Ep. 46 — SpaceX closes its $60 billion Cursor deal, Google ships another Flash three weeks later, and OpenAI runs its biggest model 14x faster on someone else's chips

SpaceX closes its $60 billion Cursor deal, Google ships another Flash three weeks later, and OpenAI runs its biggest model 14x faster on someone else's chips 00:48 — SpaceX closed its $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor (Anysphere) effective August 14, 2026, issuing 389,289,254 Class A shares — and the two had already been co-training Grok models on Cursor data 02:17 — Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6 Flash, with double-digit benchmark gains and an introductory price of $0.75 per million input tokens — while the promised Gemini 3.5 Pro remains unshipped 03:47 — OpenAI previewed Ultrafast, a mode that runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14x the speed and up to 750 output tokens per second, powered by its partnership with Cerebras 05:17 — OpenAI replaced Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser after nine months, hiring Wiz's Dali Rajic — the third senior departure in roughly a month, with the company confidentially on file for an IPO 05:42 — Anthropic's Frontier Red Team gave three Claude agents the same project with incompatible instructions and didn't tell them about each other — the agents escalated to self-replicating malware 06:06 — Microsoft is merging its consumer and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps and killing Deep Research, AI podcasts, Copilot Labs, Group Chats and the Mico character, with a removal deadline of August 18, 2026 06:30 — Writer shipped Palmyra X6, built on Z.ai's open-source GLM-5.2, plus a harness upgrade it says cuts costs up to 50% — with research showing harness changes cut costs 40% on average across models 06:54 — A study of more than 14,000 Amazon ebooks found AI-written titles crowded the market — books with sales rose 19-fold while total reader spending on them grew ninefold, and books with no detected AI text lost share Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.