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SpaceX partners with AI startup Cursor, may buy it for $60 bn
Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. SpaceX on Tuesday announced a partnership with AI coding company Cursor, saying the alliance comes with an option to buy the startup for $60 billion later this year. The move by Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company comes as it prepares to become publicly traded, and shortly after it took over the billionaire's artificial intelligence outfit xAI.
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Fresno tornado warning today: Funnel cloud seen in Clovis, tornado touchdown reported in California storm chaos
A tornado warning was issued for Fresno, California on Tuesday afternoon after dangerous storm activity was seen in the region, as per National Weather Service. Storm chasers reported a possible tornado touching the ground in Clovis, which is located just north of Fresno in Fresno County. A local ABC News affiliate later confirmed that a tornado touchdown had taken place in the area. The warning started after people saw a large funnel cloud or rotating storm system forming near Fresno. A video of the funnel cloud near Clovis was recorded by a local resident and later shared by ABC 30 Fresno. The tornado was reported near Shaw Avenue and Highway 99, according to local reports, as per Hindustan Times. A resident first reported a funnel cloud touching down near Biola, about nine miles west of Fresno, at 2:12 p.m. to emergency officials. The tornado was moving northeast at around 15 miles per hour, according to a National Weather Service meteorologist, as noted by New York Times. The Weather Service issued a tornado warning soon after, telling people to watch for flying debris and stay alert. Officials said the tornado stayed on the ground for more than 10 minutes during the event. Tornadoes are rare in California, but 487 have been recorded since 1950, according to weather data, as per Golden Gate Weather Services via New York Times, The last major tornado near Fresno happened in January 2019 in Clovis and was rated EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. Meteorologists said the tornado formed when moist air and warming conditions combined as a storm moved across northern California. Q1. Was there a tornado warning in Fresno today? Yes, a tornado warning was issued in Fresno after a possible tornado and funnel cloud were seen near Clovis. Q2. Did a tornado actually hit Fresno or nearby areas? Yes, reports confirmed a tornado touchdown near Clovis and Biola in Fresno County with storm damage risk.
Anthropic tests reaction to yanking Claude Code from Pro
Unannounced change apparently aimed at two percent of users but hit documentation for everyone Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its Pro subscription plan, according to some of its public-facing web pages, but the company says it's only a test for a small number of users. On Monday, the company's pricing web page stated its Pro plan "includes Claude Code." On Tuesday, that phrase is no longer present, and elsewhere on the page, the feature list for the Pro plan includes an explicit "X" rather than a check mark for Claude Code. The changes were previously noted by AI industry skeptic Ed Zitron. Anthropic's changed product inclusions have not reached all corners of its site. At the time this article was filed, the Claude Code product page still stated the Pro plan provides access to the code generation tool. And when this reporter accessed Claude Code from the CLI, the terminal output still says "Claude Pro." Claude.ai, when queried about this, insisted that the Pro plan includes Claude Code, but one of the cited documentation pages, updated today, mentions only the Max plan. Losing access to Claude Code understandably alarmed developers and that sentiment reached Anthropic, whose head of growth Amol Avasare published a social media post indicating that the change represented an experiment. "For clarity, we're running a small test on ~2 percent of new prosumer signups," he said. "Existing Pro and Max subscribers aren't affected." Why Anthropic felt that the update to its public-facing pricing page would address only some users and not the entire internet isn't entirely clear. And a company spokesperson did not respond to a follow-up question about that. Avasare went on to explain: "When we launched Max a year ago, it didn't include Claude Code, Cowork didn't exist, and agents that run for hours weren't a thing. Max was designed for heavy chat usage, that's it. "Since then, we bundled Claude Code into Max and it took off after Opus 4. Cowork landed. Long-running async agents are now everyday workflows. The way people actually use a Claude subscription has changed fundamentally. "Engagement per subscriber is way up. We've made small adjustments along the way (weekly caps, tighter limits at peak), but usage has changed a lot and our current plans weren't built for this. "So we're looking at different options to keep delivering a great experience for users. We don't know exactly what those look like yet - that's what we're testing and getting feedback on right now." Anthropic has been taking steps recently to limit usage of its AI models to dampen demand amid tight capacity, a problem also faced by GitHub and Google. Claude in its various forms has become exceedingly popular in the past few months, and the advent of projects like OpenClaw led many developers to create agents using Claude models. The basic problem is that Anthropic's subscription plans charge far less than the book value of tokens consumed, sometimes by a factor of ten or more. The company introduced usage limits last month to encourage use during off-peak hours, much as a power utility might do to prompt energy conservation. As noted by Avasare, Anthropic is exploring further usage limitations. Predictably, Claude subscribers venting in online forums resent what many assumed was a major change to their plans, noting that Anthropic appears to want former Pro subscribers to adopt cheaper-to-use Chinese models like Minimax, Qwen, Kimi, and GLM. What's striking about the transition is not so much that it happened but the lack of coherent communication to customers. Maybe Anthropic feels doesn't need to offer fair warning or clear announcements of plan changes to individual customers who pay a mere $20 a month. Enterprise customers, however, don't like that sort of uncertainty and may worry that Anthropic doesn't consider customer relations a priority. Avasare seems to be aware of this. "When we do land on something, if it affects existing subscribers you'll get plenty of notice before anything changes," he said, and promised customers "Will hear it from us, not a screenshot on X or Reddit."
Exclusive-SpaceX says unproven AI space data centers may not be commercially viable, filing shows
NEW YORK, April 21 (Reuters) - SpaceX warned investors that its ambitions to build space-based artificial intelligence data centers, as well as human settlements on the moon and Mars, rely on unproven technologies and may not become commercially viable, according to a company filing. The business risks laid out in SpaceX's pre-IPO filing, which have not been previously reported, present a far more cautious assessment of the rocket maker's future than the vision laid out publicly by billionaire CEO Elon Musk in recent weeks, as the companygears up for what could be the largest initial public offering in history. Risk factors in a prospectus are required by U.S. securities law and are designed to inform investors of potential pitfalls while also shielding companies from future legal liability. "Our initiatives to develop orbital AI compute and in-orbit, lunar, and interplanetary industrialization are in early stages, involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial viability," SpaceX said in an excerpt from the S-1 filing, which was seen by Reuters. Any future AI orbital data centers will operate "in the harsh and unpredictable environment of space, exposing them to a wide and unique range of space-related risks that could cause them to malfunction or fail," the document said. MUSK SAYS AI IN SPACE IS A 'NO-BRAINER' Companies use the S-1 registration document to disclose their finances and risks before going public. SpaceX is targeting a listing in the coming months at a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion with a $75 billion raise, which would make it the largest initial public offering in history. Musk said at the World Economic Forum in January that building AI data centers in space was "a no-brainer" and that it would be the cheapest place to put AI within two to three years. In February, after announcing a merger between SpaceX and his social media and artificial intelligence firm xAI, he said "space-based AI is obviously the only way to scale". SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for further comment. SpaceX also highlighted its heavy dependence on Starship, its next-generation fully reusable rocket, which has suffered several delays and testing failures. "Any failure or delay in the development of Starship at scale or in achieving the required launch cadence, reusability and capabilities thereof would delay or limit our ability to execute our growth strategy," the filing said. Starship is designed to loft far larger payloads than SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket, aiming to dramatically reduce launch costs for Starlink satellites, space‑based data centers and human missions to the moon. (Reporting by Echo Wang; Writing by Joe Brock; Editing by Nick Zieminski)
SpaceX Secures Option to Acquire AI Code Editor Cursor for $60 Billion
Elon Musk's SpaceX has struck a deal that gives it the option to acquire Cursor's parent company, Anysphere, for $60 billion. The agreement allows SpaceX to complete the purchase later this year, or pay $10 billion as part of the collaboration if it decides not to proceed. The partnership pairs Cursor's established footprint among software engineers with SpaceX's Colossus training supercomputer, described as having the equivalent of one million H100 GPUs. The companies say the collaboration will focus on building some of the world's most useful AI models for coding and knowledge work. "We're very excited about working with them and we think SpaceX is basically the best company in the world when it comes to building out compute. The feats they have been able to pull off are extraordinary," said Oskar Schulz, president of Anysphere. The move positions SpaceX more directly in the escalating race for developer tools. According to a report from Financial Times, the company is working to close the gap with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic, whose models have so far outpaced those from Musk's xAI lab. SpaceX has been integrating its AI efforts more closely with xAI ahead of a widely anticipated summer IPO. Competitors have increasingly targeted Apple platforms, launching dedicated desktop experiences such as the Codex app for macOS. Apple has also moved to support these tools, adding agentic coding integrations from OpenAI and Anthropic directly into Xcode 26.3. SpaceX confirmed the terms of the agreement in a post on X, noting that Cursor's product and reach among developers combined with its compute resources could accelerate progress in AI-assisted coding.
Anthropic's Mythos model accessed by unauthorized users, Bloomberg News reports
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SpaceX secures option to buy AI startup Cursor for $60bn or partner for $10bn
Cursor is aSilicon Valley startup using AI to automate coding as Elon Musk's firm seeks foothold in the AI market SpaceX said it has secured an option to either acquire code-generation startup Cursor for $60bn later this year, or pay $10bn for their new partnership, as it pushes deeper into the lucrative market for AI developer tools. Along with OpenAI and Anthropic, Cursor is one of several Silicon Valley startups that has drawn waves of developers by using artificial intelligence to automate coding, a business where AI companies have found early commercial traction. The deal could give xAI, the Grok chatbot maker that SpaceX merged with in February, a stronger foothold in the AI coding market where it has so far lagged rivals. It also provides Cursor with more computing capacity to develop AI models. "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," SpaceX said in a social media post on Tuesday. Colossus is xAI's supercomputer cluster in Memphis, which it has touted as the largest in the world. The company has been spending billions of dollars on AI infrastructure. The announcement comes ahead of SpaceX's highly anticipated public debut in the coming months, with the company eyeing a valuation of close to $1.75tn and a $75bn fundraise that could go down as the biggest IPO in history. Two product engineering heads at Cursor, a startup that sells AI models for coding tasks, said in March they joined SpaceX to contribute to the company's lunar projects and xAI, Musk's AI startup that is now part of SpaceX. Musk welcomed the engineers, Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg, saying, "Orbital space centers and mass drivers on the Moon will be incredible."
What is Cursor? SpaceX could buy the AI company for a whopping $60 billion.
Anthropic and OpenAI have emphasized AI coding tools, and now Elon Musk's SpaceX is looking to bulk up its efforts in this buzzy area Cursor CEO Michael Truell says the new SpaceX collaboration is a "meaningful step on our path to build the best place to code with AI." SpaceX's next acquisition could end up being Cursor, the rapidly growing artificial-intelligence startup behind popular tools that have been praised by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. In a statement posted to X on Tuesday, SpaceX said it is working with Cursor to create what it said would be the "world's best coding and knowledge work AI." In February, SpaceX acquired xAI, which operates the Grok chatbot. Both companies were founded by Elon Musk. SpaceX said that Cursor had given it the right to outright buy the startup later this year for $60 billion, far more than its most recent private-market valuation. Otherwise, SpaceX could pay Cursor $10 billion for their collaboration. Last November, Cursor said that it had closed a $2.3 billion funding round at a $29.3 billion post-money valuation. Just five months earlier, the startup was valued at $9.9 billion after raising $900 million. And the company is set to raise another roughly $2 billion in a funding round that would value it at more than $50 billion, according to Bloomberg News. A representative for Cursor did not immediately return a request for comment. It's unclear when SpaceX could officially buy Cursor, were it to pursue that option. The announcement comes as SpaceX prepares for a historic initial public offering that could happen as early as June, and as xAI looks to compete against the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic, both of which have emphasized AI coding tools. See: Space investing is heating up as SpaceX rockets toward a record-breaking IPO SpaceX aims to raise around $75 billion in its IPO and ended 2025 with $24.7 billion in cash on hand, Reuters has reported, citing excerpts of the company's confidential registration filing. Adding Cursor to SpaceX's empire would be expensive but give the company access to a popular tool widely used by developers and engineers. On its website, Cursor cites endorsements from leaders at Stripe, OpenAI and Eureka Labs. "My favorite enterprise AI service is Cursor," Nvidia's (NVDA) Huang told CNBC in October. "Cursor is an AI coder and every one of our engineers, 100 percent, is now assisted by AI coders, and our productivity has gone up incredibly." Cursor launched its first AI coding assistant in 2023. The tool quickly became popular and has helped lead to the rise of "vibe coding." Earlier this month, it unveiled Cursor 3, which it called a "unified workspace" for building software with assistance from AI agents. The company also recently launched Composer 2, a model that it promoted as offering "frontier-level" coding intelligence. However, it was later reported to have been based on a Chinese company's open-source model. "Yes, that is the base we started from," Lee Robinson, a Cursor vice president, said on X. "And we are following the license through inference partner terms." Michael Truell, Cursor's CEO, said on X on Tuesday that the arrangement marked a "meaningful step on our path to build the best place to code with AI." In a blog post on Tuesday, Cursor said its efforts to train more capable models was "bottlenecked by compute." It plans to leverage xAI's infrastructure to "dramatically scale up" its models' intelligence. Cursor has said that it has annualized revenue of more than $1 billion and that its products are used by more than half of the Fortune 500, including Uber Technologies (UBER) and Adobe (ADBE). It counts both Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) and Nvidia as investors and partners. The company's growth is rapid but dovetails with the surge of hype around AI companies. Anthropic and OpenAI are both widely expected to pursue IPOs as soon as this year and have seen their valuations skyrocket in a relatively short period of time. Read more: Nvidia rival Cerebras is taking another swing at an IPO -William Gavin This content was created by MarketWatch, which is operated by Dow Jones & Co. MarketWatch is published independently from Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal.
SpaceX partners with AI startup Cursor, may buy it for $60 bn
SpaceX on Tuesday announced a partnership with AI coding company Cursor, saying the alliance comes with an option to buy the startup for $60 billion later this year. The move by Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company comes as it prepares to become publicly traded, and shortly after it took over the billionaire's artificial intelligence outfit xAI. Cursor, founded in 2022 and based in San Francisco, specializes in AI for creating software code, particularly for business uses. "SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI," the company said in a post on X. Combining Cursor's software and product expertise with SpaceX's "Colossus" AI training supercomputer will enable the company "to build the world's most useful models," it said. Musk announced in February that SpaceX would acquire xAI, a step in his plan to launch solar-powered, satellite-based data centers to run future AI models. SpaceX has set the pace in the space launch market, offering reusable rockets that vastly reduce the cost of putting satellites into orbit and itself owning the largest satellite constellation, Starlink. The company is set for a stock market listing this year widely expected to be the biggest in history, with media reports pointing to an initial public offering (IPO) as early as June. Musk called SpaceX's absorption of xAI "not just the next chapter, but the next book" for the companies. "Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions... The only logical solution therefore is to transport these resource-intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space," Musk wrote when his companies were merged. The project fits into Musk's long-term ambition to build colonies on the Moon and Mars and is "a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization," he wrote. Coined in the 1960s by a Soviet astronomer, the futurist term refers to a civilization able to use all of the energy from its home system's star. SpaceX filed papers early this year with US regulators that set the stage for what could be the largest-ever public stock offering, a source familiar with the matter told AFP. The confidential filing puts the rocket and satellite builder on track to list its shares on a public exchange by July, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing unidentified sources. Media reports have said the initial public offering could be valued at a whopping $75 billion or more, for a venture with stratospheric ambitions. If successful, SpaceX could arrive on Wall Street with a valuation exceeding $1.75 trillion, putting it among the world's ten biggest companies by market capitalization. Besides SpaceX, two other tech heavyweights, the AI developers OpenAI and Anthropic, are reportedly planning IPOs this year.
AI startup Anthropic commits $100 billion to Amazon's AWS over next 10 years
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to commit more than $100 billion to Amazon's AWS cloud platform over the next 10 years to train and run its Claude chatbot. Amazon will invest $5 billion immediately as part of the new agreement announced this week by the companies, and up to another $20 billion in the future. Amazon previously invested $8 billion in Anthropic. The partnership will allow Anthropic to secure up to 5 gigawatts of Amazon's Trainium chips to train and power their artificial intelligence models. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW "Our custom AI silicon offers high performance at significantly lower cost for customers, which is why it's in such hot demand," said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Amazon said AWS customers will be able to access the full Anthropic-native Claude console from within the AWS cloud platform. Earlier this year, privately-held Anthropic said its valuation grew to $380 billion, positioning itself alongside rivals OpenAI and Elon Musk's rocket maker SpaceX, which recently merged with his AI startup xAI, maker of the chatbot Grok. Renaissance Capital, which researches the potential for initial public offerings, counts Anthropic as third among the most valuable private firms, behind SpaceX and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, valued at $500 billion. Anthropic and Amazon have partnered since 2023 to accelerate generative AI adoption for customers to build, deploy, and scale AI applications. Amazon says 100,000 customers run Anthropic Claude models on AWS. In February, the Trump administration ordered all U.S. agencies to stop using Anthropic's artificial intelligence technology and imposed other major penalties for refusing to allow the U.S. military unrestricted use of its AI technology. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW In an unusually public clash between the government and the company, President Donald Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other officials took to social media to chastise Anthropic, accusing it of endangering national security. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refused to back down over concerns the company's products could be used in ways that would violate its safeguards. Anthropic said it would challenge what it called an unprecedented and legally unsound action "never before publicly applied to an American company." Earlier this month, a federal appeals court refused to block the Pentagon from blacklisting artificial intelligence laboratory Anthropic in a decision that differed from the conclusions reached in another judge's ruling on the same issues. Anthropic is not yet profitable but said in February that it's on track for sales of $14 billion over the next year. Anthropic was founded by ex-OpenAI employees in 2021 and released its first version of Claude in 2023, following OpenAI's ChatGPT debut in late 2022.
Trump says Anthropic is 'shaping up', open to deal with Pentagon
WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said on April 21 that Anthropic was "shaping up" in the eyes of his administration, opening the door for the AI company to reverse its blacklisting at the Pentagon. Mr Trump directed the government in February to stop working with Anthropic. The Pentagon followed up by declaring the firm a supply-chain risk, dealing a major blow to the artificial intelligence lab after a showdown over guardrails for how the military could use its AI tools. The company disputes that it poses a risk and filed suit against the Defense Department in March over the determination. Anthropic chief executive officer Dario Amodei met with White House officials on April 17 to attempt to repair the relationship. The White House called the meeting productive and constructive. "They came to the White House a few days ago, and we had some very good talks with them," Mr Trump told CNBC's Squawk Box on April 21. "And I think they're shaping up. They're very smart, and I think they can be of great use. I like smart people... I think we'll get along with them just fine." When asked if a deal was on the horizon with the Pentagon, Mr Trump said: "It's possible. We want the smartest people." Anthropic, asked for comment, referred to its April 17 statement describing its White House meeting as productive and focused on how the two "can work together on key shared priorities such as cybersecurity, America's lead in the AI race, and AI safety". The remarks from Mr Trump are the clearest sign yet of a rapprochement between his administration and Anthropic, whose Claude models are highly regarded for coding. It comes just weeks after Anthropic unveiled Mythos, its most advanced AI tool, with a potentially unprecedented ability to identify cybersecurity vulnerabilities and devise ways to exploit them, experts have said. Anthropic has said Claude Mythos Preview will not be made generally available. Instead, the company announced Project Glasswing, in which it invited major tech companies, cybersecurity vendors and US bank JPMorgan Chase, along with several dozen other organisations, to privately evaluate the model and prepare defences accordingly. Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark said last week the firm was discussing its frontier AI model Mythos with the Trump administration without providing details. Anthropic, which Republican Trump still characterised as employing "the radical left", in his April 21 comments, ran afoul of the Trump administration after it sought assurances from the Pentagon that its AI tools would not be used to surveil Americans or operate autonomous weapons. The Pentagon's ban on Anthropic forbade Defense Department employees and private sector contractors from using the company's AI tools after a six-month period, though the rule contained important exemptions for national security, Reuters reported. A Washington, DC, federal appeals court earlier in April declined to block the Pentagon's national security blacklisting of AI company Anthropic for now, a win for the Trump administration that came after another appeals court came to the opposite conclusion in a separate legal challenge by Anthropic. REUTERS
'No npm packages compromised,' confirms Vercel after security attack - AMBCrypto
Vercel, a Web3 infrastructure provider, has finally provided a breather to the crypto community as it announced that no Node Package Manager (npm) package was affected in the attack. For context, npm is like an app store for code, facilitating speedy development by enabling managing and reusing code instead of redoing everything. The confirmation on this was made by the Vercel security team in collaboration with GitHub, Microsoft, npm, and Socket. This disclosure comes on the heels of a bunch of Vercel's customers credentials getting attacked as the hacker got access to customers's API keys. Though the attack was initially aimed at the Context.ai. The "keys" (OAuth tokens), however, attached to the AI tool gave the attacker access to the employee's Google Workspace. And Vercel, being one of the organizations of the OAuth app, got dragged in. Despite npm being safe from getting attacked, Vercel didn't have a laid-back attitude. The Web3 infrastructure provider went ahead and added another layer of security with a minimum 2-step authentication method. The first was an authenticator app configuration, and the other was initiating a passkey. The Vercel team also noted, Deleting your Vercel projects or account is not sufficient to eliminate risk. Instead, they recommend reviewing and rotating unmasked "sensitive" environment variables. Additionally, the Vercel security team also urged customers to review and investigate the activity log. Applauding his team's move, Vercel's CEO Guillermo Rauch noted, Though everything looks clean on the surface, an important question pops up -- how, despite such a kind of attack, was nothing compromised? Notably, there were screenshots circulating on X concerning Vercel striking a deal to sell their company's internal database in return for $2 million USD. However, it's still unknown whether it was actually Vercel or the hacker who was manipulating the customers. This is because in another screenshot, Vercel clearly asked the exploiter to stop texting its employees. In conclusion, despite getting access to Google Workspace, the attacker was only able to majorly access non-sensitive variables, which were nothing but useless text. Lastly, the wrongdoer also couldn't rewrite the actual source code hosted on GitHub or GitLab. Hence, despite the attack, no major loss was incurred.
Anthropic investigating unauthorised access of powerful Mythos AI model
Anthropic is investigating whether a group of users gained unauthorised access to its Claude Mythos model, which was only released to a handful of trusted companies because of its advanced cyber security capabilities. The AI lab on Tuesday said it was looking into reports that a group of people had accessed the model through a system set for third-party companies doing work for Anthropic. The company said: "We're investigating a report claiming unauthorised access to Claude Mythos Preview through one of our third-party vendor environments." The incident raises concerns about whether the $380bn AI lab can keep the technology it develops out of the hands of bad actors. Anthropic limited the release of Claude Mythos Preview to a small group of trusted tech companies, citing the risk of people misusing the model to conduct cyber attacks at a scale and speed beyond human capabilities. The risk of unauthorised access will add to anxiety about Mythos, which has sent shockwaves through the markets and prompted high-level discussions among financial institutions and global regulators. One of the people who gained unauthorised access was able to use their permissions as a contractor for Anthropic to tap into Mythos, according to Bloomberg, which first reported the incident. Anthropic said it had no evidence of activity extending beyond the "vendor environment", which third parties use to access systems for model development. AI labs commonly use third-party contractors for tasks such as model testing, although it was not clear which vendor was involved in the incident. Anthropic launched Mythos earlier this month to companies including Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco and CrowdStrike. The San Francisco-based company said these partners would be able to detect and secure cyber vulnerabilities using Mythos's advanced capabilities before the model was released to the public. Security experts have cautioned that, in the wrong hands, hackers could exploit bugs faster than organisations can fix them. Anthropic's security processes have been under intense scrutiny after descriptions of the model, including its name, were discovered in a publicly accessible data cache in March. The AI lab blamed human error. Earlier this month, internal source code for the company's coding assistant Claude Code was also made public in a second incident.
SpaceX says partnering with Cursor, option to buy AI startup for $60 billion in high-stakes pre-IPO move | Company Business News
SpaceX has unveiled an ambitious agreement with artificial intelligence startup Cursor, securing the option to acquire the fast-rising coding platform for $60 billion later this year or, alternatively, to invest $10 billion in their ongoing collaboration. The announcement marks a decisive escalation in Elon Musk's efforts to position SpaceX at the forefront of AI-driven software development ahead of a potential public listing that could rank among the largest in history. The Cursor partnership now gives SpaceX access to one of the most commercially successful AI coding products on the market. Cursor's AI assistant, first launched in 2023, helps software developers write, test, and debug code at scale. It has become a central tool in what the technology industry has taken to calling the "vibe coding" era -- a shorthand for AI-assisted development workflows that have rapidly transformed how software is built. Cursor president Oskar Schulz underscored the appeal of the arrangement from his company's perspective: "The SpaceX team has an enormous amount of compute and we think together we can scale up our model efforts and we're really excited about it. We really like their team." Founded in 2023, Cursor has emerged as one of the fastest-growing startups in the AI ecosystem, riding a surge in demand for tools that enhance developer productivity. Its AI assistant enables programmers to write, debug and refine code with unprecedented efficiency, positioning the company at the centre of what industry insiders describe as the "vibe coding" movement. Cursor president Oskar Schulz highlighted the technological synergy underpinning the deal: "The SpaceX team 'has an enormous amount of compute and we think together we can scale up our model efforts and we're really excited about it,'" adding, "We really like their team." Cursor's chief executive, Michael Truell, confirmed the partnership on X, writing that he is "excited to partner with the SpaceX team to scale up Composer" -- a reference to Cursor's proprietary AI model. "A meaningful step on our path to build the best place to code with AI," Truell added. The Cursor agreement arrives less than a week before Musk is due in court in Northern California for a high-profile legal dispute with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman -- whose company was among Cursor's earliest investors. If executed, the acquisition would rank among the largest in the history of the AI sector, signalling that competition is shifting from incremental innovation to large-scale consolidation. With Elon Musk preparing for a high-profile legal confrontation involving OpenAI leadership in Northern California, the stakes in the AI race appear higher than ever. The Cursor agreement suggests that SpaceX intends not merely to participate in that race, but to reshape its trajectory.
Unauthorized Group Has Gained Access To Anthropic's Exclusive Cyber Tool Mythos, Report Claims
Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic's exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims - BERITAJA is one of the most discussed topics today. In this article, you will find a clear explanation, key facts, and the latest updates related to this topic, presented in a concise and easy-to-understand way. Read more news on Beritaja. A group of unauthorized users has reportedly gained entree to Mythos, the cybersecurity instrumentality precocious announced by Anthropic. Much has been made of Mythos and its purported powerfulness -- an AI merchandise designed for endeavor information that, successful the incorrect hands, could go a potent hacking tool, according to the company. Now, Bloomberg has reported that a "private online forum," the members of which person not been publically identified, has managed to summation entree to the instrumentality done a third-party vendor. "We're investigating a study claiming unauthorized entree to Claude Mythos Preview done 1 of our third-party vendor environments," an Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch. The institution said that, truthful far, it has recovered nary grounds that the supposedly unauthorized activity impacted Anthropic's systems astatine all. The unauthorized group tried a number of different strategies to summation entree to the model, including utilizing "access" enjoyed by the personification who was interviewed by Bloomberg. That personification is presently employed astatine a third-party contractor that useful for Anthropic, the outlet reported. Members of the group are portion of a Discord transmission that activity retired accusation about unreleased AI models, the outlet reported. The group has been utilizing Mythos regularly since gaining entree to it, and provided grounds to Bloomberg successful the shape of screenshots and a unrecorded objection of the software. Bloomberg reports that the group, which supposedly gained entree to the instrumentality connected the very aforesaid time it was publically announced, "made an knowledgeable conjecture about the model's online location based connected knowledge about the format Anthropic has utilized for different models." The group successful mobility is "interested successful playing about pinch caller models, not wreaking havoc pinch them," the root told the outlet. Mythos was released to a prime number of vendors, including large names for illustration Apple, arsenic portion of an inaugural called Project Glasswing. The constricted merchandise of the exemplary was designed to extremity its usage by bad actors. The instrumentality could beryllium weaponized against firm information alternatively of bolstering it, Anthropic said. If true, unauthorized usage of Mythos could spell problem for Anthropic, which provided the exclusive merchandise to allay the company's interest for endeavor security.
Cutting eedge: Anthropic's Claude Mythos preview is a "double-edged sword," expert says
By becoming a member, I agree to receive information and promotional messages from Cyber Daily. I can opt out of these communications at any time. For more information, please visit our Privacy Statement. And while it may only be the hands of the good guys at the moment... That moment cannot last. The horse will bolt. The barndoor cannot be closed. "This generational improvement in coding ability directly translates to a significant advance in vulnerability discovery and exploit generation. These capabilities, however guardrailed, will not stay contained," Lee Klarich, Palo Alto Networks chief product & technology officer, said in a recent blog post. "Similar advances will appear across other major AI labs, Chinese models, and open source models. Attackers will find the seams in those guardrails. They will use advanced AI to discover zero-day vulnerabilities at scale, generate exploits in near real time, and develop autonomous attack agents unlike anything the industry has faced." If you want an example, imagine what Chinese threat groups such as Volt Typhoon could do with access to a tool that can lay out zero-days for them to exploit for... Well, days. The problem, as Klarich sees things, is that if you're not reacting to this, if you're not preparing for this, you're already losing the race. "Within six months, advanced AI models with deep cybersecurity capabilities will become commonplace," Klarich said. "Organisations that have not put appropriate safeguards in place will face an entirely new class of risk across their enterprise and critical infrastructure." Where to start getting ready Guido Grillenmeier, Semperis' Principal Technologist for the EMEA region, has a somewhat more whimsical - if no less concerning - take on the impact of Mythos. "The situation reminds me a bit of the Sorcerer's Apprentice - calling on (almost) magical power that we can't quite yet control," Grillenmeier said. "And if we're lucky enough, we'll also just get wet feet like Mickey Mouse in Disney's Fantasia Masterpiece, before some proper governance for releasing newly found power is in place!" Grillenmeier said he is convinced that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell must already be feeling the water sloshing around their ankles, and swiftly rising. When informed of the new model's vulnerability-hunting capabilities, the pair summoned Wall Street leaders to an emergency meeting to make sure they're properly prepared for this rising tide. Speaking of models such as Mythos, Grillenmeier said that not only are they great at creating code and spotting vulnerabilities in it, but also at creating exploits to target those exact same vulnerabilities. According to Grillenmeier, they often focus on "routines responsible for handling user authentication, as once you breach the authentication, you can rule the complete system". "This logic hasn't changed - just the speed of finding new vulnerabilities has increased dramatically," Grillenmeier said. "As such, concentrating on your Identity Security will get you far to limit the blast radius, if a new vulnerability comes up from the trenches." Running the race The wider situation is hardly new. As Grillenmeier notes, Jen Easterly, the CEO of RSAC, believes the biggest risk organisations currently face is the fact that the software we rely upon is basically unsafe. "The hope is that with AI we will soon have the power to find those unfound risks in operating systems and various libraries used by everyone, as well as systems managing our digital identities," Grillenmeier said. "The key is to make use of this capability before the adversaries do - not just in the banking industry, but basically everywhere! Concentrating on your Identity Security is a proper first step, until you and your software providers can re-validate and patch all code running in your company. The race is on!"
SpaceX Strikes A High-Stakes Deal For AI Coding Startup Cursor
SpaceX says it can buy Cursor later this year or pay $10 billion to partner, strengthening xAI's developer tools push as it gears up for a public debut. Reuters reports SpaceX struck a high-stakes deal with AI coding startup Cursor, letting SpaceX either buy it later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for a deep partnership. What does this mean? AI that helps write and manage code is one of generative AI's clearest moneymakers, because companies can justify it as a productivity tool rather than a nice-to-have chatbot. SpaceX is pitching this as a way to strengthen xAI, the firm behind the Grok chatbot, by pairing Cursor's developer product with xAI's heavy-duty computing power. That matters because better coding systems can be sold to software teams and also speed up SpaceX's own engineering, which..
SpaceX Has Option to Buy Cursor for $60 Billion - XAI and Cursor Try to Catch Athropic Claude Code | NextBigFuture.com
SpaceXAI and Cursor_ai are partners trying to catch up to Anthropic and Claude Code. XAI data center and hundreds of thousands of chips can power Cursor Composer 2. 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. Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together. Cursor stopped being just an editor in March. They shipped Composer 2, their own model, and it beat Claude Opus 4.6 on Terminal-Bench at one-tenth the price. The catch is that frontier coding models need frontier compute, and the only labs with frontier compute are the same ones building competing coding products. OpenAI shipped Codex. Anthropic shipped Claude Code. Google has Gemini CLI. Cursor was renting capacity from every company trying to kill it. XAI Colossus and Colossus 2 give the compute 230,000 GPUs in Memphis today in Colossus 1 and another 550,000 chips in Colossus 2. 1 million by year end in Colossus 2. Cursor is renting tens of thousands of those chips to train Composer 3. SpaceX-XAI is also building Grok Code. Either Cursor Composer wins or Grok Code wins. If Grok Code wins, XAI SpaceX pay $10 billion and walk. If Composer 3 wins then SpaceX-XAI buys Cursor. Cursor gave up the right to be acquired by anyone else for one year. Got training compute at a scale no other lab would sell them. Got $10 billion guaranteed if Elon walks. OpenAI tried to buy Cursor in early 2025 and got rejected. Cursor stays independent for at least 12 more months and gets to train on the biggest cluster on earth doing it. Elon has a one-year option to buy Cursor. Will pay $10 billion for this right and will pay $60 billion to actually do the deal.
SpaceX partners with AI startup Cursor, may buy it for $60 bn
SpaceX says merging the coding expertise of startup Cursor with its supercomputer will enable it to train cutting edge AI models SpaceX on Tuesday announced a partnership with AI coding company Cursor, saying the alliance comes with an option to buy the startup for $60 billion later this year. The move by Elon Musk's rocket and satellite company comes as it prepares to become publicly traded, and shortly after it took over the billionaire's artificial intelligence outfit xAI. Cursor, founded in 2022 and based in San Francisco, specializes in AI for creating software code, particularly for business uses. "SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world's best coding and knowledge work AI," the company said in a post on X. Combining Cursor's software and product expertise with SpaceX's "Colossus" AI training supercomputer will enable the company "to build the world's most useful models," it said. Musk announced in February that SpaceX would acquire xAI, a step in his plan to launch solar-powered, satellite-based data centers to run future AI models. SpaceX has set the pace in the space launch market, offering reusable rockets that vastly reduce the cost of putting satellites into orbit and itself owning the largest satellite constellation, Starlink. The company is set for a stock market listing this year widely expected to be the biggest in history, with media reports pointing to an initial public offering (IPO) as early as June. Musk called SpaceX's absorption of xAI "not just the next chapter, but the next book" for the companies. "Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions... The only logical solution therefore is to transport these resource-intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space," Musk wrote when his companies were merged. The project fits into Musk's long-term ambition to build colonies on the Moon and Mars and is "a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization," he wrote. Coined in the 1960s by a Soviet astronomer, the futurist term refers to a civilization able to use all of the energy from its home system's star. SpaceX filed papers early this year with US regulators that set the stage for what could be the largest-ever public stock offering, a source familiar with the matter told AFP. The confidential filing puts the rocket and satellite builder on track to list its shares on a public exchange by July, according to The Wall Street Journal, citing unidentified sources. Media reports have said the initial public offering could be valued at a whopping $75 billion or more, for a venture with stratospheric ambitions. If successful, SpaceX could arrive on Wall Street with a valuation exceeding $1.75 trillion, putting it among the world's ten biggest companies by market capitalization. Besides SpaceX, two other tech heavyweights, the AI developers OpenAI and Anthropic, are reportedly planning IPOs this year.
