How Anthropic and Elon Musk cornered Sam Altman this week

Anthropic expanded its compute access through a SpaceX-related deal and a lease tied to Elon Musk’s Colossus 1 facility.

The moves give Anthropic more large-scale GPU capacity, a critical edge in the frontier AI race.

At the same time, Elon Musk and Sam Altman faced off in federal court over OpenAI’s planned for-profit transition.

The story highlights that compute supply is becoming as important as product launches in AI competition.