News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B. Parent comment

Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by tanseydavid on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:52PM (#48558189)
This Cold Fusion vid covers the "pivot" nicely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPIGu0anfAE

The video explains that it is spelled out in the prospectus that SpaceX is counting 70%-80% of their total addressable market to be AI related and only about 7%-8% to be space-related.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by andruby on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:33PM (#48558812)
I saw that too, and it's so depressing. SpaceX was pushing the envelope of "interplanetary" travel/species, and to see it being reduced to a 7-8% "side-quest" :-(
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by njovin on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @02:08PM (#48559458)
> was pushing the envelope of "interplanetary" travel/species

I don't think they were. All the Mars stuff is just dressed up version of The Boring Company - a distraction by Elon to better position his other interests.

There's no money in going to Mars and there's no reason to, from a financial perspective, and Elon doesn't care about anything beyond wealth and power.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by epsylon on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:58PM (#48559259)
> SpaceX was pushing the envelope of "interplanetary" travel/species

We already have a perfectly usable planet. It just need to be taken care of.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere f... by jpadkins on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @10:05AM (#48570756)
Why not N+1 planets? Too many extinction level possibilities outside of our control.
[ Parent | on HN ]