This Week in AI: Claude Goes Dark, SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60B

This Week in AI: June 12–18, 2026

Six days. That's how long two of Anthropic's most capable models have been offline because of a single letter from the Commerce Department. In the same six days, SpaceX bought a code editor for $60 billion, OpenAI's real financials leaked and they're worse than anyone guessed, and GitHub got so overloaded by AI agents that Microsoft had to borrow servers from Amazon to keep it online.

Buckle up. Here's the week.

The 60-second version

⏰ Gemini CLI dies today, June 18. If your scripts call gemini, go check them before your CI breaks.