The week’s dominant storyline was consolidation: SpaceX swallowed Cursor in a $60-billion megadeal while Jeff Bezos and Salesforce wrote multibillion-dollar checks of their own. Running underneath it all was a sharper tension between AI labs and Washington — the US government forced Anthropic to switch off its most advanced models — even as Apple finally shipped its long-promised AI Siri and the price war for AI users began in earnest.
1. SpaceX buys Cursor maker Anysphere for $60 billion
Elon Musk’s SpaceX agreed to acquire Anysphere, the startup behind the AI coding agent Cursor, for $60 billion in an all-stock deal that folds one of the fastest-growing enterprise AI tools into xAI. The move signals that AI coding has become the first place businesses reliably pay for AI — and that the industry is consolidating fast around a handful of trillion-dollar players.
2. US order forces Anthropic to disable its most advanced AI models
Anthropic said it must “abruptly disable” its top Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all customers after the US government issued an export-control directive barring foreign nationals’ access, citing a possible jailbreak that could surface software vulnerabilities. For any business building on frontier models, it’s a stark reminder that model access can now be revoked overnight on national-security grounds.
3. Apple unveils its long-awaited AI Siri overhaul at WWDC, powered by Google Gemini
At WWDC 2026 Apple revealed a rebuilt, more conversational Siri — housed in its own app and running on Google’s Gemini models under the hood — alongside new Apple Intelligence features across Photos, Messages, and Shortcuts. After two years of playing catch-up, Apple is betting on partnership over in-house models to bring agentic AI to its billion-plus devices.
4. Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion to build an ‘artificial general engineer’
Prometheus, the physical-AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos, raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to build AI that can design real-world hardware like jet engines and accelerate drug discovery. It’s one of the largest rounds ever for a young company and pushes the AI race beyond software into heavy engineering and manufacturing.
5. Salesforce to buy AI customer-service platform Fin for $3.6 billion
Salesforce signed a deal to acquire Fin — the AI customer-service agent formerly known as Intercom — for about $3.6 billion, its biggest bet yet on agentic software and the largest agentic customer-experience deal to date. It puts a proven AI support agent and a 30,000-company customer base directly inside the world’s leading CRM.
6. Meta rolls out ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook, drawing on public posts across its platforms
Meta launched a wave of new Facebook AI features led by “AI Mode,” a search-style assistant that pulls from billions of public posts across its platforms. It’s Meta’s latest push to catch up in consumer AI — and a fresh flashpoint in the debate over using people’s public content as training and answer data.
7. Mistral in talks to raise about €3 billion at a €20 billion valuation
French AI lab Mistral is reportedly in discussions to raise roughly €3 billion at a valuation near €20 billion, cementing its place as Europe’s leading independent challenger to OpenAI and Anthropic. The raise underscores how sovereign-AI ambitions and government backing are reshaping where capital flows outside the US.
8. Anthropic’s Amodei calls for FAA-style AI rules and a fund for displaced workers
In a new essay, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged governments to regulate powerful AI like aviation safety and proposed taxing AI companies to help workers whose jobs the technology eliminates. The unusual call from a frontier lab signals that workforce disruption and oversight are moving from abstract debate to active policy questions for every adopter.
9. OpenAI weighs steep price cuts as an AI price war with rivals heats up
OpenAI is considering sharp cuts to its token prices in anticipation of an intensifying battle for users with Anthropic and Google, which fired its own opening shot in the AI subscription price wars. For businesses, the fight points to falling per-use AI costs — and a reminder to keep pricing flexibility in vendor contracts.
10. Canada’s OpenText invests €105 million to expand agentic AI and sovereign cloud
Waterloo, Ontario-based OpenText announced a €105-million investment to create 400 jobs in Ireland, expanding its agentic AI and sovereign-cloud offerings for European enterprises. The move shows a major Canadian software firm leaning into the sovereign-AI demand that governments and regulated industries are increasingly prioritizing.
