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What to know about Cursor, the AI coding startup SpaceX is buying for $60 billion

Newly public SpaceX is taking advantage of a previous agreement that gave it the option to acquire Cursor, whose engineers have already been working closely with the company.

Conservatives pitch legalizing some psychedelics with bill to revamp Canada's drug laws

Conservative MP Corey Tochor introduced legislation on Tuesday to legalize prescribing psychedelics like psilocybin, which researchers and patients say can effectively treat some mental health disorders.

SpaceX Options Trading Starts Strong as Traders Chase Musk Mania

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. options were among the most heavily traded among US companies on Tuesday, helping to spur an early 17% gain in the rocket maker in its third day of trading.

US lawmakers fight Trump administration cuts to $386m ocean monitoring program: ‘supreme stupidity’

Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator, joins Democrats in bid to stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative US politics live – latest updates A group of Democratic senators and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House…

SpaceX is buying AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion

SpaceX is buying Cursor to bolster the capabilities of xAI.

China sets space environment monitoring satellite into orbit

The spacecraft was delivered to the orbit by the Long March-3B launch vehicle

Iran war ‘stark wake-up call’ for fossil fuel- dependent Southeast Asia: IEA report

The Iran war has exposed major risks for Southeast Asia that could cost the region billions of dollars, if it does not diversify sources of energy more quickly, according to an International Energy Agency (IEA) report released on Tuesday…

Meet Pawan Kumar Chandana, ex-ISRO scientist behind India’s largest private rocket factory

Asteroid named after Jannik Sinner

'Like a comet or celestial body, he represents a shining beacon for new generations'

Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX soar past Amazon

Shares of Elon Musk's SpaceX soared more than 14% on Tuesday, lifting its value higher than Amazon and briefly Microsoft just days after its debut.

A quantum state that lasts forever may finally be within our grasp

Defying the laws of thermodynamics, experiments are beginning to show that a quantum state that is frozen forever might not be impossible. If we can tame it, it could unlock whole new types of matter

Traditional Home Insurance Is Collapsing. Here’s What Could Fill the Gap

A new, AI-assisted model of insurance is quietly exploding in disaster-prone areas—and may be coming for FEMA too. Is it the answer to climate change, or a trap?