Claude's exploding & GPUs are going to space

Anthropic's Claude paid subscriptions surged to record levels in early 2025, fueled by effective Super Bowl marketing, a public DOD ethics dispute over military AI use, and compelling new developer features like Claude Code and Computer Use, though it still trails ChatGPT significantly in market share.

The article identifies five essential ChatGPT settings—Voice mode, Memory mode, Custom Instructions, Advanced Model Switching, and Data Controls—that most users overlook but can significantly improve personalization, productivity, and privacy when enabled.

TechCrunch

Starcloud raised $170M at unicorn valuation to build orbital data centers with GPUs, but the viability of space-based computing depends entirely on SpaceX's Starship achieving commercial operations and drastically lower launch costs by the late 2020s. The company faces competition from Google, Aethero, and potentially SpaceX itself, which has proposed deploying one million satellites for distributed compute.

Latent Space

Foundation models are creating a new role—the AI Engineer—who applies and productizes existing LLMs through software engineering rather than training models, potentially becoming the highest-demand engineering job of the decade as traditional ML workflows are disrupted by rapid API-based prototyping.

arXiv

HorizonMath benchmark tests AI on over 100 unsolved mathematical problems with automated verification, and GPT 5.4 Pro has already produced two potentially novel solutions that improve on published results, marking significant progress toward AI-driven mathematical discovery.