19 May 2026
Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI founding member and inventor of ‘vibe coding,’ defects to Anthropic
Anthropic can’t seem to stop winning. After a string of blockbuster model releases, a new funding round reportedly in talks at a valuation approaching $1 trillion, and an annual run rate that’s nearly parabolic; it’s now hired one of OpenAI’s—its bitter competitor—most famous alumni.
Eva Roytburg
2026
19 May 2026
Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader
Andrej Karpathy, an artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded OpenAI before getting poached by Tesla, announced on Tuesday that he's joining Anthropic.
Ashley Capoot, Lora Kolodny
2026
18 May 2026
Google I/O primer: Alphabet's AI showcase is its chance to wow Wall Street
Alphabet 's stock is up 140% over the past year, with a cloud business that is growing faster than Amazon's and Microsoft's . But 18 months ago, the Google parent looked like it had spent a decade preparing for the artificial intelligence era, only to watch OpenAI define the market. Now, Wall Street is valuing Alphabet like one of the few companies positioned to profit from every layer of the…
MacKenzie Sigalos
2026
18 May 2026
Nvidia, CoreWeave And Palantir Are Driving AI Forward. Which Is The Top Stock Pick?
Nvidia, CoreWeave And Palantir At A Glance The Side-By-Side Comparison Of NVDA, CRWV And PLTR Stock Growth Outlook Comparison Analyst Opinions Risks To Consider Is Nvidia, CoreWeave Or Palantir The Better AI Stock Buy? Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Woman investor uses laptop and smartphone to analyzes charts. Nvidia, Palantir and CoreWeave are all AI stocks but offer potential investors very…
Peter Cohan
2026
18 May 2026
AI anger comes for Claude (Monet)
Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. Thousands of people on X just confidently explained why an AI-generated image was inferior to a real Monet. Just one problem: It WAS a real Monet. Conceptual artist SHL0MS’ latest experiment says less about AI art and more about the reflexive hostility baked into the tech, with critics lining up to trash an artwork the moment they thought a machine…
Zach Mink
2026
14 May 2026
OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone
Codex is going mobile. The coding tool — which OpenAI launched approximately a year ago — has now been integrated into the ChatGPT app, allowing users to monitor and manage their development workflows remotely.
Lucas Ropek
2026
14 May 2026
After 3.5 trillion guesses, a forgotten $400k Bitcoin wallet finally opened
Eleven years ago, an X user who goes by cprkrn changed the password on a Bitcoin wallet holding 5 BTC. He was stoned at the time. He forgot the new password by morning, and 5 BTC sat untouched while it grew to roughly $400,000. He had tried btcrecover, an open-source brute-force tool, more than once over the years and given up. Last week, he dumped his entire old college-era hard drive into…
@boingboing, Ellsworth Toohey
2026
14 May 2026
Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses
Microsoft first started opening up access to Claude Code in December, inviting thousands of its own developers to use Anthropic’s AI coding tool daily.
Tom Warren
2026
14 May 2026
Windows 11 and Microsoft Edge hacked at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026
On the first day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, security researchers collected $523,000 in cash awards after exploiting 24 unique zero-days.
Sergiu Gatlan
2026
