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Anthropic is writing some very large checks to a familiar rival. SpaceX's IPO filing reveals that the AI company has agreed to pay one point two five billion dollars per month — that's fifteen billion annually — for access to Elon Musk's Colossus data centers in Memphis. It's a remarkable arrangement, given that Musk has been openly critical of Anthropic's parent ecosystem, and it tells you everything about how desperate the AI industry is for compute right now.
Meanwhile, GitHub is dealing with a serious breach after an employee installed a malicious Visual Studio Code extension, exposing thousands of internal repositories. The group behind the attack, known as TeamPCP, has reportedly demanded fifty thousand dollars to walk away. It's a reminder that even the platforms developers trust most are only as secure as the habits of the people using them.
And in a quieter corner of the recycling economy, artificial intelligence is being put to work sorting and recovering aluminum at a time when prices for the metal are up twenty percent. Startups are betting that smarter machines can unlock a domestic supply of critical materials that traditional recycling has always left on the table.
That's where things stand today. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
