The probe followed concerns that employees' use of the tool accidentally exposed customer and supplier data to external systems. The company's internal review sought to determine if this business information was inadvertently ingested as training data by SpaceX's AI unit.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
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Cursor Probes Leak of Confidential Client Data to SpaceX AI
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Engineers at the AI-powered code editor Cursor conducted an internal review to see if private information from users and partners leaked into the AI division of SpaceX. The investigation focused on whether confidential data was transmitted during testing of the Grok Bot, a report by The Information stated. An internal lawyer warned that using such data to train AI models could create a "huge trust problem" for the company.
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