Bloomberg reporting its an agreement to either acquire for $60B later this year or pay $10B to work together https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/spacex-sa...
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SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
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#12What are we even doing here. I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviously on a serious decline and has little to no moat in the area they are building in (IDE), which we kinda now know is maybe not even the right area (CLI). I feel like this is just a bad move?
He's offloading the loss from buying Twitter. This is the smoke and mirrors phase.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#13Rockets, satellites, social media, AI - the only thing missing from the SpaceX hype portfolio is a certain coworking company. That would really set them up for an exciting IPO.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#14really happy for the Cursor team but at the same time disappointed that the biggest non-lab AI company couldn't exist on their own.
shows how intense the power laws are around ai and how much of a capital game it is.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#15That's an expensive VS Code fork.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#16What are we even doing here. I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviously on a serious decline and has little to no moat in the area they are building in (IDE), which we kinda now know is maybe not even the right area (CLI). I feel like this is just a bad move?
Trying to posture for Golden Dome, but politically he is likely locked out of the contract.
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#17Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#18What are we even doing here. I have no idea what this has to do with aerospace, but I know a bit about software and this does not look great. Cursor is obviously on a serious decline and has little to no moat in the area they are building in (IDE), which we kinda now know is maybe not even the right area (CLI). I feel like this is just a bad move?
> no idea what this has to do with aerospace
SpaceX is no longer SpaceX per se, but SpaceX-xAI.
My TL; DR (and this is mine, personally) is its mission has pivoted from colonising Mars to building a Dyson sphere. Space-based datacentres are a demand excuse for putting lots of solar panels in space. Going one level down, more Cursor use is a demand excuse for putting lots of datacentres anywhere.
Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
#19I'm sworn off from Musk-related products, and this will prob make cursor worse (switch to X's LLM for instance). So, any suggestions for switching? Codex; Claude Code? (I like my IDE and I like the freedom to choose a model, which is why I stuck with Cursor even when it felt more expensive)