OpenAI Will Cut Off Cursor by November 12 After SpaceX's Reported $60B Acquisition Triggers a Change-of-Control Clause
OpenAI is reportedly winding down its model contract with Cursor's parent, Anysphere, after a change-of-control provision was triggered by a $60 billion SpaceX acquisition — pulling the Musk-OpenAI feud directly into the developer tooling ecosystem.
OpenAI intends to end its model partnership with Cursor, one of the most widely used AI coding tools, and the reason has less to do with product and more to do with who now owns it. According to @ivke2006, OpenAI will wind down its model contract with Cursor by November 12, following a reported $60 billion SpaceX acquisition of Anysphere, Cursor's parent company. The mechanism is a change-of-control clause — a contractual provision that lets one party exit when the other changes ownership.
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