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Thursday, May 7, 2026
Anthropic lands 220K SpaceX GPUs, doubles Claude limits
Anthropic partnered with SpaceX for 220,000 GPUs and doubled Claude usage limits, while OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Instant, which cuts hallucinations by 52.5% with better personalization.

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Anthropic
Anthropic secured a compute deal with SpaceX providing 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs, enabling doubled usage limits for Claude Code and higher API rate limits as part of a massive infrastructure expansion exceeding $80 billion in total commitments across multiple cloud and hardware providers.
OpenAI
OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant becomes the new ChatGPT default, reducing hallucinations by 52.5% on critical prompts and delivering more concise, personalized responses with new transparency features showing what context shaped each answer.
Anthropic
Anthropic launched ten specialized AI agent templates for financial services that integrate with Microsoft 365 and major data providers, enabling banks and asset managers to automate time-intensive tasks like pitchbook building, KYC screening, and financial modeling. Major financial institutions report significant productivity gains, with some achieving 100% employee adoption.
Google Blog
Google released Multi-Token Prediction drafters for Gemma 4 that deliver up to 3x faster inference through speculative decoding, maintaining full output quality while dramatically reducing latency across edge devices to workstations.
CNBC
Anthropic has secured access to over 300 megawatts of compute capacity from SpaceXAI's Memphis data center to address Claude infrastructure strain, marking a surprising partnership given Musk's previous criticism of the company and coming as Anthropic pursues a $900 billion valuation.
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