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17 Jun

SpaceX’s $60B Cursor Deal Reveals Antitrust’s Blind Spot

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SpaceX Isn't a Rocket Company Anymore. That Should Scare Us. A freshly public SpaceX just deployed its IPO windfall to acquire Cursor, an AI coding platform, for $60 billion in stock. The speed and scale of the move—closing days after the IPO—signals something larger than a strategic partnership. It's a flex of vertical integration ambition that our current antitrust framework has no real answer for. We're watching the blueprint for a new kind of tech monopoly unfold in real time, and regulators are still arguing about Amazon's warehouse deals. Photo by SpaceX on Unsplash The Rocket Company That Became a…

06 Jun

NASA’s SpaceX Dependency Becomes a Safety Issue

hightechz.net0 CommentsOpinionsinfrastructure, iss, nasa, policy, space, spacex

NASA's SpaceX Dependency Is Now a Safety Issue When astronauts had to shelter inside a SpaceX Dragon capsule last week because of air leaks in the International Space Station, nobody called it what it was: a contingency that should never have had to exist. Per TechCrunch, Roscosmos discovered new leaks in the Russian service module, forcing a temporary evacuation of parts of the station. The fix wasn't a NASA system kicking in. It wasn't a backup from a partner agency with decades of independent capability. It was a commercial spacecraft—one that exists primarily to ferry cargo and crew for profit—doing…