timef 05/19/2026
- OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic’s pre-training team techcrunch.com2026-05-19 23:43:04
Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic to work on pre-training. He previously co-founded and worked at OpenAI and led computer vision and AI at Tesla.
- The minimalist Light Phone teams up with Andrew Yang’s Noble Mobile, which pays you to stop doomscrolling techcrunch.com2026-05-19 23:37:17
"The Light Phone is designed to be used as little as possible," founder Joe Hollier told TechCrunch.
- Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages in an ongoing supply chain attack techcrunch.com2026-05-19 23:32:46
The attacks are part of a wider campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud, which has already compromised several open source projects and, in turn, developers and companies that use them.
- US cyber agency CISA exposed reams of passwords and cloud keys to the open web techcrunch.com2026-05-19 23:06:42
The federal cybersecurity agency left plaintext passwords in a spreadsheet uploaded to a public GitHub repository, per a report by independent journalist Brian Krebs.
- Apple announces Apple Intelligence powered accessibility feature updates techcrunch.com2026-05-19 22:01:07
Apple is introducing a feature to let Vision Pro control a compatible wheelchair with their eyes
- ‘Survivor’ stars Kyle Fraser and Kamilla Karthigesu introduce a goal-tracking app, Paprclip techcrunch.com2026-05-19 22:00:00
A new app from Survivor 48 winner Kyle Fraser and castmate Kamilla Karthigesu aims to turn goal tracking into a social experience, pairing users for accountability, daily challenges, and shared progress clips.
- Forget the feed: Status AI raises $17M to turn social media into interactive entertainment techcrunch.com2026-05-19 22:00:00
Interactive social media site Status announced Tuesday $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding, with investors including General Catalyst, YC, LightShed Ventures, and Abstract.
- Stilta raises $10.5M from a16z and YC to help companies rediscover the patents they forgot they had techcrunch.com2026-05-19 20:00:00
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.
- Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business techcrunch.com2026-05-19 18:00:00
Costs for solar panels are expected to drop another 30% in the coming decade, helping the tech cement its lead in energy markets.
- Theo Baker spent four years investigating Stanford. Before he leaves, here’s what he found. techcrunch.com2026-05-19 13:50:49
"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?"
- OSHA probing worker death at SpaceX’s Starbase site techcrunch.com2026-05-19 05:55:02
The death is the latest worker safety issue at the Starbase facility, which has a higher injury rate than all other SpaceX sites.
- SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required techcrunch.com2026-05-19 05:29:31
Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models. SandboxAQ is betting that the bigger obstacle is access, and that Claude solves it.
- Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare techcrunch.com2026-05-19 03:27:52
Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition.
- Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI techcrunch.com2026-05-19 01:34:43
Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.
- NYC Health and Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people techcrunch.com2026-05-19 00:32:33
The New York public healthcare system said hackers stole personal and medical data, and scans of biometrics — including fingerprints — in one of the largest recorded breaches of 2026.
