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Pentagon AI Goes Live, SpaceX Buys Cursor & OpenAI IPO Slips to 2027
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The Pentagon's PSP 2 agent network moves from simulation to battlefield deployment, while SpaceX acquires Cursor for $60B and OpenAI's trillion-dollar IPO standoff creates a SoftBank financing crisis. Six stories shaping the AI landscape in under 20 minutes.
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The Pentagon's new AI agent network went live today, and it's the clearest signal yet that command-and-control is being fundamentally restructured around machine intelligence. The program is called PSP 2, part of the Department of Defense's Platform Scale Program.
While the Pentagon was moving AI into the field, SpaceX completed its acquisition of Cursor for sixty billion dollars in an all-stock deal. The signal here isn't just the price.
The IPO situation at OpenAI is getting harder to ignore. The listing has shifted from late twenty-twenty-six to twenty-twenty-seven.
On the security side, OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber, a specialized model built for vulnerability scanning. The numbers here matter.
This connects directly to the unresolved proof point from the other direction. A controlled NSA red-team exercise breached nearly all of Anthropic's classified system simulations in hours.
Two shorter signals worth tracking. Liquid AI released LFM 2.5, a two hundred and thirty million parameter model that topped AgentWorldBench, beating GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.8.
The threads to watch from here are straightforward. SoftBank's March twenty-twenty-seven bridge loan is the most concrete near-term forcing function in AI finance.
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