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
Leslie Picker
2026
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.
Thomas Claburn
2026
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.
Nikita Ostrovsky
2026
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.
@alexscroxton, Alex Scroxton
2026
19 May 2026
Google wants to compete with Anthropic’s Mythos
Google is making a big push into cybersecurity. At I/O, the company announced that it was inviting select groups of experts to test the API for CodeMender, an “AI agent for code security” it debuted last October.
Hayden Field
2026
19 May 2026
Google’s Response to OpenClaw’s 24/7 AI Agent
Gemini Spark is Google’s take on a steroided-out assistant agent that knows everything about you, announced as part of the company’s updates to its Gemini chatbot app at this year’s I/O developer conference.
@wired, Reece Rogers
2026
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
19 May 2026
Musk and Altman take their battle from court to Wall Street ahead of landmark IPOs
Elon Musk arrives to court at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building on April 30, 2026 in Oakland, California. Benjamin Fanjoy | Getty Images Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Monday, ending one round in the fight between the former friends and co-founders, and setting the stage for an even bigger battle as the billionaires gear up to lead potentially record-setting…
Ashley Capoot, Lora Kolodny
2026
