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SpaceX signs an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, and says Anthropic expressed interest in partnering for orbital compute capacity — SpaceXAI has signed an agreement with Anthropic to provide access to Colossus 1, one of the world's largest and fastest-deployed AI supercomputers.
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| Axios: |
Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use “all of the compute capacity” at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month — Anthropic said Wednesday it has struck a deal to gain access to compute capacity from Elon Musk's SpaceX …
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| Anthropic: |
Following its SpaceX deal, Anthropic doubles Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for paid plans and removes peak hours limit reduction for Pro and Max plans — We've agreed to a partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.
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| Carly Nairn / Courthouse News Service: |
Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI — “When the father of your babies starts a competitive effort and starts recruiting from OpenAI there is nothing to be done,” …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult — OpenAI's former CEO testified under oath that Altman lied to her. … Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, has testified under oath …
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Snap reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $1.53B, in line with est., and says it ended its $400M Perplexity deal announced in November; SNAP drops 4%+ pre-market — Snap shares dropped about 4% in extended trading after the company reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday …
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| Koyena Das / Reuters: |
DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $4.04B, below $4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11%+ pre-market — DoorDash (DASH.O) on Wednesday forecast second-quarter marketplace gross order value above analysts' estimates … | Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.5B and says AGI CPU demand will drive $2B in sales in 2027 and 2028, over 2x its guidance; ARM jumps 11%+ pre-market — SoftBank-backed UK group says its first in-house semiconductor has drawn strong demand — Arm on Wednesday said demand …
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| Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: |
Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, GTV up 13% YoY to $10.29B, and orders up 10%, compared with a 16% growth in Q1 2025; CART closed down 8.18% — Instacart (CART.O) on Wednesday forecast second-quarter gross transaction value above Wall Street expectations and said shoppers …
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| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been there since 2024 and users can “turn off and remove” it — The ongoing march of AI features continues to go on, whether you want it to or not, and a recent update …
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| Lingling Wei / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the US and China are considering recurring talks on AI security risks, with Scott Bessent leading the US side; Trump and Xi Jinping meet next week — Washington and Beijing recognize that powerful AI models could trigger crises neither side is prepared to manage
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic researchers detail “model spec midtraining”, which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training — Sara Price2, Samuel Marks2,†, Jon Kutasov2,† — 1Anthropic Fellows Program; 2Anthropic; †Equal advising
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| Sangmi Cha / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: South Korea's equity market overtakes Canada's as the world's seventh largest, driven by Samsung and SK Hynix, whose stocks have more than doubled YTD — South Korea's equity market has overtaken Canada's as the world's seventh largest, propelled by insatiable demand for chips powering artificial intelligence.
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Bengaluru-based Pronto, an on-demand home-help service, raised a $20M Series B extension from Lachy Groom at a $200M valuation, up from $100M in March — Lachy Groom, one of Silicon Valley's most closely watched solo investors, decided to back Indian startup Pronto just 20 minutes into his first meeting with its 24-year-old founder.
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| Naman Ramachandran / Variety: |
Amazon plans to merge MX Player into Prime Video in India, combining free and paid streaming catalogs on a single platform over the next few months — Amazon MX Player is being absorbed into Prime Video, combining India's free and paid streaming catalogs under a single platform.| Christopher Kuo / Wall Street Journal: |
FanDuel CEO Amy Howe departs after five years, succeeded by President Christian Genetski, as parent company Flutter reports MAUs fell 3% YoY to 14.4M in Q1 2026 — Howe presided over FanDuel during a boom in sports betting, even as the rise of prediction-market companies posed increasing competition
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| Diana Novak Jones / Reuters: |
Filing: Meta asks a judge to overturn the jury's verdict in the Los Angeles social media addiction trial or order a new trial, citing Section 230 protections — Meta Platforms (META.O) has asked a Los Angeles judge to throw out a jury's verdict finding the company liable for a woman's depression … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A US appeals court strikes down a 2023 FCC rule banning broadband access discrimination based on income, race, and more; Chair Brendan Carr welcomes the ruling — An appeals court today struck down federal rules that prohibit discrimination in access to broadband services, delivering a victory to telecom and cable lobby groups.
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| Farah Stockman / New York Times: |
Bristol Myers Squibb's Massachusetts facility boosted drug production volume for clinical and commercial use by ~40% with AI, a bright spot in US manufacturing — A Bristol Myers Squibb plant that makes cancer drugs was the only manufacturer in the U.S. recognized for innovation by the World Economic Forum this year.Sponsor Posts
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