May 19, 2026

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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI: Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI co-founders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late. Read More

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare: Stainless, a New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs. Read More

Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here's what he found.: "There's a common refrain among [young] people in this world that it's easier to raise money for a startup right now than to get an internship. Which is remarkable, right?" Read More

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Morning Must-Reads

Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom: The open source project said hackers stole its codebase and threatened to publish its source code if the company did not pay. Read More

Apple announces Apple Intelligence powered accessibility feature updates: Apple is introducing a feature to let Vision Pro control a compatible wheelchair with their eyes Read More

OSHA probing worker death at SpaceX's Starbase site: The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites. Read More

Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had: Stilta announced Tuesday a $10 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors in the round include YC and operators from companies like OpenAI, Legora, and Lovable. Read More

SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required: Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that access is the bigger obstacle and that Claude solves it. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Kin Health raises $9M to build an AI notetaker for patients: The app is similar to a meeting notetaker — you can record doctor visits, and it will return an AI summary of the meeting, with the next steps, all of which you share with family and friends if you want to. Read More

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