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May 7, 2026, 6:55 AM

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xAI:
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.
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.
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic “to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity”; Musk called Anthropic “evil” and “misanthropic”  —  In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk's xAI.
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,” …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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