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OpenAI just severed ties with Cursor, its once top customer and major revenue driver, after SpaceX’s Elon Musk acquired the AI coding tool for $60 billion — a move OpenAI says it can’t trust. With its own IPO looming, OpenAI is prioritizing investor stability over short-term gains, even though losing Cursor could hurt its developer relationships and revenue. The split follows years of partnership, including early investment, and comes amid allegations Musk used OpenAI’s models to train xAI. Despite the breakup, Cursor remains open to third-party AI — Anthropic’s Claude models are already confirmed to stay on board, showing how fast alliances shift in the AI race.

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