SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion

June 16, 2026 Robert Hart

Elon Musk with big green arrow pointing up and money falling from the sky.

Days after its massive IPO, SpaceX says it is spending $60 billion to buy Cursor - a bet designed to help Elon Musk's sprawling rocket / AI / social media behemoth win over lucrative enterprise customers and close the gap with AI rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI.

The takeover was not entirely unexpected: SpaceX announced a peculiar arrangement in April in which it agreed to either acquire the programming platform for $60 billion or pay a $10 billion breakup fee. The company had been holding off completing the deal while going public.

In an SEC filing, SpaceX said it expects the deal to close during the third quarter of 2026.

Musk has pr …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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