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Cursor Keeps Its Distance From xAI Despite Tie-Up

By · May 4, 2026 7:00am PDT
When Cursor agreed to a $60 billion conditional takeover offer from SpaceX last month—the purchase isn’t definite—some of Cursor’s rivals expected the coding startup to work with SpaceX’s xAI unit to develop new models, specifically for coding.That’s not happening anytime soon, apparently. Cursor doesn’t currently plan to codevelop coding models... When Cursor agreed to a $60 billion conditional takeover offer from SpaceX last month—the...
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Standard Intelligence Rides Neolab Fervor with Computer Use Model

By · Apr 30, 2026 7:00am PDT
Pedestrians in downtown San Francisco are used to seeing Waymos navigating the streets. But two months ago, people in the South Park neighborhood saw something new: a Toyota Rav4 driving around with a laptop propped on the dashboard. The laptop was running a new breed of AI model, known as a “computer use model,” from a two-year-old startup... Pedestrians in downtown San Francisco are used to seeing Waymos navigating the streets. But two...
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XAI Shows How Hard It Is to Use a Lot of GPUs at Once

By · Apr 29, 2026 7:05am PDT
AI developers have been desperately scrambling to get ahold of Nvidia server chips lately, as we wrote last week. When developers do get the graphics processing units, they’re under a lot of pressure to wring as much performance as possible from that expensive hardware.That’s easier said than done. Training AI models can be “bursty,” meaning... AI developers have been desperately scrambling to get ahold of Nvidia server chips lately, as we...
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Microsoft Dishes on AI Revenue; Google CEO Says ‘Agents’ Are Coming
By · Jan 31, 2024 7:00am PST
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Microsoft Dishes on AI Revenue; Google CEO Says ‘Agents’ Are Coming

By · Jan 31, 2024 7:00am PST
Microsoft investors tuned into the company’s earnings call with bated breath Tuesday night, looking to see how much its new AI products were boosting sales. Microsoft didn’t deliver an unequivocal blowout—revenue in the December quarter grew moderately faster, year over year, compared to the prior quarter’s growth—but positive signs abounded... Microsoft investors tuned into the company’s earnings call with bated breath Tuesday night,...