In February 2026, Elon Musk called Anthropic "misanthropic and evil." On May 6th, 2026, he handed them the entire Colossus 1 supercomputer — 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, 300+ megawatts of compute power — at an estimated $5-6 billion annual revenue. From "evil" to "no one set off my evil detector," nothing changed except one thing: the interest structure. This isn't a contradiction. This is power dynamics working exactly as they always do. There are no permanent enemies. Only permanent interests.

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