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2 articles First covered May 7, 2026, latest May 21, 2026

Lead image from the Axios story about Anthropic's $15B SpaceX compute deal

SpaceX's S-1 revealed who's paying for Colossus. Anthropic just locked in $45B through 2029.

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month for Colossus 1 and 2 capacity. The contract runs through May 2029 and books about 83% of SpaceX's revenue.

Cartoon Claude Code terminal flexing two muscular arms against a terracotta background

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Anthropic doubled Claude Code's limits by renting 220,000 GPUs from xAI

Anthropic doubled Claude Code's 5-hour limits, killed peak-hours throttling, and raised Opus API tiers. The capacity comes from xAI's Colossus 1, via a SpaceX deal.