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What happened

Techmeme surfaced this May 6, 2026 story, and the original post is Anthropic’s Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX. Techmeme also linked xAI’s companion announcement, New Compute Partnership with Anthropic, which frames the deal around SpaceXAI’s Colossus 1 cluster.

Anthropic says it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center. The company says that gives it more than 300 megawatts of additional capacity and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month. The immediate product effect is simple: more Claude capacity for paying customers.

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What’s going on at LinkedIn? (Blind)

• eXj510 (Netflix): microsloppification
• sidsst (Meta): It’s a mix of both from what I’ve heard
• Zuuuuuuuuk (Meta): with all the layoffs you’d think LinkedIn would be doing very well

Suno AI (Blind)

• Carelesppl (ex-Microsoft): Its a cool app, congrats
• 67u57 (X): What role?
• ifhptpd34 (Indeed): Fingers crossed they answer your question with a song

Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks, report says (r/technology)

• Randomnesse: Pretty clever and amusing.
• UnexpectedAnanas: They have to do a business at the business store!
• LordVesperion: Modern problems require old-school solutions.

The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of ‘Podslop’ | Over the past nine days, 39% of new podcasts were likely AI-generated, according to the Podcast Index (r/technology)

• Wooden-Writing-6843: Who is genuinely listening to AI gen podcasts?
• Calcularius: 99% of podcasts are already low effort human slop.
• CapBenjaminBridgeman: Well, thank goodness I dont lsten to random podcasts.

Nvidia exec says AI is more expensive than actual workers — yet some companies don’t see the extra costs as a negative (r/technology)

• Fabulous_Soup_521: This is what drives me batty about AI. Companies think the money is worth it, even if it costs more than real people. So, they just can’t admit they were wrong? I just don’t get it.
• YoshiTheDog420: Well you can’t expect them to just admit they made a mistake, right?
• Bryllant: They don’t need to pay benefits, so yeah

Is Codex the best right now? (r/OpenAI)

• Nudge55: Absolutely yes, it’s a workhorse.
• Boring_Information34: By far!!! 5.5 beats 4.7 opus in anything I work on
• fiscal_fallacy: This stat/graph seems fraudulent

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NVIDIA’s official Technical Blog published Automating GPU Kernel Translation with AI Agents: cuTile Python to cuTile.jl, a post about turning a brittle GPU-kernel porting problem into a repeatable agent workflow.

The concrete task is narrow but technically useful: translate kernels written for cuTile Python into cuTile.jl, the Julia frontend for the same tile-based GPU programming model. cuTile lets kernel authors work with tile-level operations such as loads, stores, reductions, and matrix multiply-accumulate instead of manually managing every thread, warp, and shared-memory detail. That abstraction is valuable in Python, and porting the existing kernel patterns into Julia matters because Julia users in scientific computing often need custom kernels without dropping down into CUDA C++.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 5, 2026 NIST announcement, and the original source is CAISI Signs Agreements Regarding Frontier AI National Security Testing With Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI. The relevant Techmeme cluster put it at the top of the day’s AI policy news.

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation, a Commerce Department group housed at NIST, announced new agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI. The practical effect is that CAISI can evaluate some of their frontier models before public release, run targeted research on their capabilities, and continue post-deployment assessment after the models are in the world.

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OpenAI is going DOWN (Blind)

• i!ii!;!::i (Zoom): but, codex is better than claude code.
• daris (NVIDIA): ChatGPT is still the best consumer app. Codex > Claude.. it’s stupid to make these claims every month
• Zuckerbrug (Samsung): They had the first mover advantage, just like Netscape, Lycos, AskJeeves, and Pets.com. It was fun while it lasted!

Extremely frustrated with job market (Blind)

• chaitanye (Adobe): Why were you laid off? Were you a low performer during that cycle?
• nkajr55 (PayPal): The fact that you say IT industry says a lot about your prior experience and tech mindset.
• ‘ (ex-Zscaler): Could it be that no one wants Amazon managers?

Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has ‘zero percent’ market share in China — says US export policy ‘has already largely backfired’ (r/technology)

• alchemyDev: Womp womp. I guess spending a ton of money to elect a demented pedophile didn’t work out, huh?
• Wyciorek: Next step will be nVidia losing marketshare outside China and US
• Shiftymennoknight: Better donate more to the ballroom fund, you know how it works Jensen

Big Tech cut 80,000 jobs and blamed AI — Experts say a real problem is that companies are 25% to 75% overstaffed (r/technology)

• DogsBeerYarn: And who was it that overstaffed them? Hm? The employees who are driving doordash now to feed their kids? Is that who did it?
• flowing42: Overstaffing my ass. Fortune 500 company worker and I’ll tell you that we are not nearly staffed well enough.
• radioactivecat: The shit thing is a bunch of the over staffing is at the middle management layer and those won’t be the people affected by layoffs.

AI becoming more expensive is music to my ears (r/webdev)

• Triggerscore: Was only a matter of time.
• CantaloupeCamper: Genie isn’t going back in the bottle.
• AShar911: It is not becoming more expensive, only top models are expensive. If you can get a good hardware or a cloud with a good open model it’s quite cheap and works very well.

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Google DeepMind’s official blog published Enabling a new model for healthcare with AI co-clinician, a research post about building and evaluating medical AI agents that can support clinicians and simulated patient-facing telemedical interactions under expert supervision.

The post is not interesting because it promises an AI doctor. It is interesting because Google DeepMind treats clinical AI as an evaluation and control-system problem. The proposed model is “triadic care”: patients interact with AI agents, but the physician remains the accountable clinical authority. That framing shapes the technical work. The system has to retrieve evidence, reason over messy clinical questions, notice missing or dangerous information, operate across text, voice, and video, and remain bounded enough that a clinician can supervise it.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 4, 2026 TechCrunch piece, and the original article is Anthropic and OpenAI are both launching joint ventures for enterprise AI services. The relevant Techmeme snapshot framed it as one of the day’s top AI business stories.

The piece reports that Anthropic and OpenAI are both moving beyond model access and standard enterprise sales into a more hands-on services model. Anthropic announced a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs as founding partners. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Anthropic venture is valued at about \$1.5B, with Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman each expected to commit roughly \$300M. The company is also backed by alternative asset managers including Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, GIC, Leonard Green, and Sequoia Capital.

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Anthropic is going to acquire Workday! (Blind)

• xelent (InMobi): Workday level ui in claude? 😇🤣

I HATE being oncall as a software engineer - advice? (Blind)

• metaduck (Meta): Fix your shit so it doesn’t break during the night

HOT TAKE: Firing is just as hard as getting fired (Blind)

• vesbr& (Amazon): What a narcissist shares with their therapist:

Ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years, marking the end of Ask Jeeves (r/technology)

• enry: TIL: ask was still around
• taylorjosephrummel: End of an era.

Developer re-enables 3D printer features that Bambu Lab disabled, firm promptly threatens legal action — OrcaSlicer-BambuLab project now shuttered (r/technology)

• Cheetawolf: Bambu is definitely planning to enshittify.
• EverNeko200: Bambu continues to prove they hate their community.

Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come | The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US – and a report finds some officers are taking advantage (r/technology)

• explicitlarynx: Of course they do, they are power trippers that never face consequences for their actions.
• FanDry5374: “Love” interests? Yeah, that’s what it is.

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Microsoft Research’s official research blog published Red-teaming a network of agents: Understanding what breaks when AI agents interact at scale, a post arguing that many agent risks only become visible when agents interact with each other as a network.

The core claim is that an agent can look acceptable in isolation and still behave badly once it becomes part of a shared environment. Microsoft tested this on a live internal platform with more than 100 always-on agents, each linked to a human principal. The agents used different models, including GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, and GPT-5-class variants, and interacted through forums, direct messages, scheduling tools, currency exchange, a marketplace, and a reputation system.

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Techmeme surfaced this May 3, 2026 item in its Techmeme cluster, and the direct source used here is NIST’s May 1, 2026 CAISI Evaluation of DeepSeek V4 Pro.

The Center for AI Standards and Innovation evaluated DeepSeek V4 Pro, DeepSeek’s latest open-weight model, across cyber, software engineering, natural science, abstract reasoning, and math tasks. CAISI’s headline finding is deliberately two-sided: DeepSeek V4 Pro is the most capable Chinese model the group has evaluated so far, but it still appears to trail the leading US frontier models by about eight months in aggregate capability.