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Cursor

AI-powered coding IDE and agent platform

cursor.com

Founded year: 2022
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 800–1,000
Industry: Software

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Latest news about Cursor

In short: Cursor was acquired by SpaceX for $60 billion and launched the Grok 4.6 model while navigating security risks and a split from OpenAI.

Company announcements

September 10 Cursor

Cursor launches Projects for larger work

The new feature uses cloud agents to maintain context, delegate tasks, and run recurring work automatically across shared environments.

August 18 Cursor

Cursor introduces Continuity, a scalable Git storage system

The blog details how Continuity uses a write-ahead log in object storage to solve scalability and consistency issues found in traditional systems like GitHub Spokes.

August 17 Cursor

Cursor launches Origin code hosting in early beta

The new platform supports repo creation, GitHub sync, pull requests, and agent integrations on paid plans.

August 14 Cursor

Cursor has been acquired by SpaceX

Completion follows the April partnership, granting Cursor access to SpaceX's massive GPU fleet to develop stronger, more economical models like Grok 4.6.

Media coverage

September 10 Yahoo Finance

Sam Altman Doesn’t Trust Elon Musk’s Cursor, Musk Says He Couldn’t Care Less. Here’s Why He Is Right.

The long feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman has moved from the courtroom to the products themselves. After SpaceX (SPCX) recently acquired Cursor parent...

September 3 Techmeme

Sources: Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at the start of 2026; OpenAI estimated in spring that Cursor would bring in $1B+ in annualized revenue for OpenAI

Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Sources: Cursor was a top-five OpenAI customer at the start of 2026; OpenAI estimated in spring that Cursor would bring in...

August 29 WIRED

OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk

OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon...

August 28 CyberNews

Russian hackers unleashed Cursor AI agent to infiltrate nearly a dozen corporate networks

New research exposes the inner workings of Aur0ra – a Russian-speaking hacker group that has been using SpaceX’s Cursor AI to ...

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