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
Meta Employees Are Scrambling to Use Up Benefits Ahead of Layoffs
Ahead of Meta’s latest round of mass layoffs tomorrow , some employees are deserting offices, abandoning their work, and loading up on perks they might soon lose, several people at the company tell WIRED.
19 May 2026
RADAR Raises $170M, Hits $1B Valuation in AI Retail Push
RADAR has raised a massive $170 million Series B funding round. The fresh cash injection firmly drives the startup, based in New York City, into the exalted realm of unicorn companies, with the startup having a post-money valuation of $1 billion. The round was co-led by Gideon Strategic Partners and Nimble Partners with additional follow-on investor support from Align Ventures. The financing…
19 May 2026
‘Big Short’ investor Michael Burry warns of similarities between AI boom and dot-com bubble
Famed investor Michael Burry is warning that the current rush to pour billions of dollars into artificial intelligence bears eerie similarities to the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s.
