SpaceX Acquires AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion

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SpaceX Acquires AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion

The Killeen Daily Herald

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FILE - SpaceX's mega rocket Starship prepares for a test flight from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024.

SpaceX will move forward with its $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Cursor as Elon Musk's space exploration and AI company seeks a competitive edge against rivals Anthropic and OpenAI after its Wall Street debut last week.

SpaceX said in April that it had the rights to buy Cursor, or pay $10 billion to “work together” with the company.

In a regulatory filing Tuesday, SpaceX said that Cursor will become a wholly owned subsidiary when the deal closes in the third quarter.

Cursor, made by San Francisco startup Anysphere, is a popular AI coding assistant. What SpaceX has described as Cursor's wide “distribution to expert software engineers” is likely part of what made it attractive to Musk's company, giving it access to a new customer base.

When it first announced the potential acquisition, Cursor said the partnership with SpaceX subsidiary xAI would enable it to build future AI products using xAI's massive AI data center complex Colossus, based in Memphis, Tennessee.

Cursor, which started in 2022, helped sparked a trend called “vibe coding” as AI coding assistants have become increasingly capable of doing the work of computer programming.

Cursor competes with other coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex but also has relied heavily on partnerships with those larger AI research companies for the foundations of its technology.

It was Cursor’s Composer, combined with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet, that a prominent AI researcher was playing with for weekend projects when he coined the phrase “vibe coding" in early 2025.

SpaceX became a public company on Friday in what is largely considered a successful debut. Shares of the company have jumped since Friday, and are up 9% before the opening bell Tuesday.

Area police reports indicated:

Bell County on Friday released the arrest affidavit of Jeffery Reynolds, former assistant city manager for Killeen, who is accused of indecent assault of another city employee at a retirement party.

A Harker Heights woman was ordered to stay away from two women who were the victims of an aggravated assault in Killeen almost two years ago.

Area police reports indicated:

The Harker Heights Police Department announced that, on Wednesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Bell County Sheriff’s Office served an arrest warrant for Scott Cotton, a 40-year-old resident of Killeen.

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