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This Week in AI: Claude Goes Dark, SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B (opens in new tab)

This Week in AI: June 12–18, 2026 Six days. That's how long two of Anthropic's most capable models have been offline because of a single letter from the Commerce Department. In the same six days, SpaceX bought a code editor for $60 billion, OpenAI's real financials leaked and they're worse than anyone guessed, and GitHub got so overloaded by AI agents that Microsoft had to borrow servers from Amazon to keep it online. Buckle up. Here's the week. The 60-second version 🔌 A government order took...

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