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SPACEX TO ACQUIRE THE AI CODING STARTUP CURSOR FOR $60 BILLION

SpaceX is buying AI startup Cursor for $60 billion worth of stock. Cursor, which has a popular AI coding tool that has experienced explosive growth since the company's founding in 2022, crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue in November. SpaceX has yet to provide investors with details on Cursor's customer list, momentum, or revenue. The merger is expected to close during the third quarter, subject to requisite regulatory approvals.

APPLE PLANS CAMERA AIRPODS ALONGSIDE UPGRADED FOLDABLE IPHONE IN 2027

Apple's camera-equipped AirPods are scheduled to launch in late 2027. The device will be released around the same time as the foldable iPhone and a 20th anniversary iPhone model. All three products have reached advanced stages of development. Apple intends the release to be its biggest wave of new products yet.

STARTUP BACKED BY EX-GOOGLE CEO DEBUTS ROBOT, LG PARTNERSHIP

Genesis AI, a startup backed by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has unveiled a general-purpose robot called Eno. The robot can reason, adapt, and own outcomes beyond predefined tasks. Genesis AI is working with LG Group's consulting and services arm to deploy the robot to industrial customers by the end of the year. The startup is currently raising funds to finance its next steps.

SNAP UNVEILS $2,195 AR GLASSES AS CEO EVAN SPIEGEL BETS ON POST-SMARTPHONE FUTURE

Snap's Specs, at $2,195 with a $200 refundable deposit, are expected to ship later this year in the US, UK, and France. The augmented reality glasses bring digital visuals into a user's field of vision, creating a new way to use computing in shared experiences in the real world. Snap's earlier attempt at a similar product, the $130 camera only Spectacles that debuted in 2016, never became a hit. Meta has more recently found some success with its Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and Google plans to launch AI-powered glasses developed together with Samsung.

AMAZON S3 ANNOTATIONS: ATTACH RICH, QUERYABLE CONTEXT DIRECTLY TO YOUR OBJECTS

AWS has a new metadata capability for Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) that enables users to attach rich, large-scale business context directly to their objects. The annotations feature allows users to store up to 1,000 named annotations per object, each up to 1 MB in size, in flexible formats like JSON, XML, YAML, or plain text. Annotations can be modified or deleted at any time without rewriting objects. The feature is available now in all AWS regions.

WHY IS META DESTROYING ITS ENGINEERING ORGANIZATION?

Meta has been known over the last two decades for being a unique, high-performance engineering organization. It had a 'move-fast-and-break-things' culture where engineers were empowered to do good work, focus on impact, and balance business interests with solid engineering. This has all changed in the past few weeks. This post looks at how bad things have become since April, what's happened, what's going through the minds of leadership, and the other factors causing the organization to demolish a proven, successful engineering culture in the most ruthlessly efficient way possible.

LEAKED FINANCIAL DOCS SHOW OPENAI IS LOSING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YEAR

Audited financial statements obtained by an independent journalist show that OpenAI's reported revenue grew from $3.7 billion in 2024 to $13.07 billion in 2025. However, its expenses grew from $7.81 billion in 2024 to $19.18 billion in 2025. These numbers reflect the high costs OpenAI has incurred in training new models. The losses point to a concerning direction for a company that is telling investors that it hopes to be profitable by 2030.

ANTHROPIC, TRUMP OFFICIALS SEEK DEAL ON RESTORING POWERFUL MODEL ACCESS

Anthropic and Trump administration officials are still in talks to resolve the security concerns that pushed the White House to restrict access to its latest models. Both parties are working quickly to resolve the issue. The White House is under pressure to show it can responsibly oversee the rapidly developing AI industry. The latest issue stems from a workaround to Fable's guardrails discovered by Amazon researchers.

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REVIEWS HAVE BECOME EXPENSIVE, REWRITES HAVE BECOME CHEAP

Preparation is more valuable, and the cost of iterating is lower.

APPLE ADDS KEYLOGGER TO IOS APP STORE FOR TARGETED ADVERTISING: TIED TO YOUR ACCOUNT AND UNENCRYPTED

The iOS App Store now records every tap users make (and a lot of other information) and then sends it unencrypted to Apple, with all information fully tied to user accounts.

AWS ANNOUNCES AWS BLOCKS, AN OPEN-SOURCE FRAMEWORK FOR COMPOSING APPLICATION BACKENDS ON AWS (PREVIEW)

AWS Blocks is an open-source TypeScript framework for application developers who want backend capabilities on AWS that removes the need to learn infrastructure tools.

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APPLE IS ABOUT TO MAKE HIDE MY EMAIL USELESS

Both Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases will soon be issued on the @private.icloud.com subdomain, making it easier to ban them.

AI AND THE GREAT CMS UNBUNDLING

AI is unbundling creation from control, making CMS more important wherever content is shared, reused, approved, or trusted across systems.

ANDROID 17 STARTS HITTING PIXEL PHONES AND WATCHES TODAY

Android 17 adds a small set of features and lays the groundwork for the future.