Sixty billion for a cursor

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Goldfish — A Mac AI that stays quiet until you press Option, then shows up already knowing what you've been working on across every app. Joel Edholm calls it contextmaxxing — the context is always loaded, you never explain the project twice.

Invoko — An AI desktop helper you pull up beside anything on your screen. It watches what you're doing and answers questions about it, or handles tasks across apps. Ranked #2 today, and the "little hand on your Mac" tagline is doing real work.

GitHits — Indexes your open-source dependencies so your AI coding agent can actually read them. Before GitHits, agents hit an unfamiliar npm package and started guessing. Now they can inspect the real implementation. One CLI command to init.

agentbrowse — Turns any website into a CLI for your AI agent: open, click, fill, log in, read as clean markdown. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Windsurf. Agents are good in a terminal. This makes the web work the same way.

Glint — Shows your Claude Code session live: active tool, token spend, current plan, subagents, context window. Sits in the menu bar, floating near the notch, or beside the Dock. Reads from ~/.claude locally, nothing leaves your machine.

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Sixty billion for a cursor

SpaceX is acquiring Anysphere — the company behind Cursor — in an all-stock deal worth $60 billion. The announcement came today, days after SpaceX's blockbuster IPO. Cursor crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue last November. SpaceX is paying 60x that. This is not a financial bet. It's a statement about where the AI war is being fought.

The war is being fought in the IDE. OpenAI has GitHub Copilot through Microsoft. Anthropic has Claude Code. Google has Gemini Code Assist. And now SpaceX — a rocket company that went public last week — has Cursor. Every major AI player either has a coding tool or is acquiring one, because the coding interface is where developers spend their days and where models prove their usefulness in the most direct, measurable way.

The SpaceX angle is the part that takes a moment to process. SpaceX pre-negotiated the option in April: pay $10 billion for a collaborative arrangement, or $60 billion to acquire outright. They chose the acquisition. That decision was made before the IPO closed, meaning SpaceX went public already knowing its first major move would be a $60B all-stock bet on AI coding. The IPO wasn't just a liquidity event. It was the mechanism for making this deal.

What it means for Cursor users is the obvious question, and nobody has a clean answer yet. Cursor has been Anthropic-aligned in practice — Claude models power a lot of what it does. Whether that changes under SpaceX ownership is the most important technical question in the deal. Elon Musk runs xAI. xAI builds Grok.

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