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Cursor Staff Investigated Whether Confidential Data Reached SpaceX for AI Training

15 October 2026 at 14:00

In the weeks before SpaceX’s AI unit in August introduced Grok Bot, its version of a personal AI agent, engineers at Cursor discovered a potential problem.

Cursor, the AI coding startup SpaceX was then in the process of acquiring, was developing Grok Bot, and as part of that process, employees across Cursor were using the tool extensively for testing and as a part of their everyday work. In late July, engineers raised concerns that Cursor might have sent data from that internal testingβ€”potentially including confidential information about its customers, suppliers and business partnersβ€”to SpaceX’s AI unit. One of Cursor’s lawyers warned that if word got out that the company was using the data for training, that could cause a β€œhuge trust problem,” according to internal communications viewed by The Information.

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