SpaceX Acquires Cursor After IPO

Welcome to another edition of AI PlanetX.

SpaceX acquires Cursor; OpenAI profitability concerns rise as Nadella warns on AI power.

• Hottest AI News

• Top AI & SaaS Tools

• AI Tutorial: Compare AI Models with Fusion

• Top AI & Tech News

• AI Art Spotlight

• Prompt of the Day: Magazine Prompt for Slides

• Featured AI Video

• Weekly Growth Playbooks to Scale Smarter

Hottest AI News

SpaceX

SpaceX Buys Cursor For $60B As Its AI Coding Strategy Expands Post IPO

SpaceX just made one of the biggest AI moves of 2026. Days after its record IPO, the company agreed to buy Cursor maker Anysphere for $60B in stock, making AI coding a core part of its next story.

Details:

• The deal is expected to close in Q3, subject to approvals. Cursor was already one of the fastest-growing AI coding tools, and was close to a $50B private valuation before this

• SpaceX wants Cursor to strengthen its AI push around xAI, Grok, and enterprise coding tools. The move gives it product, developer usage, and a stronger position against OpenAI and Anthropic

• The timing matters. SpaceX shares surged after IPO, pushing its valuation past Amazon and above $2.7T. Paying in stock lets SpaceX use its market value to buy AI scale

This is no longer just a space story. SpaceX is trying to connect rockets, AI coding, compute, and software into one bigger business.

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OpenAI

OpenAI 2025 Losses Raise Bigger Questions About AI Profitability

OpenAI’s 2025 numbers are much bigger than most people expected. Reported audited documents say revenue grew fast, but losses grew even faster, showing how expensive AI has become.

Details:

• In 2024, OpenAI made $3.7B in revenue, spent $12.4B, and had a net loss of about $5.09B. Most of the spending came from research, development, and running the business

• In 2025, revenue jumped to $13.07B, but total costs reached $34B. The loss attributable to OpenAI rose to $38.53 billion, partly due to restructuring-related accounting changes

• The documents also say SoftBank paid OpenAI $867M and Microsoft paid $303M. OpenAI paid Microsoft $17.2B in expenses and ended the year with over $50B in assets

The big question is no longer whether AI demand is real. It is whether OpenAI can turn that demand into a sustainable business before costs keep rising.

Top AI & SaaS Tools

• Inkfluence (Life-time Deal): Turns a single prompt into a fully formatted, publish-ready book with chapters, cover design, and export options for PDF, EPUB, and DOCX

• SocialEcho 2.0: AI social media copilot that helps teams and agents create, adapt, publish, manage, and track multi-brand social campaigns through official APIs

• Sonic-3.5 and Ink-2: Sonic-3.5 is Cartesia’s text-to-speech streaming model for generating speech, and Ink-2 is its speech-to-text streaming model for transcribing speech [F-R-E-E]

• PeakRoutine: Personalized health coaching platform that uses biomarker and lifestyle data to create tailored, proactive recommendations based on a user’s own biology [F-R-E-E to Try]

• Goldfish: AI tool that privately remembers your work across apps and helps you write, summarize, rewrite, and recall context directly in any text field [F-R-E-E]

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AI Tutorial

How to Use OpenRouter Fusion to Compare AI Models

Different AI models are good at different tasks. This guide shows you how to run one prompt across several models and build your own simple model cheat sheet.

1. Create OpenRouter account

   Create an OpenRouter account and go to OpenRouter Fusion. This is where you can test one prompt across multiple AI models in one place.

2. Pick payment setup

   Choose how you want to pay for usage. You can use:

   • OpenRouter credits

   • API keys you already pay for

   Use credits if you want the simplest setup.

3. Choose models

   Select the models you want to compare. For example:

   • Opus 4.8

   • GPT 5.5

   • Grok

   The goal is to find best model for your exact task.

4. Run one prompt

   Use one benchmark prompt per test. Keep the prompt identical for every model. Do not change the wording, tone, or details. This makes the comparison fair.

5. Use real work prompt

   Test with a practical prompt.

   Example:

   “You are helping a small coaching business decide whether to replace weekly team calls with async written updates. Write a short memo with 3 benefits, 3 risks, and a 2-week rollout plan. Keep it practical.”

6. Compare responses

   Read the outputs side by side and see:

   • Which one follows the prompt best

   • Which one gives the clearest answer

   • Which one gives the most useful plan

7. Build cheat sheet

   Write down which model wins for each task.

   Example:

   • Strategy memo: Model A

   • Social post: Model B

   • Technical explanation: Model C

   After a few tests, you will know which model to use. About 10 comparisons cost around 40 cents.

Note: Use the same prompt every time, but also keep the same context. If one model gets extra background and another does not, the test is no longer fair.

Top AI & Tech News

• Satya Nadella says too much AI power in a few companies could hurt whole industries, so AI should help businesses keep their own knowledge and value

• Facebook is launching an AI-powered search mode that answers questions using public posts, Reels, and Marketplace data, with privacy and accuracy concerns raised

• Over 100 cybersecurity leaders and researchers urged the U.S. to lift the export ban on Anthropic’s Fable 5, arguing it restricts defenders more than attackers

• Genesis AI unveiled Eno, a non-humanoid robot with wheels and human-like hands, backed by $105 million and aimed first at logistics and manufacturing customers by end-2026

AI Art Spotlight

Create Your Own Product Photo Like This Using the Prompt Below:

High-speed photography of [PRODUCT] in the exact microsecond of exploding mid-air. The main body of the [PRODUCT] is actively fracturing and bursting outward from the center. [COLOR/S] hitting the [PRODUCT] and shards, pitch-black background, frozen motion, highly detailed, modern artistic feel.

Model: Nano Banana 2

Prompt of the Day

Magazine Prompt for Full Page Slides

This prompt turns your product copy into a bold, single-file horizontal magazine built in HTML (not a slideshow), producing full-bleed, full-viewport pages that feel more visual and polished than stacked slides. It creates 10 pages — Cover, Problem, Solution, Features, Audience, Competition, Origin Story, Launch/Traction, Tech, and Back Cover — each with 100vw × 100vh layouts.

Featured AI Video

I Made Opus 4.8 and Fable 5 Build the Same App (Raw Results)

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