TECH NEWS — FRIDAY, MAY 8, 2026 AI Goes Supersonic: Anthropic's Power Surge, OpenAI's Record Raise & the Open-Source Coding War Four major stories reshaping the technology landscape in the final days of the week. ⚡ Anthropic Taps SpaceX's Colossus — 300 MW of Compute and Counting BREAKING In one of the most significant infrastructure moves in AI history, Anthropic announced on May 6 that it has secured a deal to tap all available compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee — gaining immediate access to more than 300 megawatts of power. The move is a direct response to an extraordinary period of growth: Anthropic's compute demands surged by 80 times in the first quarter of 2026 alone, creating reliability strain on Claude Pro and Max users that had become public in April. The SpaceX deal effectively buys the company the headroom it needs to operate at frontier scale...
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