{"id":1013377,"date":"2026-06-10T07:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013377"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T02:36:01","slug":"ai-coding-startup-cursor-courted-by-spacex-picks-london-as-european-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/10\/ai-coding-startup-cursor-courted-by-spacex-picks-london-as-european-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"AI coding startup Cursor, courted by SpaceX, picks London as European hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI coding startup Cursor, which SpaceX has an option to buy for $60 billion, will open its European headquarters in London and hire some 200 staff, an executive told Reuters, as demand in the region grows for tools that automate software development. <\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, which is readying for a closely watched IPO this week, said in April \u200cit had \u2060secured an \u2060option to either acquire code-generation startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion for their new partnership, as it pushes deeper into the lucrative market for AI developer tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI coding startup Cursor, which SpaceX has an option to buy for $60 billion, will open its European headquarters in London and hire some 200 staff, an executive told Reuters, as demand in the region grows for tools that automate software development. Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX, which is readying for a closely watched IPO this week, said in April \u200cit had \u2060secured an \u2060option to either acquire code-generation startup Cursor for $60 billion later this year, or pay $10 billion for their new partnership, as it pushes deeper into the lucrative market for AI developer tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013377","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013407,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013377\/revisions\/1013407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}