{"id":204975,"date":"2026-04-22T21:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/microsoft-looked-at-buying-cursor-before-spacex-deal-sources-say\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:25:12","slug":"microsoft-looked-at-buying-cursor-before-spacex-deal-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/microsoft-looked-at-buying-cursor-before-spacex-deal-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft looked at buying Cursor before SpaceX deal, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/22\/microsoft-looked-at-buying-cursor-before-spacex-deal-sources-say.html\">Microsoft looked at buying Cursor before SpaceX deal, sources say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/22\/microsoft-looked-at-buying-cursor-before-spacex-deal-sources-say.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/22\/microsoft-looked-at-buying-cursor-before-spacex-deal-sources-say.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-22 21:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnbc.com\">www.cnbc.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft considered acquiring AI coding startup Cursor before SpaceX made a $60 billion deal to acquire the company.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft eventually decided not to proceed with the bid as it focuses on boosting its own AI tools, including GitHub Copilot, to compete in the booming AI market.<\/li>\n<li>Artificial intelligence coding tools are currently dominated by companies like Cursor, Anthropic, and OpenAI.<\/li>\n<li>SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, merged with his AI startup xAI in a deal valued at $1.25 trillion and plans to go public with the combined entity in a record IPO.<\/li>\n<li>The late announcement of the SpaceX-Cursor deal surprised prospective investors, as SpaceX had offered Cursor access to computing power prior to the deal.<\/li>\n<li>Despite Microsoft&#8217;s efforts, its stock price has dropped 10% this year, underperforming compared to broader market and hyperscaler peers.<\/li>\n<li>Competing AI coding services include GitHub Copilot with 4.7 million paying subscribers, and Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code that contributed to the company reaching $30 billion in annualized revenue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft looked at buying Cursor before SpaceX deal, sources say https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/22\/microsoft-looked-at-buying-cursor-before-spacex-deal-sources-say.html Publish Date: 2026-04-22 21:12:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/image.cnbcfm.com\/api\/v1\/image\/108295877-1776904195815-gettyimages-2262967294-20090101260225-99-646971.jpeg?v=1776904332&w=1920&h=1080","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-204975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204977,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204975\/revisions\/204977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}