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SpaceX secures option to buy AI coding startup Cursor for $60B


SpaceX announced the deal on X, pre-empting a New York Times report that framed it as a completed acquisition. The structure gives SpaceX optionality: exercise the call by year end or walk away having paid $10B for shared compute access and joint model work. Cursor CEO Michael Truell called it a partnership to ‘scale up […]



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Daredevil season 2 episode 6 finally reveals what Jessica Jones (and Luke Cage) have been up to since 2019

Jessica Jones returns to Marvel in Daredevil: Born Again and she's got some surprising updates.

Behind the unraveling of Dan Crenshaw

In 2019, a 36-year-old Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), newly elected to Congress, was photographed for the inaugural Time 100 Next List, wearing a dashing eye patch and looking upwards with hope. A Harvard-educated Navy SEAL who'd lost an eye while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, Crenshaw was in rarefied company, listed among the magazine's candidates […]

Why are states unleashing millions of these fish?

Every year, federal and state wildlife agencies in the US breed millions of fish and release them into the wild, all for fishers to catch. They do this because many ecosystems no longer support the thriving fish populations they once did, due to dams, pollution, and rising water temperatures.  But there’s a catch. In many […]

What happens when a tradwife has to put her money where her mouth is

Yesteryear, the buzzy new debut novel by Caro Claire Burke, has the kind of premise it’s hard to look away from: A tradwife influencer named Natalie — a Harvard dropout who married rich at 20 — wakes up in 1855. Gone are her tastefully discrete appliances, her prized collection of luxury sweaters, her team of […]