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This Week in Startups · 2026-04-22 · 73 min · 14,695 words

SpaceX and Cursor team up to topple Claude Code | E2279

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If you like the AI coding tools you have today, you're going to like them a whole lot more down the road. As well as being hyper-competitive, Bitcent is also extremely cooperative. How much money do you need to raise to put together a compelling subnet pitch pre-launch? It's less about the amount as a fix total, it's more about validation.

You might be an amazing ML engineer, you might be an incredible full stack dev, but BitTens is adversarial and the miners are like very, very intense. They're going to tear you apart. You could get wiped out and lose your initial capital. This race is going to yield a lot of steel on steel sharpening, as we say. We actually have some news that we want to break right here on this week in startups with you guys.

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