AI News. May 19, 2026.

Intel plans to acquire AI chip startup Tenstorrent, per Bloomberg

Bloomberg@business

AI chip startup Tenstorrent is drawing early takeover interest from prospective buyers at a moment of renewed momentum for upstarts looking to challenge Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices

bloomberg.com

AI Chip Startup Tenstorrent Draws Takeover Interest From Intel, Qualcomm

9:45 PM · May 18, 2026 · 152K Views

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Ed Ludlow@EdLudlow

Intel looking at Tenstorrent. Report with @rngould

Bloomberg @business

AI chip startup Tenstorrent is drawing early takeover interest from prospective buyers at a moment of renewed momentum for upstarts looking to challenge Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices https://t.co/pksQuS7agN

10:35 PM · May 18, 2026 · 16.8K Views

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AEON raised $8M pre-seed funding round led by YZi labs

AEON.XYZ@AEON_Community

AEON was formed on one belief: when AI gains economic agency, a new settlement layer will be required. Today, with $8M raised led by @yzilabs, we’re building that standard: the foundational settlement layer for the emerging agentic economy and its evolving production relations.

12:01 PM · May 18, 2026 · 249K Views

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Cursor released Composer 2.5

Cursor@cursor_ai

Introducing Composer 2.5, our most powerful model yet. It's more intelligent, better at sustained work on long-running tasks, and more reliable at following complex instructions. For the next week, we’re doubling the included usage of the model.

4:43 PM · May 18, 2026 · 15.5M Views

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Anthropic acquired OpenAI and Meta SDK provider, Stainless

Anthropic@AnthropicAI

Anthropic is acquiring @StainlessAPI, an SDK and MCP server platform that has powered every Anthropic SDK since the earliest days of our API. Read more:

anthropic.com

Anthropic acquires Stainless

5:00 PM · May 18, 2026 · 813K Views

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Google and Blackstone are launching a new neocloud running TPUs

First Squawk@FirstSquawk

GOOGLE AND BLACKSTONE ARE LAUNCHING A NEW U.S.-BASED AI CLOUD COMPANY BACKED BY $5 BILLION IN EQUITY CAPITAL FROM BLACKSTONE, ACCORDING TO THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. THE VENTURE TARGETS 500 MEGAWATTS OF AI COMPUTING CAPACITY BY 2027, WITH GOOGLE VETERAN BENJAMIN TREYNOR SLOSS SET

12:03 AM · May 19, 2026 · 132K Views

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Rittenhouse Research@RHouseResearch

Google teaming up with Blackstone to create a new neocloud running TPUs, as most of the existing neoclouds (CoreWeave, Nebius, Crusoe, Lambda, etc.) have more or less pledged fealty to NVIDIA. While this obviously introduces more competition for $CRWV and $NBIS, it seems more

Negligible Capital @negligible_cap

*GOOGLE, BLACKSTONE TO CREATE NEW AI CLOUD COMPANY: WSJ $GOOG and $BX are planning on launching a neocloud company. $BX will provide $5B in equity and $GOOG will provide TPUs as well as software and services. The new company is shooting for 500MW online by 2027

12:17 AM · May 19, 2026 · 77.2K Views

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OpenAI and Dell are partnering to integrate Codex into Dell’s AI Factory

Polymarket Money@PolymarketMoney

OpenAI and $DELL are partnering to bring Codex into Dell’s AI Factory stack. Codex already has 4M+ weekly developers, and the next step is turning it into an enterprise agent layer for coding, reporting, lead follow-up and internal workflows.

7:15 PM · May 18, 2026 · 4.08K Views

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Microsoft executives reportedly warn GitHub is rapidly losing its AI coding edge as rivals like Cursor and Claude threaten both Copilot and GitHub’s core repo business.

The Information@theinformation

Microsoft executives are warning that GitHub’s AI lead is eroding fast. Rivals like Cursor and Claude Code now threaten both Copilot and GitHub’s core code repository. Read more: thein.fo/4wC4hgG

1:54 PM · May 18, 2026 · 6.54K Views

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Nous Research Hermes Kanban introduced a new automation feature that breaks down subtasks from a single prompt and automatically assigns the most suitable agents.

Teknium 🪽@Teknium

The Hermes Agent Kanban just got a big automation upgrade. Drop one prompt into the triage, and the orchestrator agent can take it from there - decomposing it into all the subtasks necessary and automatically assigning agent profiles that fit the specialization needed. You can

7:29 AM · May 18, 2026 · 161K Views

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Vercel has made all Firewall mitigations free, now covering DDoS, system-level, and custom rule protections while absorbing the compute and network costs of attacks and traffic mitigation.

Vercel Developers@vercel_dev

All firewall-mitigated traffic is now free on Vercel. Starting today, you aren't charged for requests that are denied, challenged, or rate-limited by Vercel Firewall. This extends free DDoS mitigation to rules you configure.

vercel.com

Firewall-mitigated traffic is free on Vercel - Vercel

1:30 AM · May 19, 2026 · 51.7K Views

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Browserbase launched Browse, an open-source CLI with a custom-tuned CDP driver for web navigation, alongside the Open Web Catalog — a marketplace of reusable website skills for AI agents.

Browserbase@browserbase

Introducing Browse.sh, the largest open-source catalog of skills to reliably perform any task on the internet. We've researched hundreds of sites to give your agents the playbook they need to navigate the web.

3:59 PM · May 18, 2026 · 181K Views

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X to launch Creator Connect, an AI-powered tool that matches brands with creators in real time based on campaign goals and audience trends

Business@XBusiness

https://t.co/yAGeHjmDUT

6:18 PM · May 18, 2026 · 229K Views

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