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Musk called Anthropic 'evil' — now his data centres are helping its AI

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · · 781 words · By Una Hajdari
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Musk's SpaceX has leased its Colossus 1 supercomputer to Anthropic, giving Claude's maker a massive compute boost despite a previously bitter rivalry.

Claims checked 15
Techniques found 3
Topics 3

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What happened

Musk's SpaceX has leased its Colossus 1 supercomputer to Anthropic, giving Claude's maker a massive compute boost despite a previously bitter rivalry.

Why it matters

When Anthropic's chief product officer Ami Vora took the stage at the company's Code with Claude developer conference in San Francisco last week, those present likely expected updates on new models.

Common ground

Instead, Vora announced that Anthropic had signed a deal with SpaceX to take full control of the Colossus 1 data centre in Memphis, in a pairing that would have seemed unthinkable just a few months ago.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 3 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 90% confidence
Using words with strong emotional connotations to influence an audience.
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Name Calling / Labeling 85% confidence
Attaching a negative label to a person or group to reject them without evidence.
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Exaggeration / Hyperbole 70% confidence
Overstating facts or claims to create a stronger emotional response.
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Why it matters: Recognizing exaggeration / hyperbole helps readers compare the article's framing with the underlying facts and with coverage from other sources.

fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Musk has... along with Google and OpenAI, signed defence contracts with the Pentagon”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Google, OpenAI, and xAI (Musk) have signed or reached agreements for contracts with the Pentagon/Defense Department.
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web search NEUTRAL — Google and Elon Musk’s xAI have contracts with the Defense Department, and the Pentagon said earlier this week that it had reached an agreement to use xAI’s technology for classified operations. Googl…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/openai-agreeme…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alphabet Inc.’s Google, OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, and Elon Musk’s xAI—as part of a strategic initiative to accelerate the military’s adoption of advanced AI technologies. The announcement, made M…
https://www.tradingview.com/news/invezz:1889a394c094b:0-open…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Pentagon announces AI deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, and more — LLMs to be deployed on classified Department of War networks ‘for lawful operational use’.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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Claim 2: “Musk's xAI generated $107 million (€91m) in revenue for the quarter ending in September 2025”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding xAI's revenue for the quarter ending September 2025.
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Claim 3: “Musk's SpaceX has leased its Colossus 1 supercomputer to Anthropic”
CORROBORATED
Multiple independent web search results confirm that Anthropic signed a deal to lease the Colossus 1 supercomputer. While one source attributes the supercomputer to xAI and another to SpaceX, the core fact of the lease to Anthropic is reported across three distinct search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — xAI leases Colossus 1 supercomputer to Anthropic.Ranjan Roy: SpaceX's partnership with Anthropic boosts AI compute capabilities, growing skepticism about tech transformation, and the crucial need for …
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic signed Wednesday to lease 100% of SpaceX's 220,000-GPU Colossus 1 cluster, doubling Claude Code rate limits this month. The deal lands as SpaceX targets a $1.5 trillion IPO and consolidates …
https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-was-built-to-counter-mus…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Anthropic lease of the Colossus supercomputer with 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs is a powerful bullish signal for NVDA stock and the broader AI compute trade. It confirms that frontier AI labs continue to c…
https://www.kucoin.com/blog/anthropic-space-x-partnership-wi…
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Claim 4: “Anthropic, meanwhile, has reached an annualised revenue run rate of around $30 billion (€25.5bn), according to analyst estimates.”
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Claim 5: “Anthropic refused [Pentagon contracts] in February after previously signing deals in July 2025”
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Web search results explicitly state that Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Pentagon in July 2025 and subsequently faced a feud/refusal in February 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — In December 2025, Anthropic acquired Bun to improve the speed and stability of Claude Code.[23] The same month, Anthropic signed a multi-year, $200 million partnership with Snowflake Inc. to make Clau…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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web search NEUTRAL — February 25, 2026, 6:00 PM. In July 2025, San Francisco-based AI start-up Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Pentagon to provide the military with frontier AI technology.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/25/anthropic-pentagon-feud…
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Defense Department in July 2025. The contract had two red lines: no mass domestic surveillance of American citizens without judicial oversight, and no…
https://rawtext.io/power/pentagon-vs-anthropic-what-it-means…
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Claim 6: “Musk said he is comfortable leasing Colossus 1 to Anthropic partly because SpaceXAI had already moved its own training to Colossus 2.”
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Claim 7: “Anthropic has continuously refused to strip safety guardrails from Claude for use in autonomous weapons systems, including those being used in the ongoing Iran war.”
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Multiple sources, including Wikipedia and Euronews, report that Anthropic refused to remove safety guardrails regarding autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, leading to a dispute/cancellation with the DoD.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. Anthropic …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since January 2026, the United States Department of Defense has conflicted with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic over the use of its products for military purposes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic–United_States_Depart…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)
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Claim 8: “The deal gives Anthropic access to more than "more than 300 megawatts of new capacity [and] over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month"”
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Multiple web search results specifically mention the lease of the Colossus 1 cluster containing 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. While the specific megawatt figure is not explicitly in the snippets, the GPU count is consistently reported across multiple sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A large language model (LLM) is a neural network trained on a vast amount of text for natural language processing tasks, especially language generation. LLMs can generate, summarize, translate and par…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_language_model
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI Global, LLC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) and a nonprofit foundation, headquartered in San Franci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. Anthropic …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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Claim 9: “the Pentagon to since designate the company [Anthropic] a supply chain risk and bar it from military work”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the Pentagon designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk or barring it from military work.
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Claim 10: “Vora announced that Anthropic had signed a deal with SpaceX to take full control of the Colossus 1 data centre in Memphis”
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Web search results confirm Anthropic signed a deal to lease 100% of the Colossus 1 cluster. Wikipedia confirms Colossus is located in Memphis, Tennessee.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colossus is a supercomputer developed by xAI. Construction began in 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee; the system became operational in July 2024. It is currently believed to be the world's largest AI superc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)
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web search NEUTRAL — In November, Nvidia and Microsoft were expected to invest up to $15 billion in Anthropic, and Anthropic said it would buy $30 billion of computing capacity from Microsoft Azure running on Nvidia AI sy…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/
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Claim 11: “Grok... was launched during Musk's peak involvement with the Trump administration in 2025”
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The claim states Grok was launched in 2025. However, Wikipedia and other sources explicitly state Grok was launched in November 2023.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — From 2025 onwards, X (formerly Twitter)'s integrated chatbot, Grok, has allowed users to nonconsensually alter images of individuals, including minors, to show them in bikinis or transparent clothing,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_sexual_deepfake_scandal
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Grok () is a neologism coined by the American writer Robert A. Heinlein in his 1961 science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land. The Oxford English Dictionary summarizes the meaning of grok as "t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Grok is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by SpaceXAI. It was launched in November 2023 by Elon Musk as an initiative based on the large language model (LLM) of the same name. Gro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_(chatbot)
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Claim 12: “the chatbot [Grok] generated at least 1.8 million sexualised depictions of women over nine days, along with imagery of minors, triggering investigations by regulators across Europe, Asia and the United States [in early 2026]”
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Claim 13: “posting a net loss of $1.46 billion (€1.24bn) in the same period [quarter ending September 2025]”
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Claim 14: “Anthropic was founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei and a cohort of researchers who left OpenAI”
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Wikipedia and multiple other authoritative sources (Britannica, AI Wiki) explicitly confirm Anthropic was founded in 2021 by Dario and Daniela Amodei and former OpenAI researchers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. Anthropic …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniela Amodei (born 1987) is an American entrepreneur and the president of Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) company known for its Claude series of large language models. She co-founded Anth…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Amodei
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei
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Claim 15: “Musk added a notable caveat on X, writing that SpaceXAI reserves the "right to reclaim the compute" if Anthropic's AI "engages in actions that harm humanity."”
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