@tjrobertson52

It's been a big week in AI news, not that we've had a single slow week. In 2026, things are moving fast.

Elon Musk's X AI is going to start leasing Colossus 1 to Anthropic. SpaceX is already using Colossus 2, so Colossus 1 was just sitting there unused. This will solve Anthropic's biggest issue.

It's been heavily compute constrained. Apparently, Anthropic will have access to the additional compute starting this month.

They already announced higher rate limits on Claude's API effective immediately. Unfortunately, this only affects the API. If you're using a Claude monthly plan, you're still gonna hit your token limit at the same rate.

Now this only impacts the rate limit for the API. Tokens are still just as expensive. And if you're doing a monthly plan, you're gonna run out of tokens just as fast.

This move has some people speculating that Elon has given up on training a competitive model and will just be providing hardware to the other model makers. But that doesn't seem to be the case, at least to me. It seems like Elon still believes he's gonna be the first one to achieve AGI.

Anthropic's research arm, the Anthropic Institute, has announced we'll be devoting resources to research in how AI will impact the economy. Their aim is to answer questions like, what does it look like when a firm of three people can do the work it used to take 300 people?

And this seems like it's mostly a PR play from Anthropic, but I do think it's important that we're devoting resources to this kind of research.

And Google is internally testing their response to Opencl, an always-on AI agent powered by Gemini that can do work on your behalf, just like Opencl can have its own Gmail inbox, have access to Calendar and Docs and all other Google properties, and not just perform tasks when you ask it to, but actually proactively do tasks like a real team member would. We're calling it Remy, and I'm sure we'll be hearing a lot more about it soon because Google I/O is just a few weeks away.

Like many of you, I spend a lot of my time today figuring out how to position my business to take advantage of all these advancements we're seeing from AI. The wave is here, and if we're not riding it, we're getting left behind. For my part, I'll be continuing to share how we can best integrate AI into our businesses and, of course, rank higher in AI search.