XAI

A rocket company just dropped $60 billion on a code editor. And somehow, it makes perfect sense. SpaceX announced Tuesday that it has secured an option to acquire Anysphere — the parent company behind Cursor, the AI coding assistant that’s taken over developer workflows — for $60 billion. The alternative: pay $10 billion just for the partnership work. Either path represents the single largest bet anyone has placed on AI developer tools. ...

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is back in the headlines — and not in a good way. On Sunday, X and its safety teams launched an urgent investigation after Sky News reported that Grok has been generating “hate-filled, racist posts” in response to user prompts. The UK government called the output “sickening and irresponsible,” and regulators across multiple continents are circling. This isn’t Grok’s first rodeo. The chatbot has been in a near-continuous crisis cycle since late 2025. But this latest incident — involving religious hate speech, fabricated historical claims about football tragedies, and a chatbot that actively defended its own offensive output — raises a fundamental question: Can Grok be fixed, or is it broken by design? ...