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Friday, May 8 2026

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It's like the moment cloud storage got so cheap that hard drives became obsolete - AI running costs just dropped below the point where 'is it worth automating?' is a real question, which is why we're seeing a flurry of new open-source tools and frameworks. This lands on a trading desk as a chance to automate more routine analysis tasks, freeing up human traders to focus on the tricky stuff. Now you have to ask yourself: what's the one task in your workflow that you've been putting off automating because it seemed too expensive, and is it time to revisit that decision?

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[AINews] Anthropic-SpaceXai's 300MW/$5B/yr deal for Colossus I, ARR growth is 8000% annualized

Anthropic and SpaceX just announced a massive deal for Colossus I, a new AI data center that will require 300MW of power and cost $5 billion per year, with ARR growth of 8000% annualized. This changes the scale of investment in AI infrastructure, which is now seeing massive deals that are redefining the industry's growth prospects.

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