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Hosts: James Okafor & Maya Chen
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• Today we're covering SpaceX's massive play for Cursor, Amazon's record-breaking Anthropic investment, and Florida's criminal investigation into OpenAI...
• Starting with what might be the most unexpected acquisition story of the year—SpaceX is making moves in the AI coding space. James, this feels like it...
• Yeah, and here's why this changes everything. SpaceX just announced they're putting down $10 billion now for a partnership with Cursor, the AI coding ...
• The data tells a different story about the strategic angle here. They're planning to use SpaceX's Colossus supercomputer—that's their massive training...
• Exactly. And think about the timing—this is clearly positioning for an IPO. You've got SpaceX's hardware muscle, Cursor's coding expertise, and sudden...
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