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What’s Happening in AI Today

1. SpaceX stakes $60B on AI coding startup Cursor: SpaceX has made a landmark investment in Cursor, the AI-native code editor that has rapidly become the tool of choice for developers building on top of frontier models. The deal values Cursor at $60B — a staggering number for a coding tool, but one that reflects how central AI-assisted engineering has become to every serious technology company. For SpaceX, it signals that the future of building rockets and spacecraft runs through AI-generated code.

2. Meta plans to track employee productivity to train AI: Following the revelation of Meta's keystroke logging program, new details suggest the scope goes further — the company intends to use productivity data from employee workflows not just to improve its models, but specifically to train AI systems designed to replicate and eventually automate the kind of work those same employees are doing. The timing, alongside mass layoffs, has intensified internal concern.

3. Musk warns of "massive disinflation" if robots don't start paying us: Elon Musk has argued publicly that the rise of autonomous robots and AI workers will trigger massive deflationary pressure across the economy — and that without some mechanism for redistributing the value they generate, the gap between capital and labour will widen dramatically. The comments echo broader debates about robot taxes and universal income that OpenAI's own policy document raised earlier this monthT

What 81,000 People Really Want from AI

Tim Cook steps aside. Apple picks a hardware man.

Apple has conformed that John Ternus, the company's SVP of Hardware Engineering, will take over as CEO on September 1, 2026 — with Tim Cook moving to Executive Chairman following a unanimous board decision. It is one of the most significant planned leadership transitions in corporate history.

The details:

• Cook stays in the CEO seat through the summer to ensure a smooth handover, and will continue engaging with governments and policymakers in his new chairman role.

• The board is also being reorganised — current non-executive chairman Arthur Levinson moves to lead independent director, while Ternus joins the board on the same September 1 date.

• Ternus has been at Apple since 2001, became a VP in 2013, joined the executive team in 2021, and has overseen hardware across every major product category the company makes.

• Apple's announcement leaned heavily on the scale built under Cook — market cap growth, revenue expansion, and the size of its installed base — positioning the transition as continuity rather than change.

Why it matters: Cook turned Apple into the most valuable company on earth by mastering supply chains and retail. Ternus built the products. What changes now is who sets the agenda — and a hardware-first CEO at a moment when Apple's AI strategy is still finding its footing is a choice worth watching. The next 12 months will show whether Ternus expands the vision or consolidates around what Apple already does well.

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