{"id":1005177,"date":"2026-04-27T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005177"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:33:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T06:03:59","slug":"microsoft-reportedly-explored-buying-cursor-as-spacex-secures-rights-to-acquire-the-ai-startup-for-60-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/microsoft-reportedly-explored-buying-cursor-as-spacex-secures-rights-to-acquire-the-ai-startup-for-60-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reportedly explored buying Cursor as SpaceX secures rights to acquire the AI startup for $60 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft reportedly explored acquiring AI coding startup Cursor before SpaceX secured the rights to acquire the company in a deal valued at $60 billion. According to a CNBC report, people familiar with the matter claim that Microsoft considered making a move as part of its broader efforts to expand its position in the growing market for AI development tools. However, the company ultimately decided not to proceed with the bid.<\/p>\n<p>This move is happening at a time of stiff competition in the AI code-generation tool market, with all players focusing on developing software assistants for developers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft reportedly explored acquiring AI coding startup Cursor before SpaceX secured the rights to acquire the company in a deal valued at $60 billion. According to a CNBC report, people familiar with the matter claim that Microsoft considered making a move as part of its broader efforts to expand its position in the growing market for AI development tools. However, the company ultimately decided not to proceed with the bid. This move is happening at a time of stiff competition in the AI code-generation tool market, with all players focusing on developing software assistants for developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005178,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005177\/revisions\/1005178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}