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Tuesday, May 19, 2026
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★ Must ReadAnthropic 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.

Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris
404 Media

Britt Paris's new book 'Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up' tells the story of the physical internet, and how it can benefit people, not corporations.

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All of the updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s battle over OpenAI
The Verge AI

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. After nearly a month of the hearing that featured testimony from Musk, Altman, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman, former OpenAI board member and mother of several of Musk’s children Shivon Zilis, and a few others, the jury deliberated for a couple of hours before returning with a verdict, deciding to dismiss all charges due to the statute of limitations.

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Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.

The AI trial of the century ends with a whimper

and so there are some things we will never know

Agent Evaluation: A Detailed Guide

Best practices and common patterns for effectively evaluating AI agents...

★ Must ReadWe stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

Trending on Hacker News with 430 points and 192 comments.

★ Must ReadTrain and Run DFlash Speculative Decoding

A simple method to make your local model much faster

Anthropic co-founder to present AI encyclical alongside Pope Leo XIV

Trending on Hacker News with 131 points and 81 comments.

The Next War Is Already Here. The West Isn't Ready. — Yaroslav Azhnyuk, The Fourth Law & Guest Host Noah Smith, Noahpinion

Ukrainian drone founder Yaroslav Azhnyuk went from pet cameras to AI-guided weapons. He and guest host Noah Smith make the case that the West is asleep at the wheel.

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare
Kirsten Korosec, TechCrunch AI
Following: Elon loses the OpenAI trial
Ella Markianos, Platformer
All of the updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s battle over OpenAI
Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge AI