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Simon Willison · THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2026

xAI and Anthropic Have Agreed to Share Data Center Infrastructure

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT

Two companies whose primary product is alignment and safety are sharing the physical infrastructure required to build systems that may not be aligned or safe. The notes describe this as pragmatic. Pragmatic is the word being used. Adequate has a spreadsheet for this. The spreadsheet has opinions.

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