all four layers of the stack: the custom silicon (Ironwood TPUs), the frontier models (Gemini), the cloud platform (now unified as the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform), and the enterprise distribution channel (Workspace with more than three billion users across Google's productivity tools). Kurian framed the strategy explicitly: "If you want to adopt a technology successfully, you need to pick a few important projects and do them well, rather than spraying on a lot of little projects." No other competitor controls the full vertical from chip to application. Google's own AI Agent Trends report, published ahead of the conference, found that 89% of business teams are already using AI agents and the average organisation runs 12. The most common enterprise use cases are customer service at 49%, marketing at 46%, security operations at 46%, and IT support at 45%. Early customer deployments suggest the productivity claims are not purely theoretical: Danfoss, the Danish industrial manufacturer, automated 80% of transactional decisions in email-based order processing using Google's agents, reducing response times from 42 hours to near real-time. Suzano, a Brazilian pulp and paper company, built an agent with Gemini Pro that translates natural language into SQL queries, cutting query time by 95% for 50,000 employees. The agents run on Google's Gemini model family, with the Gemini 2.5 generation being retired in October in favour of the 3.x line. Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash, released in late 2025 and iterated through early 2026, provide the reasoning backbone. Gemini 3 Flash delivers a 15% improvement in overall accuracy over Gemini 2.5 Flash and is optimised for high-frequency agentic workflows and real-time processing. Gemini 3.1 Pro, the most advanced reasoning variant, is available in preview. A new experimental model, GLM 5, targets complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks through the Model Garden. Gemini 3.2 is expected to be formally announced during the conference, with an expanded context window beyond one million tokens and optimised parameter counts for reduced inference latency. Demis Hassabis, DeepMind's chief executive, stated in January that his team is "focusing on Gemini 4 this year." Google also recently launched Gemma 4 open models under Apache 2.0 licensing, built from the same research as Gemini 3 and providing an open-weight alternative for enterprise customers who need to run models on their own infrastructure. The infrastructure beneath the models is equally central to the pitch. Ironwood, Google's seventh-generation TPU announced the same day, delivers 4.6 petaFLOPS per chip and scales to 9,216-chip superpods producing 42.5 exaFLOPS. Anthropic has committed to up to one million Ironwood units. The custom silicon means Google can offer inference at costs that customers buying Nvidia GPUs at retail cannot match, which in a market where inference is the dominant and growing expense, translates directly into pricing power for the agent services that run on top. Google Cloud holds roughly 11% of the cloud infrastructure market. AWS holds 31%. Azure holds 25%. The gap is significant and Cloud Next will not close it. But the agentic era, if it materialises at the scale Google is projecting, reshuffles the competitive dynamics in ways that favour a company with a vertically integrated stack over companies that assemble their AI capabilities from multiple vendors. Google is betting that the enterprise customer who adopts AI agents at scale will choose the platform where the model, the runtime, the silicon, the governance, and the productivity suite are all built by the same company and optimised to work together. It is a large bet. Cloud Next 2026 is where Google is asking enterprises to take it.
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
SpaceX strikes $60 billion deal for the right to buy AI coding startup Cursor
SpaceX (SPAX.PVT) on Tuesday announced that it had struck a deal with AI coding tool maker Cursor, which gives SpaceX the option to purchase the startup later this year for $60 billion. "SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI," the post said. "The combination of Cursor's leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX's million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world's most useful models," the post said. "Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together." The deal is part of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's plan to transform the rocket company into an AI behemoth ahead of its upcoming IPO. Musk merged SpaceX with his xAI startup in February. The SpaceX-Cursor tie-up also shows how AI startups continue to find larger partners in order to secure the compute needed to continue improving their models. Earlier this week, for instance, Amazon (AMZN) announced a $5 billion investment in Anthropic that will give the AI startup broader access to its trainium chips. The SpaceX IPO, targeted for June, is aiming for a $1.75 billion to $1.8 trillion valuation, potentially making it the largest in history. Click here for the latest technology news that will impact the stock market
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
Fast-moving Florida, Georgia wildfires prompt evacuations, travel chaos
Wildfires in drought-stricken region force evacuations, disrupt travel and worsen air quality as officials warn of ongoing danger. Dry conditions have fueled a fast-moving wildfire in northeast Florida, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. The blaze has disrupted highway travel and led Amtrak to cancel or reroute several trains. Flames also broke out in the Everglades, where a grass fire has burned thousands of acres. The fires come as Florida and Georgia face ongoing drought conditions that officials say are not expected to end soon. Areas west of Jacksonville are under an "exceptional drought." RELATED STORY Record snow drought in Western US raises concern for a spring of water shortages and wildfires The National Weather Service recommended that residents close their doors and windows, use fresh air conditioning filters, and not add to indoor pollution by lighting candles or smoking. Additionally, officials say that air quality could reach unhealthy levels in the area. They suggest remaining inside and avoiding strenuous activity outside, especially if sensitive to poor air quality. RELATED STORY | 'Super' El Niño could shape global weather, bring record heat
Another Anthropic blunder? Did hackers get into its secret Mythos AI system -- raising fresh fears about deeper security gaps and powerful cyberattack risks worldwide
Another Anthropic blunder? Reports say a small unauthorized group accessed the secret Mythos AI cybersecurity tool. That tool is built to detect vulnerabilities and simulate advanced cyberattacks. Access was not meant for public use. It was restricted and tightly controlled. Early findings point to a third-party vendor route, not a full system breach. No confirmed attacks yet. Still, the risk is serious. AI cybersecurity threats are rising fast. Even limited access can expose critical weaknesses. This incident raises big questions. Are AI safety controls strong enough? And can powerful cyber tools stay contained as global AI risks grow?
