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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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| 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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Forums: Hacker News and r/ClaudeAI
| 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 … | 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%+ after hours — Snap shares dropped about 4% in extended trading after the company reported first-quarter earnings on Wednesday … | Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Google releases Multi-Token Prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 models, which use a form of speculative decoding to guess future tokens for faster inference — Google launched its Gemma 4 open models this spring, promising a new level of power and performance for local AI.
More: The Keyword, Google Cloud Blog, TestingCatalog, and The Decoder
| Financial Times: |
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $13.2B vs. $13.3B est., gross bookings up 25% to $53.7B vs. $52.9B est., forecasts Q2 bookings above est.; UBER jumps 8.5% — Ride-hailing company posts weaker than expected first-quarter revenues but issues optimistic outlook| 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 … | Neil J Kanatt / Reuters: |
Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, GTV up 13% to $10.29B, and orders up 10%, compared with a 16% growth a year earlier; CART drops 8.18% — Instacart (CART.O) on Wednesday forecast second-quarter gross transaction value above Wall Street expectations and said shoppers …
More: Instacart, PYMNTS, and Wall Street Journal
| Koyena Das / Reuters: |
DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $4.04B, vs. $4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11%+ after hours — DoorDash (DASH.O) on Wednesday forecast second-quarter marketplace gross order value above analysts' estimates … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings — The ongoing march of AI features continues to go on, whether you want it to or not, and a recent update to Google Chrome probably installed …
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X: @pirat_nation, @k1rallik, @evanluthra, @9to5google, and @amctrade89
| Michael Acton / Financial Times: |
Arm reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.5B, says AGI CPU demand will drive $2B in sales in 2027 and 2028, over 2x its prior guidance; ARM jumps 11%+ after hours — SoftBank-backed UK group says its first in-house semiconductor has drawn strong demand — Arm shares jumped 10 per cent … | Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google updates AI Mode and AI Overviews to add “a preview of perspectives” from firsthand sources like social media and Reddit, presented as “Expert Advice” — The new AI Mode and AI Overviews updates bring in perspectives from firsthand sources like social media and web forums.
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X: @thefox, @rmstein, and @immasiddx
LinkedIn: Nick Fox, Elizabeth Reid, Marie Haynes, and Sulina Connal
Forums: r/redditstock, r/artificial, and Slashdot
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Doc: SpaceX proposes spending $55B to begin building a Terafab chip facility in Grimes County, Texas, and estimates total capital expenditures could hit $119B — Elon Musk's SpaceX estimated a chip factory it plans to build along with Tesla Inc. will cost at least $55 billion …
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X: @alex_intel_ and @jukan05
Forums: r/intelstock and r/wallstreetbets
| Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg: |
Google DeepMind takes a minority stake in the maker of Eve Online, a multiplayer role playing game set in outer space, and plans to train its tech on the game — Artificial intelligence research is plunging further into video games. — Alphabet Inc.'s AI lab, Google DeepMind …
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X: @amoufarek, @xlr8harder, @deryatr_, and @googledeepmind
LinkedIn: Alex Holt-Kulapalan and Cecilia D'Anastasio
| Reuters: |
Sources: DeepSeek is in talks to raise $3B to $4B led by China's national AI fund, valuing DeepSeek at up to $50B — Chinese AI startup DeepSeek could be valued at up to $50 billion in its maiden fundraising drive, three sources said, as the large language model builder seeks to reverse … | Frederic Lardinois / The New Stack: |
Anthropic updates Claude Managed Agents with “dreaming”, a scheduled process that reviews recent work and updates memory, available in research preview — In April, Anthropic launched the public beta of Managed Agents, its platform for running AI agents on its infrastructure.
More: Claude, Wired, Ars Technica, TestingCatalog, XDA Developers, Android Authority, ZDNET, and Business Insider
X: @claudedevs, @unusual_whales, and @claudedevs
| Dana Goldstein / New York Times: |
Study: US schools with strict cellphone bans in class have not seen higher test scores on average so far, but students reported a greater sense of well-being — Cellphone bans got devices out of students' hands, according to the first large study. But behavior and academics have not improved, at least so far.
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Bluesky: @justinhendrix and @biblioracle
| Hannah Levitt / Bloomberg: |
Morgan Stanley rolls out a crypto trading pilot on E*Trade, charging less than Coinbase, Robinhood, and Charles Schwab, ahead of a wider launch later in 2026 — Morgan Stanley is rolling out cryptocurrency trading on its E*Trade platform with a dig at rivals: cheaper pricing.| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
SCOTUS rejects Apple's request to temporarily block a judicial order in the Epic Games lawsuit that found Apple in violation of court-mandated App Store changes — WASHINGTON, May 6 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday Apple's (AAPL.O) request to temporarily block …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is considering delaying or dropping its 2030 goal of matching its hourly power use with renewable energy purchases, amid the data center boom — Microsoft Corp. may shelve one of the industry's most ambitious clean-energy targets as it tries to remove hurdles that could hold …
More: Seattle Business Journal, TechCrunch, iTnews, Axios, Mashable, Latitude Media, and Reuters
LinkedIn: Brody Ford and Jason Hastie
| Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: |
OpenAI partners with Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Intel researchers to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to help scale compute — OpenAI is getting creative to deal with the industry's imminent compute crunch. … The protocol, which has been in the works for two years …
More: OpenAI, SiliconANGLE, AMD, Microsoft Tech Community, NVIDIA, The Decoder, Data Center Knowledge, and ServeTheHome
LinkedIn: Nat Rubio-Licht, Yang Zhou, and Sachin Katti
| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
Corgi, which provides insurance for startups and uses AI to generate quotes, manage claims, and more, raised a $160M Series B led by TCV at a $1.3B valuation — Named after the company-owned dog, Corgi embodies the sometimes-absurd San Francisco startup scene. Now it's worth $1.3 billion, after raising $160 million.
More: TechCrunch, Corgi Insurance, and Dow Jones Newswires
X: @snowmaker, @hellbetterthnsf, @erikalee, @alexfellowsfund, @richardjnieva, @brian__gong, @km, @brookeleblanc, @fellows_fund, @km, @gaddipatiharsha, @nico_laqua, @brookeleblanc, @erikalee, @stevenl, @usecorgi, and @georgejeffersn. LinkedIn: Nico Laqua
| Nicholas G. Miller / Wall Street Journal: |
Nvidia invests $500M in Corning, which will grow its US optical connectivity capacity by 10x and expand its US fiber production capacity by 50%+; GLW jumps 12% — Corning will boost its U.S.-based optical connectivity manufacturing capacity by ten times — Nvidia is investing $500 million …
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
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| George Packer / The Atlantic: |
A profile of David Sacks, the White House's AI and crypto adviser since December 2024, who is ruthlessly devoted to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act — The courtship between Silicon Valley and MAGA was consummated on June 6, 2024, in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood …
More: Fortune and The Verge
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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 … | Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Crypto miner Hut 8 signs a lease worth $9.8B+ over 15 years to provide computing power to a “high-investment-grade company” at its Nueces County, Texas campus — Hut 8 Corp., a cryptocurrency miner that is shifting to developing artificial intelligence data center capacity … | Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
reMarkable Paper Pure review: the new $399 e-paper slate has a great display, responsiveness, and design, but no backlight or typing, and some software issues — rating : 8.3 / 10 — Class-leading handwriting - Better responsiveness — There's a lot riding on reMarkable's Paper Pure … | CNBC: |
Apple's R&D spending hit 10.3% of revenue in Q2, up from 7.6% in Q1 and 9% in Q2 2025, amid the AI boom; Q2 revenue rose 17% YoY, while R&D jumped 34% YoY — For the first time in at least 30 years, Apple is spending more than 10 cents of every dollar it brings in on research and development … Sponsor Posts
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