AI News for May 19, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Jury dismisses Musk's $134B lawsuit against OpenAI after 2 hours of deliberation: A nine-person federal jury in Oakland unanimously ruled against Elon Musk in his $134B lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, finding his claims were barred by the statute of limitations.
[NEWS] NextEra to acquire Dominion for $67B in largest US utility deal ever: NextEra Energy will buy Dominion Energy in a $67B all-stock deal, creating the world's largest regulated electric utility with a combined $420B enterprise value.
[NEWS] Anthropic acquires Stainless for reported $300M+: Anthropic acquired Stainless, the SDK and MCP server tooling startup whose software powers every official Anthropic SDK and is used by rivals including OpenAI, Google, Cloudflare, Replicate, and Runway.
[TOOLS] New Gurman report adds grammar checker, wallpapers, and Google training firewall to iOS 27 Siri picture: A new Bloomberg report from Mark Gurman reveals additional iOS 27 AI features beyond yesterday's Siri app leak: a grammar checker, new shortcut options, and custom AI-generated wallpapers.
[NEWS] Meta reassigns 7,000 workers to AI ahead of 10% layoffs: Meta is moving 7,000 employees into AI-related roles as part of a broader restructuring that will cut roughly 10% of its 78,000 workforce on Wednesday.
[NEWS] Google and Blackstone team up on AI cloud firm with in-house chips: Alphabet's Google agreed to create an AI cloud business with Blackstone, aiming to compete with CoreWeave in the rapidly expanding GPU-as-a-service market.
[TOOLS] Cursor Composer 2.5 matches Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 at a fraction of the cost: Cursor shipped Composer 2.5, an in-house AI coding model built on Moonshot's open-source Kimi K2.5 checkpoint and trained on 25x more synthetic tasks than its predecessor.
[NEWS] Anthropic to brief global financial regulators on Mythos cyber findings: Anthropic will brief the Financial Stability Board, the G20-level regulator chaired by Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey, on cyber vulnerabilities its Claude Mythos model has uncovered across the global financial system.
[NEWS] Pope Leo to issue first encyclical on AI alongside Anthropic co-founder: Pope Leo XIV will present his first papal encyclical, 'Magnifica Humanitas,' on May 25 at the Vatican, addressing the protection of human dignity in the age of AI.
[NEWS] Tenstorrent draws takeover interest from Intel and Qualcomm: AI chip startup Tenstorrent is fielding early takeover interest from prospective buyers including Intel and Qualcomm, both eager to mount a credible challenge to Nvidia and AMD in accelerator silicon.

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