Ep. 61 — OpenAI cuts Cursor off after SpaceX buys it — the day model access became leverage

OpenAI cuts Cursor off after SpaceX buys it — the day model access became leverage 00:48 — OpenAI is cutting Cursor off from its models on November 12, and it says the reason is that it does not trust SpaceX to honor a contract 02:17 — The clause that fired was written six months before it was needed: SpaceX closed a $60 billion all-stock purchase of Cursor on August 14, and the two had been co-training models on Cursor's data since spring 03:47 — In July, Musk said cutting off a rival 'in a way that hurt them badly' was 'not my style' — and the broader market is already pricing model supply as a dependency worth buying your way out of Daily Prompt with Archer & Iris.