The real winner of Cursor’s $60B acquisition won’t be AI coding assistants

When news broke that SpaceX would acquire Cursor’s parent company, Anysphere, in a reported $60 billion all-stock deal, most of the discussion centered around AI. This was another milestone and enormous valuation, and signal that AI is still bringing enormous disruption. Those reactions aren’t wrong but they can overshadow the bigger story. The real significance […]