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SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by ilikehurdles »

ValentineC wrote: post #572
handfuloflight wrote: post #557

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Did you actually own it though, per their TOS? What title was granted, if so? Also, and no offense intended truly, I think your having a grand total of 2 followers after 19 years was apart of their risk calculus in this seizure.

> Also, and no offense intended truly, I think your having a grand total of 2 followers after 19 years was apart of their risk calculus in this seizure. My account was hijacked via domain/DNS takeover around the time it was acquired by fElon (due to both Crazy Domains and Twitter support's incompetence — both parties removed 2FA from my accounts, even despite me telling Crazy Domains specifically never to do so). I m…

couldn't your name have been changed by your hijacker and sold?

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by tber123 »

bredren wrote: post #387
ignoramous wrote: post #306

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Despite their impressive ARR, Cursor faces existential threat from not only BigLabs (Claude Code, Open AI Codex) but also BigTech (AWS Kiro, Google Antigravity, MS VSCode). I am sure the usual suspects would have lined up to purchase Cursor, and the deal from xAI was probably the best of the lot. Marks an end to a remarkable sprint for a 3yo company, and an admirable exit (considering the recent discombobulation of W…

It has shown surprising stickiness. Occupying some middle ground between full adoption and still ~in the code. I am starting to see some potential in moving back away from pure terminal, a mixed modality with AI. But it is not in the direction of IDE in any traditional sense.

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Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by taneq »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #53
riffraff wrote: post #29

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This is like me, a couch potato, pivoting from "I'm going to run a half marathon" to "I'm going to do a marathon in under ten minutes"

It's a mission, not a business plan. Colonising Mars was always a moonshot as well. But it aligned the company's priorities. My point is regardless of what you think of a Dyson sphere, this theory seems to predict what the company does better than assuming everything's a ketamine fever dream.

Mars was a moonshot, pivot to the actual moon. ;)

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by laughing_man »

metabagel wrote: post #419
laughing_man wrote: post #342

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In 2024 Gwynne Shotwell said Starlink had a $600 million positive free cash flow based on $8.2 billion in revenue. Last year revenue estimates from both SpaceX and from outside people adding up new military contracts came out to about $11.8 billion. Their fixed costs haven't gone up much, so the big unknown is development costs for military contracts. I think $2 billion is a reasonable, conservative estimate.

How much of that are they sinking into Starship?

Probably some, but $2 billion a year? That seems like too much.

Re: SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Post by taneq »

cramsession wrote: post #218
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #53

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It's a mission, not a business plan. Colonising Mars was always a moonshot as well. But it aligned the company's priorities. My point is regardless of what you think of a Dyson sphere, this theory seems to predict what the company does better than assuming everything's a ketamine fever dream.

> this theory seems to predict what the company does better than assuming everything's a ketamine fever dream. I think Musk being a ketamine addict explains a lot and this is very aligned. Given that he can't build a self-driving car, he would have to be under the influence of very strong drugs to think he could build a Dyson sphere of all things. That being said, some sort of financial fraud is even more on brand.

Dumb question, do the cybercab thingies not drive themselves? Having a safety driver doesn’t disqualify them if for the vast majority of the time they’re autonomous. It just means they’re earlier into chasing 9’s than Waymo.

The characterisation of “level 5” autonomy as the car handling any conceivable circumstance (not that you explicitly made this claim here) is just silly. Humans can’t handle any conceivable circumstance either.

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Post by danso »

whatsupdog wrote: post #589
throwanem wrote: post #522

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Has the availability of deepfake porn generation reduced the demand for deepfake porn featuring real people? When deepfake generators are capable of creating convincing imagery of flawless ideal fake humans, why do you suppose there’s so many real humans who report being non-consensual subjects of deepfake porn?

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Post by pjc50 »

fy20 wrote: post #496
silisili wrote: post #140

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> largely not doing much outside of 'grok is this true' Hey now, don't forget about it's super important other use, taking innocent photos of people and regenerating them in less clothing and compromising positions. I'm sad that I even know that.

They changed that recently, you need to be paying €10/mo for that now. The free plan and/or access for the basic Twitter plan are gone.

That doesn't make it better! It did somehow slow down the regulatory response because politicians are dumb, though.

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Post by throe930rkrdi »

throwanem wrote: post #522
Barbing wrote: post #499

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I heard he made a deal with a company to use his clusters. Is there good data on demand for Grok? Seems like relatively little chatter at least, in spite of tremendous investment.

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