MoneyThe story, in brief
Anthropic cozies up to Elon Musk, IBM makes its case to win in AI, and Cerebras has big IPO plans
Anthropic just signed a massive compute deal with SpaceX's Colossus—the same Elon Musk who called them 'Misanthropic' weeks ago.
The KeyNews take
Why it matters
Major AI labs are now competing aggressively for compute access through strategic partnerships with infrastructure providers. This signals both the intensity of the compute crunch and a shift in how leading AI companies secure their scaling resources.
The key facts
5 to knowAnthropic signed deal with SpaceX to access Colossus data center's full AI chip computing capacity
Deal involves Elon Musk despite previous public friction (Musk had criticized Anthropic)
IBM positioning itself competitively in enterprise AI market
Cerebras planning IPO
Published May 8, 2026
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Publisher excerpt: 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…