By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-05-08 13:00:00
Money, and desperation, sure can pave over a lot of ill will. This week’s example: Anthropic signed a mammoth deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use all of the computing capacity of SpaceX’s Colossus data center full of AI chips.
Yes, that Elon Musk, the one who until this week liked to call Anthropic Misanthropic, its Claude model racist and, oh, its logo looks like an anal sphincter. But as much as Anthropic is desperate for more infrastructure for its ridiculous growth, so too is Musk for some income from a massive data center that his own xAI model Grok apparently doesn’t need — because, well, not enough people are using it — so he can take SpaceX public without quite such a big cash burn that might scare off investors. Still, it wouldn’t be surprising to see this marriage of convenience on the rocks at some point.
Anthropic and now OpenAI are doubling down on selling to enterprises, as both this week did joint-venture deals with a raft of private equity…
