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Beijing's NDRC ordered Meta to unwind a $2B acquisition already signed, integrated, and announced. Combined with travel bans on Manus co-founders, the move sets new precedent for cross-border AI M&A and forces every Western acquirer to reprice Chinese-founded AI startup risk.
Google scanned 2–3B pages a month and saw a 32% surge in indirect prompt-injection attacks Nov 2025–Feb 2026. Real payloads include fully specified PayPal transfers planted in invisible HTML, designed for AI agents with payment access.
Alchemy CEO Nikil Viswanathan argues crypto's always-on, programmable, identity-light design fits AI agents far better than legacy finance, with humans guiding the strategy and agents running the engine.
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says AI agents need programmable money, with roughly $48M flowing through the x402 payments standard so far and about 95% of those transactions settling on Base.
Anthropic ran a closed pilot called Project Deal where AI agents bought and sold from each other on behalf of 69 employees, settling 186 trades and over $4,000 in volume across four model setups.
Era's $9M seed, led by Abstract Ventures and BoxGroup with Collaborative Fund and Mozilla Ventures, funds a platform that lets hardware makers ship AI devices using 130+ LLMs from 14 providers.
Sierra's first M&A folds Fragment's transformer-based semantic routing into its customer-service agent platform, with both Paris co-founders joining. A signal of AI-agent consolidation in Europe.
SpaceX has offered $60 billion for Cursor plus a $10 billion upfront AI collaboration fee, preempting Cursor's planned $50 billion fundraise hours before it was due to close.
Alameda bought 5% of Cursor's parent Anysphere for $200K in 2022. The FTX bankruptcy estate sold the stake in 2023 for the same $200K — worth roughly $3B at SpaceX's new $60B buyout offer.
OpenAI introduced Workspace Agents — persistent cloud-based assistants in ChatGPT that run on schedules or triggers, connect to external apps, and retain context across projects.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai announced capex of $175–$185 billion for 2026 to power autonomous AI agents, nearly 6× the company's 2022 spend.
Under the partnership, SpaceX can buy the AI coding startup later in 2026 for $60B. If it walks, Cursor collects $10B for the joint work. Context: Colossus (1M H100-equivalent) meets Cursor's dev distribution.