19 May 2026
SpaceX picks Goldman Sachs to lead record-breaking IPO, sources say
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attends a state banquet for President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2026. Brendan Smialowski | Afp | Getty Images
19 May 2026
Demis Hassabis said this might be the ‘foothills of the singularity.’ What?
After a couple of hours of apps and itineraries, Google’s big AI presentation turned philosophical.
19 May 2026
Google touts its tokenmaxxing and capex spending amid AI orgy
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and doting parent company Alphabet, opened its Google I/O developer conference with a celebration of token and capital expenditures. Tokens are the basic data exchange unit of AI models and Google has vastly increased its token processing to accommodate internal and external demand for AI inference.
19 May 2026
Musk’s Failed OpenAI Lawsuit Underscores xAI’s Struggles
On Monday, an Oakland jury took under two hours to unanimously reach a verdict dismissing Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.
19 May 2026
Vulnerability exploitation now primary origin of data breaches
Approximately 31% – close to a third – of all data breaches now begin with the exploitation of some form of software vulnerability by a malicious actor, surpassing credential theft as the number one network entry point for the first time.
19 May 2026
Sam Altman vs. Elon Musk: OpenAI CEO Claims Legal Victory Over Tesla Billionaire—but Whose Property Portfolio Is the Real Winner?
ChatGPT creator Sam Altman has claimed a courtroom victory against his OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk after a federal jury in California threw out a lawsuit in which the Tesla founder claimed that the artificial intelligence company had violated an agreement to operate solely as a nonprofit.
19 May 2026
Elon Musk said Sam Altman "stole" a non-profit — but the trial showed he had similar aims
The jury’s speedy decision to reject Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the other founders of OpenAI and Microsoft confirmed what we saw in the courtroom: Musk’s case was a weak one, in part because he waited so long to file it.
19 May 2026
Google’s AI strategy is finally coming into focus
In a major salvo in the AI race, Google announced on Tuesday a slew of new and updated products at its I/O developer conference. These ranged from tools that deploy personal AI agents to code generators, search tools, and a new “world model” for generating physically accurate video. Taken together, the releases paint a picture of Google’s current strategy for bringing AI to consumers and…
19 May 2026
SpaceX punts Starship V3 launch to May 21 as investigation opens into Starbase worker death
SpaceX is now targeting the evening of May 21 to launch the latest and largest version of its Starship megarocket for the first time By Claire Cameron edited by Jeanna Bryner
