The Unlikely Anthropic & SpaceX Marriage, OpenAI Trial Revelations, AI Layoffs Or Cope?

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Join us for the Big Technology AI Summit on June, 18, 2026. Get your tickets here: summit.bigtechnology.com.... Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Anthropic gets SpaceX compute 2) Is this announcement real or marketing? 3) Anthropic increases rate limits with the new compute 4) Elon + Dario vs. Sam 5) Is this all IPO maneuvering? 6) Mythos is proving valuable for cybersecurity 7) Anthropic's demand is 80Xing 8) OpenAI's communication revealed at trial 9) Microsoft was mostly worried about comms for its OpenAI investment 10) Are AI layoffs a real thing or cope? 11) Are these layoffs happening because the AI *isn't working? --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack + Discord? Here’s 25% off for the first year: https://www.bigtechnology.com/subscribe?coupon=0843016b Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Anthropic and SpaceX partner up in an epic collaboration that could change the AI race.
0:05.6	We're awash in revelations from the Open AI trial, and our AI layoffs just cope.
0:11.9	That's coming up on a big technology podcast Friday edition right after this.
0:16.3	This week, I'm live at Knowledge 2026, ServiceNow's annual conference in Las Vegas, where Enterprise
0:22.4	AI moves from promise to production. I'm sitting down with Service Now's president and CPO Amit
0:27.4	Severi on the platform strategy powering it all, their people and technology leaders on what
0:31.7	AI means for the workforce, the engineering team behind ServiceNow's Nvidia partnership,
0:36.4	on what it really takes to ship AI at scale
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1:19.1	right. Welcome to Big Technology podcast Friday edition when we break down the news in our traditional
1:23.7	cool-headed and nuanced format. Well, it's tough to pick what to lead with this week
1:28.1	because we have lots of big news about the AI race, including news that Anthropic and SpaceX
1:34.0	will partner up where Anthropic will use SpaceX's capacity. We also have lots of stunning
1:39.3	revelations from the Open AI Musk trial and a number of big layoffs
1:44.5	happening in the tech industry.
1:45.9	Are they actually AI displacing people
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