Microsoft Hit With $2.8B UK Cloud Lawsuit, Meta Monitors Employees to Train AI, Firefox Fixes 271 AI-Found Bugs, and a $60B Cursor Deal?

This episode covers four tech stories: a UK tribunal allowing a £2.1B ($2.8B) lawsuit accusing Microsoft of overcharging around 60,000 UK businesses for Windows Server licensing on AWS and Google Cloud while offering more favorable terms on Azure; Meta rolling out monitoring software on US employees’ company computers to record mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and sometimes screenshots from approved apps to train AI computer-using agents, with no opt-out on company laptops; Mozilla’s Firefox 150 release fixing 271 vulnerabilities found with help from Anthropic’s Mythos Preview, signaling faster AI-driven bug discovery and new pressures on open-source maintainers; and SpaceX securing an option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for up to $60B (or a $10B partnership), framed as strategic positioning tied to Musk’s ecosystem, xAI compute, and IPO narrative.

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00:00 Today’s Tech Rundown
00:32 Sponsor Message Meter
00:51 Microsoft UK Cloud Lawsuit
03:34 Meta Employee Monitoring for AI
07:13 AI Finds Firefox Vulnerabilities
10:42 SpaceX and Cursor IPO Math
13:57 Closing and Sponsor Thanks