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🚀 SpaceX is Acquiring Cursor For $60Bn in Stock
🦾Plus: 🤖 Microsoft eyes Chinese AI for Copilot
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In today's edition: Here’s roundup of self-improving harnesses, agent-focused Git, and big capital moves 👇
🔄 Self-Harness - Harnesses that improve themselves
🧭Cursor announces Origin, a git hosting platform built for AI agents
📐Spec-Driven Development with Claude Code
🚀 SpaceX is Acquiring Cursor For $60Bn in Stock
🚀 Z AI’s powerful open-weights model nears the frontier
💡 AI Tutorial:How to turn any PDF into a Claude Skill
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Just days after SpaceX’s historic IPO, SpaceX has agreed to acquire AI coding startup Cursor in a $60 billion stock deal. The deal is meant to help SpaceX’s AI division (built on SpaceX’s xAI merger earlier this year) catch up to the major AI labs. The acquisition is likely to close in Q3 of this year.
One brand shipped 30+ landing pages last week. No developers.
A DTC brand briefed Viktor inside Slack: one landing page per Meta ad group, mapped to a different headline variant. He wrote the code, deployed each page to their subdomain, posted the URLs back in #marketing, and now monitors performance across the set.
Their content team uses him to draft email flows, generate creative variants, and audit Klaviyo segments every Friday. Their growth lead uses him to catch spend anomalies before the day starts.
20,000+ teams now have the same setup: one AI employee across every marketing tool. A teammate who ships work in Slack and Microsoft Teams. SOC 2 certified.
"Not only have we caught up on several months of work, we are automating manual tasks and expanding to things previously not possible at scale." Jesse, Director, Torque King 4x4.
10 open-source libraries changed this by rewriting how training happens. Custom kernels, smarter memory management, and efficient algorithms make it possible to fine-tune frontier models on consumer GPUs.
AI operating rules are usually hand-built by humans, causing bottlenecks as models rapidly evolve. Researchers found that letting AI analyze its own mistakes to automatically upgrade these rules drastically improves performance without human intervention.
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Cursor just announced Origin, their own git hosting platform, and it's a direct shot at GitHub. Here's the quick backstory: Cursor (the AI code editor) acquired Graphite, a code review tool, and now they're stacking a full hosting layer on top. The goal is to own the entire coding pipeline, write in Cursor, review with Graphite, host on Origin.
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👨💻 Data Tools, Libraries
Thor.ai captures the blockers, decisions, and commitments that never make it into your tools — straight from Slack threads and meetings
NVIDIA Warp (GitHub Repo)
NVIDIA Warp is a Python framework for writing high-performance simulation and graphics code. It takes regular Python functions and JIT compiles them to efficient kernel code that can run on the CPU or GPU.
GPT-2 From Scratch in MLX (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a Python script that defines and trains GPT-2 from scratch. The model is trained on around 1 million characters from Shakespeare.
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Chinese AI lab Z AI just released GLM-5.2, a new open-weights model that is competitive with GPT 5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 across a series of coding benchmarks, marking the closest an open model has come to the top closed systems. 5.2 gains a 1M token context window with strong long-horizon task capabilities, along with two effort modes (High, Max) for tougher jobs.
Microsoft is testing DeepSeek V4 as Copilot's cheaper engine. Copilot Cowork is shifting to token-based pricing, the same pay-per-use billing Codex and Claude Code already use. Microsoft is trialing a fine-tuned DeepSeek V4, an open-source Chinese model, on Azure to undercut its costly OpenAI and Anthropic models.
Apple's camera-equipped AirPods are scheduled to launch in late 2027. The device will be released around the same time as the foldable iPhone and a 20th anniversary iPhone model. All three products have reached advanced stages of development. Apple intends the release to be its biggest wave of new products yet.
xAI has been running unpermitted methane turbines in Southaven Mississippi to power its $20 billion Colossus 2 data center across the line in Memphis. The fleet can push out 495 megawatts and releases formaldehyde and smog near homes schools and churches. The Justice Department stepped in late Monday to dismiss the case saying enforcement of federal law belongs to the government and not to private groups.
8 levels of context maturity in AI-native engineering
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AI Tutorial
How to turn any PDF into a Claude Skill
“Use the skill-creator to build a skill from the uploaded PDF. Activate when I ask Claude to [exact task]. Core steps: [paste]. Rules: [paste]. Mistakes to avoid: [paste]. Questions used: [paste]. Success looks like: [paste]. Do not use for: [2–3 unrelated tasks]. Ask me anything missing before generating the SKILL.md, then score the skill out of 10.”
Test the skill with different prompts, unrelated requests, and incomplete inputs to ensure it activates correctly and asks for clarification when needed.
Upload it in Claude through Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload
Now use your slash command whenever you want Claude to apply the PDF method.
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