Musk can pull the plug on Anthropic whenever he wants — and it's legal

July 10, 2026

The SpaceX contract includes a clause allowing it to reclaim computing resources if Anthropic's models do something that "harms humanity," based on criteria presumably decided by Musk himself. This isn't an agreement between equals. It's an infrastructure provider that can pull the plug on its customer if it decides the customer misbehaved. And that customer is currently the best in the world at artificial intelligence.

The SpaceX contract includes a clause allowing it to reclaim computing resources if Anthropic’s models do something that “harms humanity,” based on criteria presumably decided by Musk himself. This isn’t an agreement between equals. It’s an infrastructure provider that can pull the plug on its customer if it decides the customer misbehaved. And that customer is currently the best in the world at artificial intelligence.

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