By episode 7, we’re back in the usual spot (and the spring weather is actually holding up).

The lab is open.

This week:

The $60B Cursor Acquisition: xAI just inked a wild deal with Cursor: pay $10M for immediate cooperation, with the right to acquire the company later this year for an insane $60 billion. The war for the developer interface is officially heating up.

North Korea's Deepfake Devs: Over 3,000 North Korean IT workers are using AI video and voice filters to pass interviews and infiltrate EU/UK tech companies. They’re planting extortion backdoors in proprietary code and generating $600M for Pyongyang’s weapons programs. The hiring game is broken.

Vercel's $2M Security Nightmare: A third-party breach (via thecontext.ai) exposed sensitive environment variables, Google IDs, and API keys. The hackers are now selling the data for $2 million on the dark web, threatening the massive Next.js ecosystem.

Apple's Next CEO & Hardware Play: Tim Cook is stepping up to Executive Chairman in September, passing the torch to John Ternus (SVP of Hardware). We break down what it means for a pure hardware engineer to lead Apple into the on-device AI era.

SpaceX’s Space Monopoly: SpaceX and xAI are combining forces at a $1T+ valuation, but the real story is Starlink quietly owning 60% of all space communication frequencies and how Amazon just checkmated Apple's SOS satellite network.

Stack or Skip: GPT-5.4 just beat humans in 83% of knowledge work tasks across 44 occupations, Anthropic's Mythos model got breached by hackers guessing the API URL, the OpenAI IPO rumors, and Codex dropping a massive desktop control update.

Hackathon alert: Get your tickets now and be part of our AI Hackathon right here in Haarlem on June 6th, where we build the future live. https://hackathon.digilize.agency/

Enjoy the episode. Keep building with us. Here we go.

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