Before SpaceX bought Cursor, the AI coding startup, Microsoft looked at it first. Our Kate Rooney scooped that story and has the details in today's tech check. Kate, why' they pass, Kelly.Well, we'll get to that. And that actually is sort of an unknown here. We know they passed.We're not exactly sure why or what the financials look like, but it does turn out that SpaceX was not the only company that wanted to buy this AI startup. We're talking about cursor. Sources now telling me that Microsoft did look at ...

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Google now getting aggressive in these AI talent wars, poaching the CEO and the top talent of coding startup Windsurf right after Open AAI called off its $3 billion acquisition of that startup. Dear DOSA has the latest in today's tech check. Morning De. Hey, morning Carl.So in the cutthroat world of AI, this was a knife twist. Open AAI lined up a $3 billion acquisition only to watch Google walk off with the talent. Now Windinsurf, as Carl mentioned, it's a buzzy AI coding startup.It was deep in acquisition ...