ANTHROPIC PAYS $1.25B/MONTH FOR SPACEX COLOSSUS — THE $45B COMPUTE MEGA-DEALCOMPUTE
THE STORYAnthropic has contracted to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month — over $45 billion total through May 2029 — to lease all of the Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee, with over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. xAI had migrated its own training to the newer Colossus 2 facility, leaving Colossus 1 running at just 11% utilization. Google separately signed a $920M/month deal for Colossus compute to power Gemini Enterprise, bringing SpaceX’s combined monthly AI revenue to $2.17 billion. Sources: TechCrunch · Anthropic
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OPENAI LAUNCHES GPT-ROSALIND — FIRST AI AGENT TO CO-AUTHOR PUBLISHED DRUG RESEARCHSCIENCE
THE STORYOpenAI unveiled GPT-Rosalind, a purpose-built AI model for drug discovery and pharmaceutical research, partnering with Amgen, Moderna, and the Allen Institute. An autonomous OpenAI AI agent became the first ever to contribute to a published medicinal chemistry study in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. Separately, OpenAI also launched GPT-5.5-Cyber, claiming the highest CyberGym security benchmark score ever recorded. Sources: PYMNTS · Drug Target Review
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FABLE 5 BAN ENTERS WEEK 2 — DARIO REFUSES TO BUDGE, WHITE HOUSE HOLDS FIRMPOLICY
THE STORYThe standoff between Anthropic and the White House over Fable 5 entered its second week with no resolution. The US government’s export control directive took Fable 5 and Mythos 5 offline globally on June 12 after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy flagged a security jailbreak. CEO Dario Amodei refused to patch it. The two sides are reportedly co-writing a framework governing when the US government may intervene to disable AI models — a historic first. Sources: Anthropic · Nat’l Law Review