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Whop brings full stack API to create and scale a business with a partnership across SpaceXAI products. Sep 03, 2026, 10:00 ET New integrations give Grok and Grok Bot users direct access to turn ideas into businesses and let Cursor developers direct Whop end-to-end business functions from inside coding environments NEW YORK, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Whop, the company building the first end-to-end API for running a business, announced a partnership with SpaceXAI and a new integration with Cursor that brings Whop's end-to-end API directly into AI-powered workflows. SpaceXAI has named Whop Grok's first end-to-end business connector, giving Grok users the ability to create and manage businesses through natural-language commands. The Cursor integration gives developers access to Whop's business infrastructure directly inside their coding workflow, making it possible to create businesses and scale faster than ever before. Additionally, the Whop connector in Grok Bot allows business operators to spin up AI teammates that work asynchronously over long periods of time with dedicated roles and recurring tasks. Once users connect their Whop accounts, Grok can perform the same actions available through Whop CLI for their authenticated business, including creating a website, creating and managing products, creating checkouts, deploying ads and even creating an LLC. Grok can also query a user's live business data, including revenue, ad performance, pixel data and card spend, to help users understand what's working and where to optimize their business next. Whop is also now available in the Cursor Marketplace under Payments, where developers can add the Whop connector directly to Cursor. The integration connects Cursor to Whop's business tools so developers can run businesses programmatically without leaving their coding environment. For developers building a new product in Cursor, enabling payments and more through Whop's API becomes as simple as adding the Whop integration from the Marketplace. "It is now possible to create businesses at the speed of thought. Whop centralizes your website, your payments, and your distribution, so you can just focus on the ideas," said Steven Schwartz, CEO and Co-founder of Whop. "We are focused on integrating directly with the AI surfaces where people work to decrease the time from idea to income." These integrations build on Whop's end-to-end API, including products like Whop CLI and MCP. Using simple language prompts, business owners can create products, manage payments and run other core operations. The SpaceXAI and Cursor integrations advance Whop's mission to provide everyone with a pathway to earning sustainable income and builds on the company's recent launches of Whop CLI and Whop Cards, as well as growing API partnerships with Replit, Poke, Cal.com, and more. The Whop connector for Grok is available now. Users can create a free Whop account at whop.com, then visit grok.com/connectors, select Whop, and authorize their account. Whop can be integrated with Grok Bot as well by searching the Plugins tab or asking a Bot to authorize Whop. The Whop plugin for Cursor is available now through the Cursor Marketplace and can be added directly inside Cursor. A new business on Whop can now start in a Grok or Grok Bot conversation or directly inside a Cursor build. About Whop Whop is a financial technology company building tools to deliver everyone a sustainable income. Whop centralizes core business primitives: website, products, payments, customer acquisition, and a wallet. A ramping product velocity led by pioneers of internet markets equips a wide range of business operators across industries like services, platforms, and ecommerce. Every element of Whop is exposed via public API endpoints that users can call to run their businesses end-to-end. Today, people on Whop earn over $5 billion annually across 145 countries. For more information, visit whop.com SOURCE Whop

A 52-year-old Mississippi farmer faces elon musk's data-center push. A SpaceXAI-backed buildout of massive data centers in Southaven, Mississippi, near the Tennessee border is rattling nearby residents with round-the-clock noise from gas turbines and fears of toxic emissions. The NAACP is pursuing legal action against SpaceXAI subsidiary MZX Tech, while a community petition has gathered more than 1,400 signatures as families report worsening asthma. Key takeaways. * SpaceXAI's 69 gas turbines sparked noise and pollution fears near Southaven homes. * NAACP legal action and 1,400 petition signatures are mounting pressure on MZX Tech. * SpaceXAI plans to replace 69 temporary turbines with 41 permanent structures. On the edge of Southaven, Mississippi, where family acreage still carries four generations of decisions, a new neighbor has moved in: SpaceXAI's data-center buildout near the Tennessee line. For 52-year-old farmer Krystal Polk, the tradeoffs are no longer abstract, with gas turbines running around the clock and a soundscape she likens to being boxed in by planes heading for the airport. Residents say the air is changing too, and the Polk family's asthma has become part of the project's real-world cost. Now the fight is spreading beyond property lines, with the NAACP suing SpaceXAI's subsidiary MZX Tech and a petition that has topped 1,400 signatures. A state-of-the-art tech hub, a struggling community. Along the Mississippi-Tennessee line, a quiet stretch of Southaven has become a front-row seat to America's AI infrastructure buildout. A project tied to SpaceXAI, described locally as a major data center installation, is bringing industrial-scale power generation and round-the-clock operations into a residential farming area. The promise is more compute. The daily reality, neighbors say, is constant noise and worsening air. What's striking is how fast "AI capacity" turns physical: fuel deliveries, construction crews, and turbines that never seem to rest. Residents describe the sound as a persistent low roar, the kind that seeps into sleep and conversation. For a community that prized stillness and space, the new baseline feels like living beside infrastructure built for somewhere else. Krystal Polk's land, and the cost of proximity. At the center is Krystal Polk, a 52-year-old farmer whose family has held roughly 2.5 acres across 4 generations. She told CBS News the noise resembles an airport that never quite takes off. The land is more than a parcel, she argues, it is a hard-won foothold in a region where property ownership has long been uneven. Polk says the family's health has deteriorated as the site has expanded, including more frequent asthma-related episodes. Neighbors echo similar complaints, linking the changes to heavier air pollution and continuous operation. When your home is your livelihood, how do you measure the loss of a place that no longer feels livable? Legal pressure and a community that won't stay quiet. Organizing has accelerated. The NAACP and other groups have pursued legal action against MZX Tech, described as a subsidiary tied to the project, alleging negligence around air and noise impacts. A petition calling for stronger environmental practices has drawn 1,400 plus signatures, according to local organizers. The company has pointed to mitigation plans, including investments in noise-reducing barriers. Residents say those steps have not matched the scale of the problem, especially with operations continuing day and night. The fight is becoming a familiar American story: communities learning, in real time, how to challenge the machinery behind the cloud. From "temporary" turbines to permanent change. One detail keeps coming up in local conversations: the energy setup. Reports describe 69 temporary gas turbines that are expected to be replaced by 41 permanent structures, a shift that may reduce some strain but also signals long-term commitment. Independent analyses cited by advocates warn that air-quality risks can remain significant near residential areas. Meanwhile, some farmers say they are facing pressure to sell, with real estate interests circling land near the development. SpaceXAI has also leaned on connections to national-security AI work as part of its posture, complicating the path for local challenges. For Polk, it is not a symbolic debate about technology. It is a bid to keep a home, and a family history, from being priced out by the servers next door. Yesterday Greed Last Week Greed Last Month Fear How do you feel about the market today?

Coder and SpaceXAI collaborate to bring agentic coding inside the world's most regulated enterprises. Coder Agent Relay lets banks, government agencies, and global enterprises run Cursor's cloud agents entirely on their own infrastructure, opening a market that vendor-hosted tools have never been able to serve. AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 02, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Coder today announced Coder Agent Relay, a self-hosted execution environment for cloud coding agents, with SpaceXAI as its launch partner. Cursor Cloud Agents can now run inside Coder workspaces on infrastructure the customer already operates. Developers keep the Cursor experience they know - app, web, and mobile - while Cursor continues to run the agent loop, including inference and planning. Tool calls execute in Coder environments on the customer's network, so source code, secrets, and internal services stay on machines they control. The market AI coding has not been able to reach Demand for AI coding agents inside large enterprises has exploded, and adoption in regulated industries hasn't kept pace, but not for the reason most people assume. Developers in these organizations want the same tools everyone else has. The blocker is the deployment model. Banks, defense agencies, government institutions, and global enterprises operate under requirements that vendor-hosted tools can't satisfy: source code needs controlled access, execution environments need security and governance that prevent data exfiltration, and every action needs to be auditable. Those requirements have kept the best AI coding tools out of the environments that stand to gain the most from them. Gartner projects that 80% of enterprise software engineers will need to upskill for generative AI by 2027. In the most regulated sectors, security and compliance review still decide which tools ever reach a developer. That is precisely the market Coder opens. Coder is the self-hosted infrastructure the world's most demanding organizations already trust to run development inside their own walls. Pairing that foundation with SpaceXAI's agentic experience turns a market that has been closed to vendor-hosted AI tools into one the two companies can finally enter together. AI needs an operating layer The modern enterprise stack runs in layers: application, data, compute. AI fits none of them. It touches all three and belongs to none, which is why organizations everywhere hit the same wall the moment AI moves from pilots into production. The AI Operating Layer is the layer AI requires: where AI runs inside the organization, on its own infrastructure, under its own policies, visible to its own teams. Built right, it enforces five things: data stays inside the boundary, every task sees only what it was granted, only approved models run, every action leaves a record, and spend is capped before it accumulates. That is what ends the trade-off AI programs keep being forced into, speed or safety. Teams adopt whatever tools make them fastest, agents work with real autonomy, and the layer underneath holds. The collaboration extends Coder's ability to deliver: Cursor's agents now execute within the enterprise-controlled governed environments, bringing autonomous development to the industries where the layer matters most. "Enterprises never rejected AI agents. They rejected the deployment model. The model was never the bottleneck. What has kept this work out of production is everything that comes after the pilot: where the code runs, who has access, what the agent can reach, and what record exists afterward. Those are infrastructure questions, and Coder was built to answer them. Cursor builds a coding experience developers love. We give it the ground to run on inside a bank, an agency, or a defense program," said Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder. What Coder Agent Relay delivers The collaboration pairs a joint go-to-market motion with a direct product integration that gives enterprises greater security, governance, and control over cloud-hosted coding agents. Each Coder workspace can start a Cursor worker that opens an outbound connection to Cursor. Platform teams can provision and scale those workspaces the same way they already manage developer environments, so regulated organizations can deploy Cloud Agents at scale next to private code and custom hardware without giving up Cursor's product surface or the security and standardization of Coder workspaces. * Your perimeter, your rules. Workspaces run on the customer's cloud, VPC, or on-premises environment. Code does not leave, and network egress policy is set once by the platform team and enforced uniformly across every workspace, developer or agent. Air-gapped deployment is available where no external access is acceptable. * Boundaries by architecture, not by trust. Agent environments are sandboxed, ephemeral, and scoped to a single task. A prompt injection that would push an agent toward unauthorized resources is blocked at the environment layer, not left to the model to refuse. * Policy as infrastructure. Approved models, permitted data sources, and available resources are defined once at the environment level and inherited by every workspace that follows, without per-team reconfiguration. * A complete record. Every run produces a log of what the agent accessed, executed, changed, and was blocked from doing, so compliance reporting for any time window does not have to be reconstructed by hand. "Engineering teams want to build with Cursor. Enterprise security policies require that sensitive information not leave its own infrastructure. Coder provides those teams a path to run Cursor inside environments they fully control, giving developers the experience they want while maintaining the security controls they need," said Toni Adams, Sr Director, Partnerships at SpaceXAI. The foundation for enterprise AI development SpaceXAI is the first of several partnerships Coder is building around a simple idea: the industry's best AI coding tools should run inside any organization, on any infrastructure, without the organization giving up control to get them. SpaceXAI is the first agent provider with Agent Relay, and the integration is designed to extend self-hosted execution to more over time. Enterprises have been here before. When cloud moved infrastructure out of the building, companies stood up platform teams to govern how it was provisioned, secured, and paid for. AI is forcing the same mandate now, with a twist: much of the work is coming back inside the organization's own walls. The principle hasn't changed; only the technology has. Coder is where enterprises build the layer it runs on. Availability Coder Agent Relay for Cursor is currently in private preview with design partners. If security requirements have kept Cursor out of reach, visit coder.com/cursor for docs and more information about bringing it inside your enterprise. About Coder Coder is the AI Operating Layer for the enterprise: self-hosted, model- and cloud-agnostic infrastructure that runs AI inside the organization's own environment, under its own policies, and in full view of its own teams. Global 2000 enterprises and government agencies use Coder to give developers and autonomous agents one governed workspace, moving source code off laptops and onto centrally managed infrastructure that platform teams can secure, audit, and scale. With more than 125,000 GitHub stars and trusted by the world's most regulated organizations, Coder is built for the agentic era. Learn more at coder.com.