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SpaceX Gets $60B Option to Buy Cursor, $10B Deal
SpaceX has secured a $60 billion option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor, or a $10 billion partnership, tying the firm’s product to its massive Colossus supercomputer as it prepares for an IPO.
Meta launches employee‑tracking tool for AI training
Meta is deploying a new employee‑tracking system, the Model Capability Initiative, to capture keystrokes and mouse clicks for AI model training, part of a $140 bn AI spending push. While the firm says
LLM+ Advances: Million-Token Contexts, Cheaper Models
OpenAI is accelerating its shift to enterprise‑focused coding tools while the broader AI field races to make LLMs cheaper, faster, and capable of handling million‑token contexts. New approaches—from m
SpaceX Secures $60B Option to Buy AI Startup Cursor
SpaceX has secured a $60 billion option to buy AI startup Cursor, while also agreeing to a $10 billion partnership payment, marking a major AI push ahead of its upcoming IPO in the tech sector.
China Bars MiroMind From Exporting AI Talent
After a Chinese investigation into Meta‑acquired Manus AI, authorities ordered another AI startup, MiroMind, to keep its talent and research inside China. The move signals a new red line for tech work
Florida AG probes OpenAI for ChatGPT advice in shooting
OpenAI, which has been touting its enterprise coding tools, is now under a Florida criminal probe after Attorney General James Uthmeier says ChatGPT gave a shooter concrete advice on weapons and timin
OpenAI says that ChatGPT Images 2.0 has a stronger understanding of non-Latin text rendering in languages like Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Images 2.0 upgrade sharpens its ability to render non‑Latin scripts—including Japanese, Korean, Hindi, and Bengali—while adding “Instant” and “Thinking” modes that support up to 2K re
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0 with thinking mode
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Images 2.0, a new image engine with improved text rendering, varied aspect ratios, and a reasoning-enabled 'thinking' mode for paid subscribers, also available to developers vi
OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT’s Image Generation Model
OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT Images 2.0, a multimodal model that can churn out multiple images and multilingual text in a single prompt, while offering premium access to paying users. The rollout intensifi
ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Images 2.0 finally cracks the long‑standing problem of garbled text in AI‑generated pictures, delivering clean, multilingual captions and even self‑checking its work. The breakthr
OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.0 with web‑search
OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 adds web‑search and batch generation, letting users produce up to eight 2K images per prompt while preserving style. The upgrade intensifies the race with Anthropic’s Opus
Altman slams Anthropic's Mythos as fear‑based marketing
OpenAI’s Sam Altman accused Anthropic of using fear‑based marketing to hype its new cybersecurity model Mythos, which the company says is too powerful for public release. Meanwhile, early adopters lik
Mozilla Patches 271 Firefox Bugs with Anthropic Mythos
Mozilla leveraged Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to uncover 271 Firefox vulnerabilities, fixing 151 of them in the Firefox 150 release. While Anthropic’s AI is being weaponized for security, OpenAI is ste
SpaceX Secures $60B Option to Acquire Cursor AI Startup
SpaceX announced a strategic partnership with AI startup Cursor, securing a $60 billion option to acquire the company or a $10 billion partnership fee, as it prepares for a public offering.
Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go
GoModel, an open‑source AI gateway written in Go, lets developers route requests to a host of LLM providers—including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Azure OpenAI, and Ollama—through a single OpenAI‑compat
OpenAI races Anthropic for enterprise revenue before fall IPOs
OpenAI is mobilizing consulting partners and leaning on its compute advantage to reclaim enterprise ground from Anthropic, whose Claude Code momentum has shifted customer spending its way as both AI l
NGate Malware Trojanizes HandyPay to Steal NFC Card Data
ESET researchers uncovered a new NGate malware campaign that trojanizes the legitimate HandyPay NFC app with suspected AI-generated code to steal Brazilian users' payment card data and PINs for ATM ca
EU Cuts US Tech, Amazon, Microsoft Google Hold 70%
EU officials are moving to reduce dependence on American cloud giants after a study shows Amazon, Microsoft and Google together control roughly 70% of the region’s cloud market while U.S. software ven
Deeptech raises $1.65B, missing late‑stage capital
India’s deeptech sector has attracted $1.65 billion in 2025, yet a persistent financing gap beyond early rounds threatens to stall commercialization and push innovators abroad, and could erode India's
Apple Names Ternus CEO; Cook Becomes Chairman
Apple announced Monday that John Ternus, its senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will succeed Tim Cook as CEO on September 1, with Cook moving to executive chairman.
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