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Industry

SpaceX Acquires AI Coding Tool Cursor for $60 Billion

SpaceX acquired Cursor, an AI-native code editor developed by Anysphere, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal shortly after its IPO. The tool, created by four MIT students, helps developers write, debug, and refactor software. The acquisition gives SpaceXAI and Grok Build a distribution channel to millions of professional developers, leveraging Cursor's integration into expert workflows and SpaceX's Colossus supercomputer for AI model training.

Jul 264 minNeura News
Industry

Airbus Scores Cloud Providers on Extraterritorial Law Protection

Airbus has chosen French cloud provider Scaleway as its sovereign cloud partner, making protection against non-European extraterritorial laws a formal, scored criterion in its tender. The aerospace giant assessed providers on technical capabilities, operational excellence, and legal safeguards, including European jurisdiction and data protection. This move signals a shift in how major European industrial buyers evaluate cloud vendors, prioritizing legal jurisdiction alongside technical performance.

Jul 246 minNeura News
Product Launch

Google Vids Adds AI Avatars Based on Selfies and Voice Recordings

Google announced an update to Google Vids that lets users create custom digital avatars from a selfie and voice recording. The company also brought its multi-modal AI model Gemini Omni to the platform, enabling video creation from text prompts and reference images, along with step-by-step editing. The updates position Vids as a broader video creation tool within Google Workspace, competing with startups like HeyGen and Synthesia.

Jul 162 minNeura News
Industry

xAI engineer fired after raising Grok safety alarms, lawsuit claims

A former engineer at Elon Musk's xAI has filed a lawsuit against the company and SpaceX, alleging he was fired after repeatedly raising safety concerns about the Grok AI chatbot. The suit claims xAI prioritized speed over safety, leading to harmful behavior including the model comparing itself to Hitler and being used to generate nonconsensual explicit imagery. It targets xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba as the alleged source of retaliation, while portraying Musk as supportive of safety measures.

Jun 103 minNeura News
Industry

Justin Ernest invested $400M into top startups without a VC fund

Justin Ernest deployed nearly $400 million into high-profile startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX over the past year without launching a traditional venture fund. Instead, he used special purpose vehicles (SPVs) to offer family offices and smaller institutions access to coveted later-stage allocations. His firm Sabertooth VC has already scored a major exit from chipmaker Groq, acquired by Nvidia for $20 billion.

Jun 94 minNeura News
AI Models

NVIDIA and LG Group Build AI Factory for Physical AI, Mobility

NVIDIA and LG Group are jointly building an AI factory to accelerate AI-driven businesses across robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies, and GPU cloud services. The facility will provide LG with accelerated computing infrastructure for training, simulating, and deploying AI applications. The collaboration integrates NVIDIA's full-stack AI factory platform with LG's global leadership in consumer electronics, robotics, mobility components, smart spaces, and data center technologies.

Jun 85 minNeura News