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The Sequence Radar #880: Last Week in AI: A $60B Cursor Deal, Google's Brain Drain, and Midjourney's Body Scanner

L2 · PractitionerIndustry & BusinessTheSequence· 6/21/2026

Practitioners need to understand how major corporate moves and talent shifts affect the AI tool landscape they rely on daily.

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This week's AI news includes SpaceX's $60B acquisition of Cursor code editor, major talent shifts with Noam Shazeer leaving Google for OpenAI and John Jumper moving to Anthropic, and Midjourney's surprising pivot into medical scanning technology. These developments signal that AI infrastructure is becoming strategic corporate assets and talent is consolidating around frontier AI companies.

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A week of really unexpected turns in the AI market.

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