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SpaceX bought Cursor. Fresh off its record IPO, Musk's SpaceX is buying Cursor parent Anysphere for $60 billion in an all-stock deal. Cursor was once one of Anthropic’s biggest customers, and its share of the AI-coding market has slid from 41% last June to about 26% in May as Anthropic took half the category itself. It seems SpaceX is betting on its massive amounts of compute to help Cursor and xAI retake some of that ground.

Washington pulled Anthropic's best models. Days after launch, the Trump administration's export-control directive forced Anthropic to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer. Anthropic calls the cited jailbreak narrow and notes defenders actually need the model; then again, it markets Mythos as dangerous in the wrong hands, and Amazon's Andy Jassy reportedly helped raise the alarm. Anthropic continues to shoot themselves in the foot as they talk about how dangerous their models are.

OpenAI caught a(nother) state AG investigation. A coalition led by New York subpoenaed OpenAI over its advertising, engagement tactics, model sycophancy, and handling of consumer and health data, plus its treatment of minors and seniors. OpenAI says it's cooperating but we all know this is poor timing for them as they barrel towards an IPO. Now they can add this lawsuit on top of the one from Florida and copyright cases already in flight.

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Railway put Docker in Sandboxes. The latest changelog preinstalls the Docker daemon and CLI in every sandbox, so an agent can run Postgres or Redis next to the code under test or build the exact image you ship to prod. Each sandbox is isolated with internet-only networking, which also makes it a safe place to run images you don't trust. The CLI adds sandbox checkpoints and port forwarding, and the TypeScript SDK gains a binary-safe sandbox.files API for reading and writing the filesystem without shelling out.

Vercel released Eve. Eve is an open-source, file-based agent framework now in public preview. The premise is that creating an agent is just creating a directory with durable execution, sandboxed compute, approvals, and evals built in. npx eve@latest init scaffolds one in under a minute, and deploys as a normal Vercel project.

Cloudflare One is now a set of skills. The Cloudflare One stack is two agent skill files that teach any agent to plan, deploy, and manage a Zero Trust setup. Paired with Cloudflare's code-mode MCP server, it can inspect a live account and make changes through curated workflows.

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