SpaceX confirmed on June 16 a binding $60 billion all-stock agreement to acquire Anysphere, the company behind the AI coding assistant Cursor, days after SpaceX’s IPO (TechCrunch, CNBC). The deal was first structured in April with a $10 billion break-up clause and is expected to close in the third quarter pending regulatory approvals (Bloomberg). Cursor’s annualized recurring revenue reached $4 billion in early June 2026, up from $2 billion in February (TechCrunch). SpaceX has positioned the acquisition as strengthening its AI division, which is built around xAI following the two companies’ merger earlier in 2026 (CNBC).
Also on June 16, OpenAI published details of Deployment Simulation, a pre-release evaluation method that replays de-identified real user conversations through a candidate model to catch behavioral drift and reward hacking before a model reaches production (OpenAI). OpenAI validated the approach across roughly 1.3 million conversations spanning GPT-5 Thinking through GPT-5.4, collected between August 2025 and March 2026 (OpenAI). Separately, Google’s Gemini CLI stops serving free, Pro, and Ultra tier users effective today, June 18, redirecting them to the new Antigravity CLI (Google Developers Blog, GitHub Discussion). Antigravity CLI is built in Go and supports asynchronous multi-agent workflows, but unlike Gemini CLI - which shipped under the Apache 2.0 license - it is closed source (The Register); the announcement thread on GitHub received 263 downvotes against 6 upvotes (GitHub Discussion). Enterprise users on Google Cloud Standard or Enterprise licenses retain Gemini CLI access (GitHub Discussion).