Cursor, Crawlers, Copilot, and Control

The Verge reported that SpaceX agreed to buy Anysphere, the company behind Cursor. A related SEC filing described an all-stock transaction based on an implied Cursor equity value of $60 billion.

The filing described the transaction value and stock structure, but did not publish a detailed integration plan for Cursor inside SpaceX. Anysphere’s public product remains Cursor, its AI coding environment.

Featured source: The Verge , SEC filing .

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Salesforce, Fox, and Respond.io Announce Deals

Salesforce signed a definitive agreement to acquire Fin for about $3.6 billion. Fox and Roku announced a roughly $22 billion transaction around streaming distribution and advertising, and Respond.io said it raised $62.5 million for AI-assisted customer conversations.

Filed from: Salesforce , Fox and Roku , Respond.io .

AWS Adds Paid AI Crawler Access to WAF

AWS added AI traffic monetization to WAF Bot Control. Its documentation describes a payment flow at the CloudFront edge, and Stripe said the integration lets sites charge AI agents for access.

Filed from: AWS , AWS documentation , Stripe .

Anthropic Disables Models and India Restricts Telegram

Anthropic said a U.S. government directive required it to disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5. TechCrunch reported that India temporarily restricted Telegram ahead of the NEET-UG re-test over exam-fraud concerns; the Anthropic directive and Indian order were not public at publication.

Filed from: Anthropic , TechCrunch , Financial Times .

Microsoft Patches Copilot SearchLeak

Ars Technica covered Varonis research on SearchLeak, a Microsoft 365 Copilot Enterprise Search vulnerability chain patched as CVE-2026-42824. Varonis said the chain could expose data from files, messages, calendar items, and indexed content through enterprise search.

Filed from: Ars Technica , Varonis , Microsoft Security Response Center .

Datasette Adds Approved SQL Execution

Simon Willison released datasette-agent 0.3a0 with approved write-SQL execution through Datasette permission checks. GitHub published a CC0 multilingual repository metadata dataset for AI research.

Filed from: Simon Willison , GitHub , GitHub repository .

Meta Pushes Public Posts Into AI Answers

Meta announced Facebook AI Mode, a search surface that can use public content across its apps. TechCrunch covered the expansion of public Facebook material into answer generation, including posts, reels, and comments.

Filed from: Meta , TechCrunch .

Threads Adds Feed Controls

Meta said Threads reached 500 million monthly active users. The company also introduced Your Algo, private feed controls, and expanded community features.

Filed from: Meta , TechCrunch .

iRhythm Says Products Kept Running After Data Theft

The Register reported on iRhythm’s disclosure of unauthorized activity involving third-party-hosted business applications. The company said attackers used social engineering and claimed theft of proprietary data, protected health information, and personal information, while products, clinical systems, medical devices, patient safety, manufacturing, distribution, and financial reporting systems were not affected.

Filed from: The Register , iRhythm .

Spotify Reports More Listening Outside English

Rest of World reported that more than half of Spotify listening is now in non-English languages as the company expands across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Spotify also published Loud & Clear economics material and an investor-day recap.

Filed from: Rest of World , Spotify Loud & Clear , Spotify Investor Day recap .