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SpaceX closes $60B Cursor deal; Nvidia trims OpenAI bet — 2026-08-16 00:00
SpaceX closes its $60 billion Cursor acquisition, Nvidia shrinks its OpenAI data-center bet as Anthropic revenue jumps, and AI-generated books flood Amazon.
- SpaceX officially closes its $60 billion Cursor acquisition — AI coding startup Cursor is now part of SpaceX, gaining access to what it calls "the largest fleet of GPUs in the world." The deal was first floated in April, when SpaceX secured a $60 billion option to acquire the company. TechCrunch · Aug 15
- Nvidia shrinks its OpenAI bet as Anthropic revenue jumps — Nvidia cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned Ohio data center nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed back on the risk. Meanwhile, Anthropic's revenue jumped from $4.7 billion to $11.5 billion in a single quarter. The Decoder · Aug 15
- AI-generated books flood Amazon, squeezing human authors — AI books now make up 20% of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12% of sales, and a new study finds revenue per book is dropping for human-written titles in seven of eight genres. The Decoder · Aug 15
- World Labs unveils a robot-training simulation engine — Fei-Fei Li's startup generates thousands of virtual task variations from a single real-world task, and the trained controllers ran for an hour each on five different robot platforms without human intervention. The Decoder · Aug 15
- Anthropic explains how Claude's watermarking works — Using Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text, Anthropic says light editing probably won't remove the mark but a complete rewrite will, as it complies with the EU AI Act's transparency requirements. TechCrunch · Aug 15
- Benchmark shows frontier models still see poorly — Moonshot AI's PerceptionBench finds no frontier model reaches 60% accuracy on visual perception, and many apparent "reasoning" errors actually happen at the image-reading stage. The Decoder · Aug 15
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