OpenAI dropped billion-dollar client Cursor to avoid Musk, Wired reports

Wired reports OpenAI terminated its deal with Cursor—formerly a top-five client expected to bring over $1 billion in annualized revenue—after SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Cursor would have tied OpenAI to Elon Musk.

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