A Rocket Company Just Bought the AI That Writes Europe’s Code
SpaceX has agreed to acquire Anysphere, the maker of the AI coding tool Cursor, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal — widely described as the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup ever recorded. It lands days after SpaceX’s $75 billion IPO, the biggest in history, and folds one of the most widely used developer tools into Elon Musk’s xAI empire. With two-thirds of the Fortune 500 using Cursor, the question for Europe is uncomfortable: the AI that writes a growing share of the world’s code is now owned by the same handful of American giants. gafam.ai’s European analysis.