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May 19, 2026

Karpathy jumps to Anthropic

Karpathy jumps to Anthropic · TensorMax

Plus: NVIDIA launches Vera CPU, SpaceX eyes $75B IPO
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Daily AI Market Intelligence
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
2:45 PM ET · 2 min read
By the TensorMax editorial team  ·  Drawing from sources across the AI industry

Today's top story

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Amazon lays off 16,000 corporate jobs under Project Dawn to focus on AI and efficiency

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Catch up quick

  • Ukraine's drone usage has led to a 5:1 casualty rate against the Russian army
  • Anthropic's revenue grew 80 times in the first quarter
  • NVIDIA launches Vera, its first CPU built for agents
  • Shai-Hulud malware compromises 600 npm packages, including popular libraries like echarts-for-react and @antv/g2
  • Big Tech's $650 billion capex surge in 2026 drives demand for compute futures
  • SpaceX is preparing to file an IPO to raise up to $75 billion
  • Google secures $5B investment from Blackstone for US-based AI cloud company
  • Wall Street pours $5 trillion into AI infrastructure, data centers, and GPU financing
  • U.S. Cybersecurity Agency exposes digital keys on GitHub
  • OpenAI prevails in Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit, paving way for potential IPO
  • Jury rules against Elon Musk in his lawsuit against OpenAI, citing statute of limitations
  • Starlink crosses 10 million subscribers worldwide, with revenue reaching $11.4 billion and EBITDA margins of 63% in 2025
  • Two-thirds of customer cores in Azure run Linux, with Linux and Kubernetes powering Microsoft 365, GitHub, and OpenAI's ChatGPT
  • CME Group announces its own compute futures contracts, partnering with Silicon Data
  • OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

Also on the desk

  • Hitachi partners with Anthropic to deploy Claude AI across its 290,000 employees
  • Anthropic acquires Stainless, an SDK startup
  • EQT wins mandate to manage European Commission's €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund
  • NextEra Energy to acquire Dominion in a $67 billion all-stock transaction
  • Meta invests $200 billion in a massive AI data center in rural Louisiana
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