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SpaceX is acquiring Cursor for $60B days after its blockbuster IPO, as its stock soared 20% on day one. Anthropic's standoff with the Trump administration churned on without resolution, OpenAI's 2025 spending hit $34B, and OpenRouter's Fusion claims to beat frontier models.

  • SEC filing: SpaceX agrees to acquire Anysphere in a merger valuing the Cursor-developer at $60B, expected to close in Q3 2026 (Reuters)
  • SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in a $60B stock deal, less than two months after announcing a tie-up, to help its AI division catch up to the major labs (TechCrunch)
  • SpaceX's stock closed up 19.6% on June 15, its first full day of trading; Musk said it "might be able to reach" ~$1T in revenue in 2030, up from $18.7B in 2025 (CNBC)
  • Anthropic says its senior leaders met Trump admin officials on June 15, but no resolution was reached and both sides are working to resolve things quickly (The Information)
  • A senior White House official says easing Friday's action on Anthropic will likely take more than a few days, but leaves the door open to a quick resolution (Politico)
  • Ben Thompson argues Anthropic has near-perfect alignment between talent, mission, and business — a "safety superpower" he says he both respects and fears (Stratechery)
  • Sources: audited financial figures show OpenAI spending hit $34B in 2025, including $19B on research and development and nearly $6B on sales and marketing (FT)
  • OpenRouter debuts Fusion, a tool that prompts multiple AI models in parallel, claiming it can "reach and surpass Fable-level performance on deep research tasks" (OpenRouter)
  • How OpenRouter Fusion works and how it beats frontier models — a "panel of models" approach that scored 69% on Perplexity's DRACO deep research benchmark (Digit)

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