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Anthropic has secured a $5B/year agreement with SpaceX to access 300MW of compute at the Colossus I GPU cluster, adding over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within one month. The deal is already producing user-facing changes: Claude Code peak-hour throttling is eliminated, and Opus API rate limits are raised immediately.

Latent Space reports Anthropic's ARR is growing at a pace that annualizes to 8,000%, framing the SpaceX compute deal as a direct response to demand that existing capacity couldn't absorb. The 300MW figure alone puts this among the largest AI infrastructure commitments made by any lab.

An Anthropic product lead publicly specified the lab's near-term model development focus at Code w/ Claude 2026: deeper autonomous coding capability, extended context windows combined with persistent memory, and robust multi-agent coordination. This is the clearest public roadmap Anthropic has offered for Claude's next capabilities.

Multi-Token Prediction speculative decoding grafted onto Qwen 3.6 27B via an unmerged llama.cpp PR delivers a 2.5x throughput increase, with 262k context running on 48GB VRAM. The same configuration achieves 54 tokens/second on a V100 32GB — hardware from 2017.

Design Conductor 2.0, an autonomous agent using frontier April 2026 models, independently designed and built the TurboQuant inference accelerator in 80 hours. The paper claims an 80x capability improvement over prior agent-driven hardware design work.

A new paper documents that reward models used to train LLMs fail to capture socially desirable preferences across four categories: bias, safety, morality, and ethics. The failures are systematic, not edge-case, and exist in models currently deployed in production.