Posted by Alumni from TechCrunch
August 16, 2026
Elon Musk's SpaceX ' which also acquired Musk's xAI earlier this year ' announced a deal in April for the companies to develop technology together; the deal also gave SpaceX the option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Two months later, as SpaceX became a public company, the companies said they were moving forward with the acquisition. In its announcement that the deal has closed, Cursor repeatedly referenced SpaceX's computing infrastructure, which the company has been renting out to customers including Anthropic and Google. (SpaceX also faces a lawsuit over the pollution created by its data center gas turbines.) learn more