Tags: cloud computing

SpaceX has signed a lease with Anthropic for the full capacity of its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The early‑May 2026 deal gives Anthropic access to more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and over 300 megawatts of power, easing a near‑term compute crunch for the maker of Claude. SpaceX, which plans an IPO, turns idle infrastructure into revenue, while the arrangement underscores the growing importance of in‑house AI hardware as rivals such as xAI’s Grok scramble for resources. Read more

Akamai Technologies' stock had its best day in 22 years, rising 27% after the company announced a $1.8 billion, seven-year cloud deal with Anthropic, a leading AI provider. The contract is Akamai's largest ever and marks a significant pivot into AI infrastructure. Read more

Emails between senior Microsoft leaders, presented in the Elon Musk versus Sam Altman lawsuit, show the tech giant hesitated to pour additional funding into OpenAI as early as 2017. Executives questioned the lab’s progress toward artificial general intelligence and worried a funding shortfall could drive the AI startup to rival Amazon. The correspondence predates Microsoft’s landmark $1 billion investment in 2019, highlighting a cautious start to what would become one of tech’s most celebrated partnerships. Read more

Perplexity has opened its Personal Computer AI assistant to every macOS user, moving beyond the $200‑per‑month Max plan that previously limited access. The new macOS app lets users run everyday queries, manage attachments, and dictate text, while still tying usage to the credit limits of Pro and Max subscriptions. By integrating models like Gemini, Nano Banana and ChatGPT, the assistant handles tasks across local files, other apps, the web and Perplexity’s servers, positioning the company against competitors such as Claude and Apple’s upcoming AI‑enhanced Siri. Read more

Elon Musk's SpaceX has signed a data‑center agreement that grants Anthropic access to more than 200,000 Nvidia GPUs at the Colossus 1 supercomputer in Tennessee. The partnership, announced after Musk previously accused Anthropic of stealing training data, will boost capacity for the company's Claude Pro and Claude Max services and includes plans to explore gigawatt‑scale orbital AI compute. Anthropic responded by doubling usage limits for several products and listing other data‑center deals with Amazon, Google and Microsoft. The deal has drawn criticism from the NAACP, which alleges environmental harm to Black communities near the Tennessee facility. Read more

Anthropic announced three major upgrades to its Claude Managed Agents—Dreaming, Outcomes, and Multiagent Orchestration—along with public‑beta webhooks. The Dreaming feature runs between sessions, reviewing an agent’s past work to spot patterns and lock in improvements. Outcomes lets developers set quality rubrics that a separate grader enforces, while Multiagent Orchestration enables several Claude agents to collaborate on complex tasks. Available as a research preview on the Claude Platform, the enhancements aim to make AI agents more self‑improving and reliable for developers building long‑running workflows. Read more