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In a deal that raised more than a few eyebrows, Anthropic is partnering with SpaceX to ease compute constraints throttling its Claude AI models. The arrangement gives Anthropic access to SpaceX and xAI datacenter capacity, expanding rate limits for developers who've grown frustrated with availability and cost. Strange bedfellows, given Musk's competing ambitions in AI.
Meanwhile, the question of whether AI belongs in the exam room is getting harder to dodge. Leading medical experts say the latest AI reasoning models are outperforming specialist physicians on some of medicine's most complex diagnostic cases. Researchers are cautiously optimistic, though real concerns remain about how these systems handle uncertainty in clinical settings.
And in the electric vehicle space, Tesla is recalling every single one of its so-called budget Cybertruck models over fears the wheels could detach due to faulty brake rotors. Beyond the safety concern, the recall quietly revealed just how few of these vehicles Tesla actually managed to sell, a number that tells its own story about the truck's troubled run.
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